{"id":898,"date":"2025-08-08T08:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T04:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/openai-gives-some-employees-a-special-multimillion-dollar-bonus\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T08:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T04:23:15","slug":"openai-gives-some-employees-a-special-multimillion-dollar-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/openai-gives-some-employees-a-special-multimillion-dollar-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI gives some employees a \u2018special\u2019 multimillion-dollar bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/Sam-Altman-CL-site-wide.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The day before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/openai\/748017\/gpt-5-chatgpt-openai-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launch of GPT-5<\/a>, OpenAI CEO <strong>Sam Altman<\/strong> surprised employees with a message in the company&rsquo;s Slack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u00ab\u00a0As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we have been looking at comp for our technical teams given the movement in the market,\u00a0\u00bb wrote Altman, according to a copy of the message that was shared with me. He announced that OpenAI would give a \u00ab\u00a0special one-time award\u00a0\u00bb to researchers and software engineers in a handful of orgs, including applied engineering, scaling, and safety. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u00ab\u00a0We very much intend to keep increasing comp as we keep doing better and better as a company,\u00a0\u00bb he wrote. \u00ab\u00a0But we wanted to be transparent about this one since \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/command-line-newsletter\/756561\/openai-employees-bonus-sam-altman-ai-talent-wars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day before the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman surprised employees with a message in the company&rsquo;s Slack. 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