Comment by 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.
So they are concerned with the morality of OpenAIs use of AI and are going to work for Google or Facebook?
Facebook absolutely sucks I am not saying that it doesn't. I agree with you on that one.
But what I am saying is that Google might be better in that regards given that they didn't try to pester in and backstab like how OpenAI did. The bar is low but yeah...
That being said, even if these weren't these companies. To tell you the weirdness of the scale we are in here. A company spent 80 million $ on Ai.com and then their budget of where the site was hosted was free cf worker tier...
So a lot of market is essentially just kind of weird even now, This might be the biggest move by any AI company and the best investment to hire OpenAI employees en-scale. Perhaps Anthropic can do that too as I mentioned it earlier.
Imagine a company, which gave a place of employment and used talent of the engineers whose conscience denied OpenAI and the ones who wrote notdivided.org
These companies absolutely exist imo and as such, Money isn't a concern to OpenAI employees and neither should it be.
Atleast that's my opinion. Training and GPU costs for AI companies cost in magnitudes of several millions. To give a few several million dollars to get some good AI researchers doesn't feel so far fetched to me.
As such OpenAI employees shouldn't be worried about money. And they do hold leverage over OpenAI far more.
Atleast that's my opinion but I am curious to hear yours.