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 announced today it has hired three senior computer vision and machine learning engineers from rival Google DeepMind, all of whom will work in a newly opened OpenAI office in Zurich, Switzerland. OpenAI executives told staff in an internal memo 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.
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. Hopping between companies is not uncommon for the most sought-after talent. Tim Brooks, for example, who previously co-led the research direction of OpenAI’s unreleased video generator, recently departed to work at DeepMind.
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