OpenAI, Meta, Google, X, Microsoft and other companies are competing to be the best in the AI market. As the race to become the best in the AI market is becoming fierce, the trend of attracting popular AI scientists, researchers, designers, engineers, cloud architects with huge sums of money has become like the transfer market of football and other professional sports.
Now, the 'transfer market' is open in the world football market. It is a gamble to attract players from different professional football leagues around the world and to bring impressive players into their clubs. It includes clubs from England, Spain, France, Germany, America and Saudi Arabia.
The latest example of this practice of extorting millions and millions of US dollars and attractive benefits and salaries is the famous player of Portugal, Cristiano Ronaldo. He has been playing professional football for a few years from Club Al-Nasser in Saudi Arabia. He surprised many experts in the world by signing a new contract worth about 400 million US dollars to stay in Saudi Arabia for the next two years.
What may be unknown to some people who are biting their tongues in the contract made by Ronaldo is that the transfer market in the style of football has now moved to the AI market. OpenAI, Meta, Google, X, Microsoft and other companies are competing to become the best in the AI market, and the trend of attracting popular AI scientists, researchers, designers, engineers, cloud architects with huge sums of money has become like the transfer market of football and other professional games. OpenAI's Sam Altman has openly accused Meta of spending tens of millions of dollars to lure its influential staff. To prevent this, OpenAI said that it is investing significantly in 'human resource retention'.
Although initially denied by Meta, it is revealed that the company has indeed brought in AI masters with tens of crores of 'signing bonus' and benefits of up to thirty crores. Just this week, the news that Meta has brought OpenAI's Tripit Bansal into the company with a signing amount of 100 million dollars (more than 13 billion rupees) is in the news. Not only Meta, Silicon Valley seems to have an increasing tendency to attract each other's employees with attractive 'transfer amount'. Companies like Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Salesforce and others are investing heavily in skilled technical manpower to expand their powerful AI infrastructure.
It is said that Mark Zuckerberg gave Bansal of Indian origin a 'signing amount' of $100 million to join the superintelligence unit of Meta (Facebook). Bansal has also posted on social media that he is connected with Meta. "Excited to join Meta," he wrote in X, "Superintelligence is not far away."
Bansal, who graduated from IIT Kanpur in India, joined OpenAI in 2022. There, he was described as an influential OpenAI researcher by technology news portal TechCrunch, who worked on the development of 'reinforcement learning and AI reasoning models'. He has done special research in Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning and Meta-Learning.
Altman, the head of chatGPT maker OpenAI, along with Bansal, gave META 100 million dollar joining bonus to high-level employees and researchers of various technology companies.
has been complaining about recruiting in his company. Meta, which wants to take a long leap in AI, recently announced that it will invest $14.3 billion in a company called "Scale AI" and appointed Alexander Wang, the 28-year-old founder of Scale, as the head of the "superintelligence" unit.
After Altman accused Meta of recruiting his employees, Meta responded that it was fake news. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth called Altman's claims "false" and exaggerated. Bosworth stated that there was no truth in the fact that everyone was offered a "package" of hundreds of dollars, but he expressed the intention that such an offer was made to some.
OpenAI also recently brought in Jony Ive, the famous designer who designed products like iPhone, iPad and MacBook. To bring Ive in, OpenAI bought his design startup company 'IO'. OpenAI bought the company for a total of $6.5 billion. Ive will now lead OpenAI's efforts to create new kinds of devices with AI-based technologies. It is expected that these devices will compete with smartphones in the future. "Johnny is the best designer in the world," says Altman, "Now we will start trying to create a new generation of AI technology devices." Its head is Wang of ScaleAI, while Meta continues to try to bring in more high-ranking employees from companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Along with Bansal from OpenAI, Hongyu Ren, Jiahui Yu, Suchao Bi, Huiwen Chang and Ji Lin are also sought to be brought to Meta. Although trying to be competitive is admirable, Altman noted that the trend of paying large signing amounts to recruit employees is not good.
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