from Hacker News

At least four Google AI researchers have joined OpenAI

by izzygonzalez on 2/15/23, 12:59 AM with 17 comments

• by sillysaurusx on 2/15/23, 2:42 AM

  The salaries for these positions are breathtaking. Over a million a year, from what I hear second-hand.

  Easily worth it for OpenAI. Sam is living up to everything pg always said he was.

• by Xcelerate on 2/15/23, 2:37 AM

  It seems like, at least initially, FB and Google had far superior tech and talent compared to OpenAI. But they were slow to move, and with the recent media hype and the giant support from Microsoft, the best people seem to be jumping ship quickly over there now. I wonder how this will play out.

• by RcouF1uZ4gsC on 2/15/23, 3:09 AM

  I wonder how much influence the Google layoffs had on the decision making.

  Back before the layoffs, Google was seen as a very stable and safe job, and any consideration of changing jobs would have to be balanced against that.

  Now Google has lost the perception, so it may cause people who otherwise would have stayed at Google to go to other companies.

• by impalallama on 2/15/23, 3:14 AM

  Not too surprising given the obscene cash injection they just gotten. It be a huge fumble if they didn't try to scoop up all the talent they could ever need.

• by ralph84 on 2/15/23, 4:59 AM

  It’s a lot easier to envision OpenAI having 100X upside from its current valuation than Google.