Annual Salary of 13 Billion Won, Come Here: The US AI Talent Battle

Soaring Salaries of AI Engineers
OpenAI-Google Battle to Recruit AI Talent

OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT and a leading player in artificial intelligence (AI) technology, and global big tech company Google are fiercely competing to recruit AI engineers. It is reported that they are offering huge salaries to attract the best talent.

OpenAI Targets Google's 'Gemini' Team Members

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On the 13th (local time), IT specialized media The Information reported that OpenAI has recently been making efforts to recruit top researchers from Google.

To this end, OpenAI is reportedly offering multimillion-dollar salaries, including stocks, along with the best technical resources such as AI accelerator chips.

The media reported that Google's top engineers can receive salary packages ranging from $5 million (about 6.6 billion KRW) to $10 million (about 13.2 billion KRW). In particular, OpenAI is said to be targeting members of Google's 'Gemini' team. Scheduled for release at the end of this year, Gemini is Google's next-generation large language model (LLM) and is considered a rival to OpenAI's 'GPT-4.'

OpenAI's 'Superalignment' Team... Salaries Up to 600 Million KRW

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Earlier, OpenAI announced in July that it had launched a new research organization called the 'Superalignment' team to ensure human safety in AI technology development.

At that time, OpenAI stated on its blog, "The immense power of superintelligence could incapacitate humanity and cause extinction, but currently, there is no solution to control or regulate superintelligent AI and prevent it from acting arbitrarily. To manage AI systems smarter than us, breakthrough progress in alignment research is necessary."

The head of this team, Jan Leike, said in August that they are hiring research engineers, scientists, and managers. The job postings for engineers in this organization specify salaries ranging from $245,000 (about 300 million KRW) to $450,000 (about 600 million KRW), with total compensation including stocks and other benefits.

Some Google and Meta Employees Move to OpenAI

OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, has already recruited talent from Google and Meta to accelerate AI chatbot development. At the time of ChatGPT's launch in November last year, five former Google researchers were listed in OpenAI's blog post.

According to the U.S. search company Punks & Pinstripes, as of February, OpenAI employs at least 93 former employees from Google and Meta, including about 59 former Google employees and about 34 former Meta employees.

Google is also reported to have recruited researchers from OpenAI this year. However, it is said that the salaries offered do not match those proposed by OpenAI.

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