This is how much salaries Google, OpenAI and Meta pay their AI scientists

The race for artificial intelligence is on, and every company wants a piece of the cake. Every company out there is trying to outdo the other. Billions are being spent; giants are acquiring smaller startups, aggressively hiring new talent to fast forward their work on AI, while top dogs at top AI firms are making jumps, as they get bigger opportunities.

Have you ever wondered how much these “AI scientists” could be earning? Well, top companies are paying them in millions, and that could be the reason why Meta couldn’t hire the top talent in the industry.

As reported by the Information, Zuckerberg and co. have been losing top AI talent to other AI firms like OpenAI, Deepmind, and Mistral, as the researchers are flocking for more money.

OpenAI pays their AI researchers up to $10 million a year, and its recruiters have also been offering employees at rival firms additional stock benefits in millions of dollars, especially to researchers at Google who’d been earning up to $5 million annually. Meanwhile, Meta does not have that deep pocket and only pays AI scientists a salary of up to $2.5 million.

Zuckerberg is now personally messaging scientists at Google’s Deepmind unit to join Meta’s efforts. The Facebook owner is even ready to hire researchers without even an interview and has made changes to its negotiation policies to retain the researchers with higher salary offers.