Sam CEO of Openai Altman hits Mark Zuckerberg’s recent AI talent beating, Mark Zuckerberg. In a full-throat response sent to Openai researchers on Monday evening and acquired by Wired, Altman made his pitch for why staying at Openai is the only response for those aimed at building an artificial general intelligence, alluding that the company assesses compensation for the entire research organization.
He also rejected Meta’s promotional efforts, saying the company does, could lead to deep cultural problems in the way.
“We went from some nerds in the corner to the most interesting people in the TE industry industry (at least),” he wrote on Slack. “Twitter is toxic; meta is acting in a way that feels a little unpleasant; I guess things will become even thinner in the future. After I have burned and returned, I said that is not the thinnest thing that will happen in open history; certainly there is certainly not this either.”
The news comes on the heels of a major announcement of Zuckerberg. On Monday, the Meta -General Director sent a self To staff introducing the company’s new superintelligent team, which will be assisted by Alexandr Wang ahead of Scale Ai and Nat Friedman, who had previously led Github. The list of new employment people from Openaiincluding Shengjia Zhao, Shuchao Bi, Jiahui Yu, and Hongyu Ren. Openai Mark Chen’s Chief Research Officer Said staff That it felt that “someone broke into our home and stole something.”
Altman hit a different tone of the departures on his note on Monday.
“Meta assured some good people, but it is hard to exaggerate how much they didn’t get their best and had to go far enough from their list; they tried to recruit people for a very long time, and I lost a trace of how many people from here they tried to be their main scientist,” he wrote. “I’m proud of how our industry is missionary; of course there will always be some mercenaries.”
He added that “missionaries will beat mercenaries,” and noted that Openai evaluates compensation for the entire research organization. “I think there’s a lot more disadvantage to an open stock than Meta -stock,” he wrote. “But I think it is important that a huge disadvantage comes after a huge success; what Meta does, in my opinion, will lead to very deep cultural problems.
Altman then made his pitch for people to stay at Openai. “I have never been more confident in our research path,” he wrote. “We make an unprecedented bet on a computer, but I love we are doing it and I’m sure we will use it. Most importantly, I think we have the most special team and culture in the world.
“And maybe more important than that, we actually care about building action in a good way,” he added. “Other companies care more about this as an instrumental goal for some other mission. But this is our main thing, and always will be. Long after Meta has passed to its next taste of the week, or defending their social ditch, we will be here, day after day, year after year, understanding how to do what we do better than any other. Many other efforts will increase and fall.”
Many senior employees who worked at Meta followed in Slack with their own stories about why Openai’s culture is superior. “[T]Hey constantly turn its highest focus, “wrote one. Another said,” Yes, we are strange and strange, but that makes this place a magical cradle of innovation, “wrote one.” Openai is strange in the most magical way. We contain crowds. ”
