Hello and Hello Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday guest and deputy editor The Verge. Hayden Field joins me today, The VergeSenior AI reporter. We are talking about the AI talent wars and why some researchers suddenly trade, as if NBA Supergows.
If you paid attention to the AI industry last month, you probably saw stories about the employment of madness that was happening in Gigantic Tech, Labs and Startups AI. Marking Mark Zuckerberg, who submitted really unprecedented job offers to try to lure the best talent for the finish.
But there is many more in this story. Hayden and I have been informed about it for several weeks to understand how large some of these offers are, why companies such as Google decide to employ instead of purchasing, and which means that some of the most sought after AI experts in the world are no longer motivated by money.
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