The day before the launch of the GPT-5, OPENAI CEO Altman itself It surprised employees by sending the company in the relaxation.
“As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we looked at the Comp for our technical teams, taking into account market traffic,” wrote Altman, according to a copy of the message that was made available to me. He announced that Opeli would give a “special one -off prize” to researchers and software engineers in several orgas, including applied engineering, scaling and security.
“We are trying to continue to increase the composition because we are doing better and better as a company,” he wrote. “But we wanted to be transparent in this matter because it is a new thing for us.” Then he thanked the employees for “perfect work on building Aga.”
According to my sources, the bonus amount for each qualifying employee will vary depending on the role and seniority. The highest payments will take place in the medium, one -digit millions for the most desirable OpenAI researchers, all of whom earn millions a year. Meanwhile, engineers will receive bonuses with an average of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The bonuses will be paid every quarter over the next two years, with the option of receiving money in OPENAI, cash or a mixture of both. About 1,000 employees or about a third of the full -time operai working force are qualified.
At the same time, OpenAI is preparing for permission to pay more employees to pay millions of its acquired shares to investors. Altman privately said that he expected that they would be able to sell at a much higher price of shares than the price of $ 274 granted in the OpenAI financing round at the beginning of this year, which valued the company at $ 300 billion. Bloomberg This week, it was reported that Opeli can be valued at $ 500 billion in the upcoming tender offer.
Openai spokesman refused to comment. Information For the first time, the news informed that research and engineering employees receive a one -time bonus, but Altman’s note is reported here for the first time.
Opeli has never offered such a width of employees so far. This movement emphasizes how violent talent wars for AI talents have become. Altman has lost a number of key researchers from the metal Shengjia ZhaoHe was just called the main scientist. Openai research director, Mark ChenHe was compared internally Mark Zuckerberg’s Cohesion to home invasion, while Altman told employees that “missionaries would defeat mercenaries.”
This is not only Zuckerberg, with which Altman must fight. My sources say so Elon Musk’s XAI also submits aggressive offers of luring the best OpenAI talents. In addition, ex-openai CTO Mira Murati Recently, she had several technical leaders of the company to assist to assume a competing laboratory, thinking of machines.
Without giving everyone OpenAi, the “special” bonus, Altman risks the breeding of jealousy among their employees who worked without a break during the prime minister this week and were omitted. For now, however, it seems that everyone is driving high on the GPT-5 edition. After the Thursday premiere event, I was told that Altman joined the employees at the grave Ecstatic Hour in Splash, the extensive sports bar at the Chase Center near the Openai headquarters in the center of San Francisco.