Does OpenAI overpay employees?
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, filed a 107-page complaint against OpenAI in November, accusing the ChatGPT maker of “aggressively recruiting employees with offers of lavish compensation” and spending “$1.5 billion on personnel for just 1,500 employees.” The actual number of employees OpenAI has is unclear: According to the employee database RocketReach, OpenAI has 4,768 staff members.
Musk alleges that OpenAI has tried to reduce competition by “offering vastly inflated compensation” to bring in more AI talent than it needs to prevent competitors from hiring those people.
So, what does OpenAI’s compensation look like, and is it really as “lavish” or “inflated” as Musk makes it out to
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