Bottom line: The competition for artificial intelligence talent in Silicon Valley has reached a fever pitch, with tech giants Meta and OpenAI locked in a high-stakes battle to recruit and retain the industry's brightest minds. This rivalry is reshaping not only compensation norms but also the culture and priorities of AI research teams across the sector.
The big picture: If Google really is forced to sell Chrome – as proposed by the DOJ after the company was ruled a monopoly in its antitrust trial – OpenAI could emerge as a potential buyer. The ChatGPT maker has admitted it's interested in acquiring the world's most popular browser and turning it into an "AI-first" experience.
Manners are not ruining the environment: The costs of training and running artificial intelligence model are massive. Even excluding everything but electricity, AI data centers burn through over $100 million a year to process user prompts and model outputs. So, does saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT really cost OpenAI millions? Short answer: probably not.