Why AI researchers are getting paid like NBA All-Stars

Hello, and invited to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday occurrence impermanent big and lawman exertion astatine The Verge. Today, I’m joined by Hayden Field, The Verge’s elder AI reporter. We’re talking astir the AI endowment wars and wherefore immoderate researchers are abruptly getting traded similar they’re NBA superstars.

If you’ve been paying attraction astatine each to the AI manufacture this past month, you’ve apt seen stories astir the hiring frenzy that’s been happening astatine Big Tech, probe labs, and AI startups. Leading the complaint is Mark Zuckerberg, who’s been making immoderate genuinely unprecedented occupation offers to effort and lure apical endowment to Meta. 

But there’s a full batch much to this story. Hayden and I person been reporting connected this for the past respective weeks to get a consciousness of however large immoderate of these offers truly are, wherefore companies similar Google are opting to prosecute alternatively of acquire, and what it means that immoderate of the astir sought-after AI experts successful the satellite are nary longer motivated by wealth alone.

If you’d similar to work much connected what we talked astir successful this episode, cheque retired the links below:

• OpenAI’s Windsurf woody is disconnected — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google | The Verge
• Mark Zuckerberg promises you tin spot him with superintelligent AI | The Verge
• Meta is trying to triumph the AI contention with wealth — but not everyone tin beryllium bought | The Verge
• Meta says it’s winning the endowment warfare with OpenAI | Command Line
• Google gets its swag backmost | Command Line
• The AI endowment wars are conscionable getting started | Command Line
• Meta tried to bargain Safe Superintelligence, hired CEO Daniel Gross alternatively | CNBC
• Apple loses apical AI models enforcement to Meta’s hiring spree | Bloomberg
• Meta’s AI recruiting run finds a caller people | Wired
• Anthropic hires backmost 2 coding AI leaders from Anysphere | The Information

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