OpenAI “recalibrating comp” to keep Meta from poaching more AI talent
“I feel a visceral feeling right now, as if someone has broken into our home and stolen something,” Mark Chen, OpenAI’s chief research officer, said in a memo Saturday.
OpenAI is hoping to fight back against Meta, which is using its deep pockets to poach talent.
Wired reported that OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen said in a memo on Saturday that the ChatGPT maker is actively talking with workers who’ve received offers from Meta and trying to counter them.
“...we’ve been more proactive than ever before, we’re recalibrating comp, and we’re scoping out creative ways to recognize and reward top talent,” he wrote.
Meta is offering huge pay packages — some as high as $100 million — to build out its “superintelligence” AI team. As we’ve reported, so far a good chunk of that team has come from OpenAI. Meta has poached at least eight OpenAI researchers, including four more reported this weekend by The Information.
However desperate OpenAI is to retain talent, there seems to be a ceiling to what the company will offer to keep its researchers.
“While I’ll fight to keep every one of you, I won’t do so at the price of fairness to others,” Chen wrote.
