Why Ai Researchers Are Getting Paid Like Nba All-stars

Hello, and invited to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday section impermanent big and lawman editor astatine The Verge. Today, I’m joined by Hayden Field, The Verge’s elder AI reporter. We’re talking astir nan AI talent wars and why immoderate researchers are abruptly getting traded for illustration they’re NBA superstars.

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

But there’s a full batch much to this story. Hayden and I person been reporting connected this for nan past respective weeks to get a consciousness of really large immoderate of these offers really are, why companies for illustration Google are opting to prosecute alternatively of acquire, and what it intends that immoderate of nan astir sought-after AI experts successful nan world are nary longer motivated by money alone.

If you’d for illustration to publication much connected what we talked astir successful this episode, cheque retired nan 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 pinch superintelligent AI | The Verge
• Meta is trying to triumph nan AI title pinch money — but not everyone tin beryllium bought | The Verge
• Meta says it’s winning nan talent warfare pinch OpenAI | Command Line
• Google gets its swag backmost | Command Line
• The AI talent wars are conscionable getting started | Command Line
• Meta tried to bargain Safe Superintelligence, hired CEO Daniel Gross alternatively | CNBC
• Apple loses apical AI models executive to Meta’s hiring spree | Bloomberg
• Meta’s AI recruiting run finds a caller target | Wired
• Anthropic hires backmost 2 coding AI leaders from Anysphere | The Information

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