OpenAI has recruited several employees from Crossing Minds, the startup that develops AI recommendation systems, said in an announcement on Thursday, June 30.
“Joining OpenAI allows us to bring our work — and our values — into a mission we deeply respect: to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We’re thrilled to bring our experience and energy to a team that’s setting the direction for the future of AI. We’re excited to learn, to contribute, and to help shape what’s next,” the co-founders of Crossing Minds wrote in a blog post on its official website.
This development comes days after rival Meta poached four of OpenAI’s researchers, signalling a potential talent war among AI companies. It is still unclear as to whether OpenAI has hired everyone that was part of the Crossing Minds team.
What is Crossing Minds?
Crossing Minds is a startup that primarily works with e-commerce companies to help improve their personalisation and recommendation systems. It has developed intelligent, adaptive information retrieval systems, allowing for optimum use of data procured by their client companies.
These systems ensure real-time, personalised results alongside advanced applications for large language models (LLMs) to enhance in-context learning and fine-tuning.Crossing Minds is backed by Shopify and Index Ventures, and raised over 13.5 million dollars in its last funding round, as per Crunchbase.
The high-stakes, rapidly evolving AI race has led tech companies to aggressively poach talent from rivals. Recently, Meta hired four ex-OpenAI researchers as part of its newly formed artificial superintelligence lab that will be led by Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang.
One major reason for employees swapping sides could be the lure of 100-million-dollar signing bonuses being offered by Meta to OpenAI’s top workers, as revealed by CEO Sam Altman in a recent podcast. However, this claim of ‘hefty signing bonuses’ was termed as “fake news” by one of the OpenAI researchers set to join Meta.
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In response to Meta’s poaching of AI researchers left and right for its superintelligence lab, OpenAI chief research officer Mark Chen said in an internal memo, “I feel a visceral feeling right now, as if someone has broken into our home and stolen something,” as per a report by Wired.
Amazon Web Services’ AI division has also reportedly been affected by the AI talent war, with Vasi Philomin, a vice president of generative AI, saying that he was going to another company, according to a report by Reuters. Philomin had been with Amazon for eight years and played a pivotal role in AI projects such as Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Titan. He did not provide any specifics on where he was going next.
(This article has been curated by Purv Ashar, who is an intern with The Indian Express)
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