OpenAI gives some employees a ‘special’ multimillion-dollar bonus

The time earlier the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman amazed employees with a connection successful the company's Slack.

"As we mentioned a fewer weeks ago, we person been looking astatine comp for our method teams fixed the question successful the market," wrote Altman, according to a transcript of the connection that was shared with me. He announced that OpenAI would springiness a "special one-time award" to researchers and bundle engineers successful a fistful of orgs, including applied engineering, scaling, and safety.

"We precise overmuch mean to support expanding comp arsenic we support doing amended and amended arsenic a company," helium wrote. "But we wanted to beryllium transparent astir this 1 since …

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