Memo: OpenAI's Mark Chen responds to Meta offers, says it feels like “someone has broken into our home and stolen something” and OpenAI is “recalibrating comp”
As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.
Wired Zoë Schiffer
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Discussion
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@rainesford
Rainesford Stauffer
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Wow yeah it's a really weird & crummy feeling when someone just decides to take your work, right? [embedded post]
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@notsiouxsie
@notsiouxsie
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Clearly no risk of any of these people or their products becoming self aware any time in the near future
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@stopmaggot
@stopmaggot
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Wahhhhh someone stole my stealing machine! 😭😭😭
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@djdunclive
Mr. Yuletide Grift
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I imagine that it's quite a challenge to find folks sympathetic to your complaints about being robbed when your entire business model is built off of robbery. [embedded post]
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@darthbluesky
@darthbluesky
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that feeling where a powerful wealthy corporation just takes something you thought was yours you say? [embedded post]
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@sirbenfro
James Oswald
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Oh no! Has someone stolen all your hard work so they can set up in competition to you? How terrible. www.wired.com/story/openai...
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@jodami
John O'Donnell
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Typical of a company who considers their employees as assets, and not living, breathing, human beings. — There's enough there to write a book about AI already.
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@edzitron.com
Ed Zitron
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OpenAI, using their massive funding, has repeatedly and deliberately used it to drive up the price of talent in A.I. so that it's virtually inaccessible if you're not equally funded. And this memo honestly shows that OpenAI feels exposed
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@hunterwalk.com
@hunterwalk.com
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Reminds me of peak GOOG/FB talent battles. Some folks I know got millions and millions of dollars just for staying/going [embedded post]
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@katie-drummond
Katie Drummond
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NEW: In a forceful memo, OpenAI's chief research officer has responded to Meta poaching the company's employees: — “Someone has broken into our home.” — By @zoeschiffer.bsky.social — www.wired.com/story/openai...
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@markriedl
Mark Riedl
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University presidents say they are “recalibrating comp. Please trust that we haven't been sitting idly by.” — Just kidding. — www.wired.com/story/openai...
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@drdoofenschmirtz
@drdoofenschmirtz
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What, now they don't like the free market?
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@leahfeiger
Leah Feiger
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“I feel a visceral feeling right now, as if someone has broken into our home and stolen something,” the chief research officer at OpenAI wrote on Slack about the company going up against Meta for talent. “Please trust that we haven't been sitting idly by.” — scoop from @zoesch…
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@zoeschiffer
Zoë Schiffer
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Scoop: OpenAI leadership sent a forceful note about Meta's recruiting efforts in an internal memo to staff yesterday. The company is recalibrating comp and going head to head with the social giant: www.wired.com/story/openai...
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@kimmonismus
@kimmonismus
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Even OpenAI employees confirm the extent of the loss of reserachers to Meta. [image]
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@bgurley
Bill Gurley
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The company that was already planning to lose $7b this year, is “reevaluating comp” to be more aggressive. Put that in perspective. 🤠🥳😎🙏 https://www.wired.com/...
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@signulll
@signulll
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so why the hell would idealistic leading researchers join meta of all places besides pure cash? i think zuck's pitch likely includes: - data, more human behavioral data than any other entity. it's the closest proxy to “training on humanity” without breaking laws. -
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@morqon
Morgan
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mark chen, openai's chief research officer, describes the visceral feeling of zuck's raids: “as if someone has broken into our home and stolen something” [image]
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
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Google vs Facebook Uber vs Airbnb OpenAI vs Meta three different eras of the valley, same absurd compensation wars, but at VERY different multiples [image]
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@bonybean
Bony Bean
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OpenAI leadership addresses rising talent competition as Mark Zuckerberg attracts top researchers to Meta. In an internal memo, OpenAI executives reveal plans to recalibrate compensation packages to retain their best minds. Explore the full story here: https://www.wired.com/...
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@bonybean
Bony Bean
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As Mark Zuckerberg recruits top talent from OpenAI, executives express concern over internal changes and compensation strategies in a recent memo. Discover how this rivalry is reshaping the landscape of AI leadership. Read more here: https://www.wired.com/...
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@signulll
@signulll
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this is a high tier psyop from sam. he's talking directly to the market. by floating a number like $100m: - he sets an anchor so absurd that anything meta offers now feels cheap. - he forces meta to either deny or match, both of which hurt them. - he gives his own employees a…
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r/OpenAI
r
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OpenAI has lost a lot of their S and A tier Generative AI talent to Meta within a month
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r/singularity
r
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OpenAi scrambling to stop the bleeding of talent