Sam Altman once told Elon Musk he worried Google Deepmind was trying to 'kill it' before it launched by poaching top talent
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"Either we get the best people in the world or we will get whipped by Deepmind," Musk wrote, emphasizing the urgency of recruiting top talent in the competitive AI landscape.
Musk's emails reveal the high stakes of the talent wars at OpenAI, highlighting strategies like raising salaries to contend against aggressive offers from Google DeepMind.
Altman reported to the team that DeepMind was ready to make significant counteroffers, stating, "Sounds like deepmind is planning to go to war over this." This indicated a fierce competition for talent.
The correspondence illustrates how, from their foundation, OpenAI's leaders understood the necessity of attracting elite talent to fulfill their mission, stating, "Just got word...that deepmind is going to give everyone in openAI massive counteroffers."
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