One day before the start of GPT 5, CEO of Openi Sam Altman Taking a message in the company’s slack, the employees were surprised.
“As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we are watching our technical teams in the market in view of the movement in the market,” Altman wrote according to a copy of a shared message with me. He announced that a handful of orgs would give researchers and software engineers a “special one -time award”, which includes applied engineering, scaling and safety.
He wrote, “We plan to continue a lot of work because we continue to work better and better as a company.” “But we wanted to be transparent about it because it’s something new to us.” He then thanked the employees for their “good work towards the construction of AGI”.
According to my sources, the amount of bonuses for each qualifying employee will be different on the basis of character and seniority. For the most favorable researchers of Openi, the highest payment will be in the mid -digits millions, all of which are already earning millions every year. In the meantime, engineers are expected to receive an average of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bonuses. In the next two years, a bonus will be paid every quarter, which will have the option to receive money in the open stock, cash, or both. About 1,000 employees, or one -third of the full -time workforce of the open, qualify.
At the same time, Openi is preparing for more and more employees to give millions of their storage stocks to investors for investors. Ultman privately said he expects he can sell at a price more than $ 274 in the open -funding round earlier this year, costing $ 300 billion. Bloomberg This week it was reported that openness could be worth $ 500 billion at the next tender offer.
A spokesman for the Openi refused to comment. Information Earlier, the news reported that research and engineering employees are getting a time bonus, but the Altman’s memo is being reported for the first time.
Open has never offered such payments to such employees before. The move has highlighted how tight talent wars have been for AI talent. In recent weeks, Altman has lost a string of key researchers from Meta, where one of the Chat GPT creators, Shengjia XiaoOnly the chief scientist was nominated. Openai’s Chief Research Officer, Mark chinHas been compared internally Mark Zuckerberg’s Illegal victims due to domestic attack, while Altman has told employees that “missionaries have defeated tenants.”
It is not just Zuckerberg with which the opposite has to compete. My sources say Elon Musk’s Zee has also been offering aggressive offers to attract the highest capabilities of Openi. In addition, the former Openi CTO My dread Recently, many of the company’s technical leaders helped to start thinking machines, to help start their rival lab.
By not giving all the “special” bonuses to the Open, the Altman puts the risk of giving birth to jealousy among its employees, who worked and released on this week’s launches. For now, it seems that everyone rises to the height of the GPT5’s Bozi release. After Thursday’s starting program, I was told that a wide -ranging sports bar at the Chase Center near the Openi headquarters in the Altman city, San Francisco, joined the employees at a celebration at the Splush.
