The day before the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman surprised employees with a message in the company’s Slack.
« As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we have been looking at comp for our technical teams given the movement in the market, » wrote Altman, according to a copy of the message that was shared with me. He announced that OpenAI would give a « special one-time award » to researchers and software engineers in a handful of orgs, including applied engineering, scaling, and safety.
« We very much intend to keep increasing comp as we keep doing better and better as a company, » he wrote. « But we wanted to be transparent about this one since …
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