OpenAI: After Salesforce, Microsoft floats job invitations for OpenAI researchers

Amid the turmoil at OpenAI, reports suggest that workers who have quit and hundreds of employees who have threatened to resign are either exploring a way to join the ousted CEO Sam Altman or looking to join other tech giants, like Google. Competitors like Salesforce are looking to poach some talent from the company that developed ChatGPT, and now Microsoft has offered jobs to those who are mulling to quit.
In a post on X, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott announced that Microsoft will match the compensation of OpenAI employees considering a departure from the company.
“To my partners at OpenAI: We have seen your petition and appreciate your desire potentially to join Sam Altman at Microsoft’s new AI Research Lab. Know that if needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation and advances our collective mission,” Scott said.

The development comes soon after Microsoft Satya Nadella announced that Sam Altman and fellow co-founder Greg Brockman, who quit soon after Altman was ousted, are joining the Windows maker.
However, things took a slight turn, and Nadella hinted in an interview that Altman’s comeback at OpenAI was on the cards. Reportedly, negotiations are still on as over 500 employees wrote a letter to the board asking it to bring back Altman.
Salesforce CEO’s job offer
About a day ago, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in a post on X that his company is willing to hire researchers from OpenAI.
“Salesforce will match any OpenAI researcher who has tendered their resignation full cash & equity OTE to immediately join our Salesforce Einstein Trusted AI research team under Silvio Savarese,” Benioff said in a post on X.
“Send me your cv directly to ceo@salesforce.com. Einstein is the most successful enterprise AI Platform completing 1 Trillion predictive & generative transactions this week! Join our Trusted AI Enterprise Revolution,” he added.
A number of employees have politely rejected his offer saying that they would stay with Altman, Brockman and CTO Mira Murati.