OpenAI is always on the lookout for talent. Of late, it was hired three experts in the area of computer vision (CV). They have been pulled away from its rival DeepMind. They will be based in Zurich, Switzerland office. These individuals are Alexander Kolesnikov. Lucas Beyer and Xiaohua, Zhai. They will work on multi-modal AI.
To begin with ChatGPT was text model. Later the company added voice and image features. It then became multi-modal. DALL-E, the image model of ChatGPT is available within ChatGPT. As we have observed in a separate blog, OpenAI has also introduced Sora, an AI video model.
There is fierce competition among the AI companies for top talents. The compensation offered run close to seven figure or more. It is not unusual, as the experts in AI are most sought after, Google recently hired Noam Shazeer, founder of Character.AI by paying $2.7 billion package.
Beyer has 70000 followers on X. OpenAI’s key persons have also left in recent times, e.g. Ilaya Sutskever who launched Safe Superintelligence (SSI), Mira Murati, former CTO left the company in September 2024. She is raising money for a new AI venture.
OpenAI is expanding globally. It has set up Zurich office. It intends to open an outposts at New York, Singapore and Seattle. It has already an outpost in London and Tokyo.
The newly recruited talent will be based Zurich. Zurich has ETH Zurich, a research university with a reputed computer science department. Apple too has set up a laboratory at Zurich.
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