OpenAI, GPT-5He announced the day before the launch of technical teams will give a special bonus of millions of dollars. Sam Altman, CEO of the company, announced that this decision aims to increase the motivation of researchers and engineers.
In the message submitted by Altman on the in-house Slack, the payment was defined as “Special One-Time Award ve and will be given to employees in certain technical units. Bonuses, Applied Engineering, scaling And security It covers researchers and software engineers working in their fields. One -third of approximately 1,000 employees, ie OpenAI’s full -time staff, will benefit from this payment. Payments will be made in every quarter for two years and employees will receive the amount in cash, company shares or two of them.
The amount of bonus varies according to the role and seniority of employees. The highest payments will be given to senior researchers with a million dollar income, and will be a few million dollars. For engineers, an average payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars is planned. In addition to these bonuses, a share sales program is on the agenda so that OpenAI employees can sell their shareholders at higher prices at the beginning of the year. According to Bloomberg, the new valuation can rise up to $ 500 billion.
Meta has recently added many senior names from OpenAI to its staff. Among them ChatgptShengjia Zhao, who is in the creative team of the creative team, also starts to work as the chief scientist in Meta. Mark Chen, OpenAI’s Chief Research Officer, described Meta’s intense recruitment attempts as “theft entering our house”. But the only rival that OpenAI faces is not commodity; Elon Musk’s XAI initiative is similarly aggressive offers.
The special bonus program in OpenAI reflects the effects of competition
Thinking Machines, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has transferred some names from the company’s technical staff. The increase in these transfers mobilized the OpenAI management. In his speech to his employees, Altman emphasized the company’s belief in target -oriented works with the words “Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries”. However, the special bonus program does not cover all employees. Some teams who work intensively in the process of launch preparations but do not fall within the scope of this payment, said that they are not satisfied with the situation.
OpenAI will launch the GPT-5 with an event near Chase Center in San Francisco, USA. After the launch, Sam Altman participated in a celebration event with the company employees in the splash sports bar. This event was an organization that reinforces the effects of both the new product promotion and the private bonus program on employees.