OpenAI's former head of developers, who left the Sam Altman-led startup in March, announced this week that he has joined Google.
Logan Kilpatrick leads AI Studio and powers Gemini, Google's chatbot. “There's a lot of hard work ahead, but we're committed to making Google the best home for developers building with AI.” said on LinkedIn Tuesday. “We also have the most AI developer-centric team in the world.”
At OpenAI, Kilpatrick helped AI developers bring their products to life. He moved from a Microsoft-backed AI startup to his Google. First reported by Business Insider and Gizmochinais another example of Hiring talent by big tech From a company developing generative artificial intelligence technology.Microsoft in his March Employs most of Inflection AI's staff. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made a public pitch. OpenAI researchers I joined a cloud software company last fall. Poaching AI talent is not limited to Big Tech.Wall Street banks such as Morgan Stanley and Citigroup seduced talent Rival Goldman Sachs lost talent, and Bank of America lost staff specializing in AI to competitors.
Investing in and poaching talent from AI startups is a way for Big Tech companies to ramp up their AI efforts without going through the legal hurdles of mergers and acquisitions. decreased in the past two years by Strengthening of surveillance under antitrust laws and high interest rates.
You might wonder why big tech companies and Wall Street can't hire new AI talent of their own.There is Global AI talent shortage — something that is pushing the offer to $1 million even as layoffs plague the industry. Smaller startups and larger companies, including Meta, also offer stock vesting schedules.
“There's a long-term shift in the talent we're looking for,” Naveen Rao, head of generative AI at Databricks, told the Wall Street Journal in late March. “On one hand we have an excess of talent, and on the other we have a shortage.”