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Comment by Imustaskforhelp

2 days ago

They were willing to give up a 1 Million dollar a year comp and resigned in mass when the OpenAI non profit board had fired off Sam altman all because they wanted sam altman back in the moment. So there might be a precedent and I actually talked about it in the ask HN with the line "I remember the fact that OpenAI used to be actually non profit and how employees left OpenAI because the non-profit actually fired Sam Altman.".

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raw_anon_1111  2 days ago

They were “resigning” with the understanding that Microsoft was going to hire them and match their pay.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67484455

  • Imustaskforhelp  2 days ago

    Damn, you might be right that I missed this one but still. That was a move I had forgotten about but yeah, IIRC with the whole thing it was that Sam Altman would join Microsoft and would take all the people who resign from OpenAI.

    Then one thing which I am not understanding is why Meta or Google or Anthropic even wouldn't match the COMP. It's obvious that they can. Meta Poached 100 Million $ engineers and spent 30 Billion $ trying to essentially get a single Guy from ScaleAI (Sort of) to work for him.

    I don't understand why a company can't do the same thing now as well and even if not,

    I do feel like another point is that these guys would be able to get hired anyway with same salaries or very minor cut or maybe even more. What OpenAI did was not only just not take part in all of this but they first agreed and then backstabbed Anthropic/their own people with this deal and when they got caught, they themselves admit that optics don't look good.

    I don't quite understand with ALL of this, how OpenAI researchers in good faith could stay in that. They can easily get another job with similar Income.

    Another key point but gpt 5.3 instant dropped, their first example is long term projectiles... Comments on that HN thread there pointed out how with all of the situation in wars and this whole situation. This just feels like putting salt in wound situation to me (personally).

    To me, their gpt 5.3 drop looks like it might be smokescreen to quit the talks about the quitGPT or people cancelling chatgpt in large. There were comments talking about this as well on that HN thread.