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OpenAI Poaches 3 Top Engineers From DeepMind
The new hires, all experts in computer vision, are the latest AI researchers to jump to a direct competitor in an intensively competitive talent market.
OpenAI executives told staff during an internal meeting on Tuesday that Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai will be joining the company to work on multimodal AI, artificial intelligence models capable of performing tasks in different mediums ranging from images to audio. While he worked at DeepMind, Beyer appears to have kept a close eye on the research that OpenAI was publishing and public controversies the company was embroiled in, which he frequently posted about to his more than 70,000 followers on X. As they race to develop the most advanced AI models, OpenAI and its rivals are intensely competing to hire a limited pool of top researchers from around the world, often offering them annual compensation packages worth close to seven figures or more.
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