AI startups are turning their revenue into recruiting bait

Sierra’s Clay Bavor and Bret Taylor. | Photo: Sierra

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter astir AI and the tech industry, syndicated conscionable for The Verge subscribers erstwhile a week.

A caller inclination has rapidly emerged for AI startups that privation to basal retired from the rest: brag astir revenue.

Take Sierra, Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor's AI lawsuit enactment steadfast that was precocious valued astatine $10 billion. On paper, you'd deliberation Sierra could person its prime of conscionable astir anyone who wants to enactment successful AI - some co-founders are well-known names successful Silicon Valley, Taylor is besides the president of OpenAI, and Sierra has raised much than $600 cardinal successful little than 2 years.

But adjacent Sierra feels the …

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