51 h. ago Sam Altman: Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Is Trying to Lure Away OpenAI Brains with Bonuses of *$100 Million*

According to OpenAI boss Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is offered senior OpenAI employees signing bonuses of up to $100 million along with even larger annual compensation packages, to lure away top AI talent from the ChatGPT developer. The post Sam Altman: Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Is Trying to Lure Away OpenAI Brains with Bonuses of *$100 Million* appeared first on Breitbart.

Economics

58 h. ago Meta offered $100 mn bonuses to poach OpenAI employees: CEO Altman

Meta offered $100 million bonuses to OpenAI employees in an unsuccessful bid to poach the ChatGPT maker's talent and strengthen its own generative AI teams, the startup's CEO, Sam Altman, has said.

Society

68 h. ago Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI’s talent with $100M offers

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on something of a hiring spree lately, trying to staff up Meta’s new superintelligence team with top-tier AI researchers from competing labs. To work on a team led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and at a desk physically near Zuckerberg, Meta has reportedly offered employees from OpenAI […]

Politics

2 w. ago Barry Diller Invented Prestige TV. Then He Conquered the Internet

The mogul behind Fox, Expedia, and Tinder opens up about Steve Jobs—and his close friend Sam Altman.

Politics

2 w. ago Sam Altman biographer Keach Hagey explains why the OpenAI CEO was ‘born for this moment’

In “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future,” Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey examines our AI-obsessed moment through one of its key figures — Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Hagey begins with Altman’s Midwest childhood, then takes readers through his career at startup Loopt, accelerator Y Combinator, […]

Politics

3 w. ago How the Loudest Voices in AI Went From ‘Regulate Us’ to ‘Unleash Us’

Two years after Sam Altman pitched Congress on AI guardrails, he's back in Washington with a new message: To beat China, invest in OpenAI.

Politics

3 w. ago Instacart appoints chief business officer Chris Rogers as new CEO

Instacart announced on Wednesday that its chief business officer, Chris Rogers, has been appointed as the company’s new CEO. The appointment is effective August 15. Rogers will also join Instacart’s Board of Directors. The announcement comes a few weeks after Instacart CEO Fidji Simo shared that she’s stepping down to join OpenAI as CEO of Applications. Simo […]

Events

3 w. ago The real estate of Open AI CEO Sam Altman: From a San Francisco ‘lemon’ to a Hawaii mansion

The real estate of Open AI CEO Sam Altman: From a San Francisco ‘lemon’ to a Hawaii mansion  MarketWatch

Politics

4 w. ago Klarna CEO and Sutter Hill take victory lap after Jony Ive’s OpenAI deal

Hours after Sam Altman and Jony Ive announced on Wednesday that OpenAI was buying Ive’s company, io, in an all-stock transaction valued at $6.5 billion, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski posted a surprising message on X.  Siemiatkowski’s family investment office, Flat Capital, had bought shares in io six months earlier, he said. Since this is an […]

Politics

4 w. ago Inside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's $124 Million Property Portfolio

Inside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's $124 Million Property Portfolio  Realtor.com

Society

4 w. ago OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Wants to Put an AI 'Companion Device' in Every Home

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has unveiled to employees the company's ambitious plans to develop and ship 100 million AI "companion devices," created in collaboration with former Apple designer Jony Ive. OpenAI acquired Ive's company "io" to build AI devices Altman hopes will soon be in every home. The post OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Wants to Put an AI ‘Companion Device’ in Every Home appeared first on Breitbart.

Politics

last month Jony Ive to lead OpenAI’s design work following $6.5B acquisition of his company

Famed Apple product designer Jony Ive will now lead creative and design work at OpenAI, the result on an unusual deal announced on Wednesday. OpenAI is acquiring io, the device startup that CEO Sam Altman and Ive have quietly been working on for two years, in a deal that values that startup at $6.5 billion, […]

Politics

last month The Time Sam Altman Asked for a Countersurveillance Audit of OpenAI

In her new book Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao chronicles the anxieties around the OpenAI office in its early days.

Politics