Sam Altman says the AI talent war is a bet that a ‘medium-sized handful of people’ will make superintelligence breakthroughs

• In the middle of the fierce war for AI abilityTechnology giants offer astronomical amounts to attract a small pool of the best engineers from competitors. Openai CEO Sam Altman expects these geniuses to remain intense, but estimates that there are “thousands of people” who can make key discoveries that may come to mind in super -Supintalligigence.

The amounts of money offered to rent AI genius do not mind like technology giants. Meta– Microsoft– Google And Openai is fighting in a small talent pool in the races to get the next breakthrough.

And it doesn’t seem to relax in the near future.

“Certainly the most intense talent market I’ve ever seen in my career,” Openai CEO Sam Altman told CNBC on Friday. “But if you think that we spend the economic value and calculation created by these people, you know, maybe the Sunday remains like this. I’m not exactly sure what will happen, but now a small number of people are a crazy intensive comp.”

Andrew Sorkin from CNBC, exactly what exactly what this group people know how small and others do not do.

Altman, “betting, hope, they know how to discover super-superior ideas-you know a handful of algorithmic ideas and you know, will be a medium-sized person who will solve them,” he said.

This helps to explain that companies are willing to spend their ability to miss AI, with an offer. 1 billion dollars according to reported.

Altman said in June Meta was making giant offers to many people in our team, and some of them are “100 million dollar signature bonus and more than that [in] Compensation per year. “

Meta Making a scale of 14.3 billion dollars And he hired Alexandr Wang, the CEO of the initiative, for a super team.

While the enormous heats were thrown into the best engineers, Altman predicted that the number of people who are smart enough to make super -siper breakthroughs was actually much, much larger.

“You know that people decide that some companies in the field will go after a few bright names, CN “I think there are thousands of people who probably find tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people who can do this kind of work.”

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