Elon Emails

Altman: DeepMind planning massive counteroffers

From:
Sam Altman
Date:
December 11, 2015 (Sent 11:30 AM; the subject line runs into the first sentence)
To:
Elon Musk
Subject:
just got word...
that deepmind is going to give everyone in openAI massive counteroffers tomorrow to try to kill it. do you have any objection to me proactively increasing everyone's comp by 100-200k per year? i think they're all motivated by the mission here but it would be a good signal to everyone we are going to take care of them over time. sounds like deepmind is planning to go to war over this, they've been literally cornering people at NIPS.

About this email

On launch day Altman warns Musk that DeepMind will make large counteroffers to OpenAI's recruits and asks to raise everyone's pay by $100-200k a year.

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Court record; attribution confirmed.

OpenAI, executive & internal. Tags: deepmind, recruiting, compensation, counteroffers, launch, musk-v-openai