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Sergey Brin Personally Urges Google Employee to Decline OpenAI Job Offer

According to reports, Sergey Brin, one of Google’s cofounders, personally called a worker who was contemplating switching to OpenAI. The Information said, claiming a “longtime AI researcher” as its source, that Sergey Brin offered more money on the call to persuade the worker to remain in the position. The anonymous source stated that they were friends with the Google employee and that Sergey Brin’s action, in competing with other Big Tech companies for AI expertise, is indicative of a wider trend. The poll, however, is still quite small. However, in the Big Tech, there is an unprecedented demand for superior AI expertise.

Mark Zuckerberg’s AI plan

Not only is Google trying to steal top personnel from each other with huge compensation, but so are other big tech businesses. CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg allegedly offered employment at Google’s DeepMind to AI researchers via personal correspondence, without requiring them to do an interview. Mark Zuckerberg revealed in January that Meta was holding a cache of Nvidia’s extremely desirable H100 chips. By the end of 2024, Meta will have over 340,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, he told The Verge.

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What Perplexity CEO said on AI jobs

Earlier, Aravind Srinivas, the founder and CEO of Perplexity, said that his company’s lack of GPUs was the reason he was unable to hire a Meta employee. “When I attempted to recruit a very experienced researcher from Meta, you know what they said? “Return to me once you’ve acquired 10,000 H100 GPUs,” he said.

Aravind Srinivas previously stated, “Don’t look at markets and decide, you know, don’t see, oh, the market wants a sales analyst product,” when discussing working in AI. I am going to construct it. Why design an AI for sales if you don’t even care about sales? The first person to use your product must be you, therefore create what you would use and what matters to you.”