OpenAI’s decision to fire CEO Sam Altman may have put the company’s future in jeopardy.
Reportedly, a lion’s share of its employees have threatened to walkout unless the ousting is reversed. Complicating matters further, a number of executives from big tech orgnanizations have offered jobs to employees considering leaving.
To my partners at OpenAI: We have seen your petition and appreciate your desire potentially to join Sam Altman at Microsoft’s new AI Research Lab. Know that if needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation and advances our collective mission.
Salesforce will match any OpenAI researcher who has tendered their resignation full cash & equity OTE to immediately join our Salesforce Einstein Trusted AI research team under Silvio Savarese. Send me your cv directly to [email protected]. Einstein is the most successful… pic.twitter.com/1RXoc9ekeo
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott and Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff have offered to match the compensation of any OpenAI employees looking to jump ship while team leaders at both Meta's FAIR and Nvidia have solicited resumes and offered to place former OpenAI employees in their divisions.
My team at NVIDIA is hiring. We you all from OpenAI. Engineers, researchers, product team, alike. Email me at [email protected]. DM is open too. NVIDIA has warm GPUs for you on a cold winter night like this, fresh out of the oven.
I do research on AI agents. Gaming+AI,… pic.twitter.com/fVlUgSrsRc
I'm really sorry to hear what's happening to our OpenAI friends. Our team at FAIR is actively hiring for our mixed-modal LLM team across the whole pipeline. Please reach out to me if you're interested.
The outpouring of support comes on the heels of a rollercoaster 12
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