[ad_1] Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company continues to attract top AI talent, brushing off concerns about the ongoing AI talent war in Silicon Valley, where top tech companies are poaching talent from each other to stay ahead in the intensifying AI race. During Alphabet’s second-quarter earnings call, Pichai said Google has seen such […]
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[ad_1] Thinking Machines Lab, the artificial intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, said on Tuesday it has raised about $2 billion at a valuation of $12 billion in a funding round led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. The fundraise also saw participation from AI chip giant Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, AMD […]
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[ad_1] The AI talent raid seems to be intensifying. Google has now onboarded several key members from Windsurf, a startup that works on AI code generation. Varun Mohan, co-founder and CEO of Windsurf, has been brought in along with co-founder Douglas Chen and other senior research and development staff from the company. Talking about the […]
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[ad_1] In the latest AI talent raid, OpenAI has reportedly hired four experienced software engineers, including a senior executive from Elon Musk-owned Tesla. David Lau, the former vice president of software engineering at Tesla, is all set to join OpenAI’s scaling team led by OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, according to a report by Wired. Uday […]
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[ad_1] Big tech companies seem to be witnessing unprecedented poaching of talent within the industry. A week after Meta poached top AI researchers from rival OpenAI, Apple seems to have lost one of its top AI researchers to Meta. Ruoming Pang, who is said to be one of Apple’s top executives working on AI, has […]
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[ad_1] The rift between Meta and OpenAI seems to be far from over. Meta recently released its list of AI researchers that were poached from OpenAI and Google’s DeepMind. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who had earlier expressed his displeasure with Meta’s transgressions, seems to have been hitting back. According to a report in Wired, Altman, […]
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[ad_1] Days after OpenAI’s chief researcher likened Meta’s aggressive poaching to a home burglary, the social media giant has released a list of names and bios of recently hired employees who previously held roles at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. The poached AI researchers will be part of Meta’s newly formed artificial superintelligence lab that […]
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[ad_1] OpenAI has recruited several employees from Crossing Minds, the startup that develops AI recommendation systems, said in an announcement on Thursday, June 30. “Joining OpenAI allows us to bring our work — and our values — into a mission we deeply respect: to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We’re thrilled to […]
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[ad_1] In April, Mark Zuckerberg’s lofty plans for the future of artificial intelligence crashed into reality. Weeks earlier, the 41-year-old CEO of Meta had publicly boasted that his company’s new AI model, which would power the latest chatbots and other cutting-edge experiments, would be a “beast.” Internally, Zuckerberg told employees that he wanted it to […]
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[ad_1] In Silicon Valley, what matters most is staying ahead of the competition. If you are Apple or Meta and find yourself short on talent or unable to build the technology in-house, the typical approach is to spend big. That usually means acquiring a successful company, bringing in the team behind the product, and either […]
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