Despite making massive layoffs, Google is making special efforts to retain top AI researchers as rival OpenAI lures them with multi-million dollar salary packages. The company utilizes stock-based compensation.
Select researchers at Google’s DeepMind division, which is at the center of Google’s most important efforts, are being given large sums of money in restricted stock worth up to millions of dollars each, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. It is said that he received a subsidy. Sector leaders are increasingly turning to lesser-known sophisticated compensation programs to compete with OpenAI’s eye-popping offers, one of the people said.