Sam Altman says that the AI talent war is a bet that a “ handful of medium size ”

And the competition of joy does not seem to worry about soon.

“It is certainly the most intense talent market I saw in my career,” the CEO of Openai said on Friday, Sam Altman. “But if you think of the economic value created by these people and how much we spend to calculate, you know, maybe the market stays like that. I am not completely sure of what will happen, but it is an intense crazy compat for a very small number of people at the moment.”

How small this group of people is and what do they know that others do not, asked Andrew Sorkin from CNBC.

“The bet, hope is that they know how to discover the remaining ideas to get to superintendent – that there will be a handful of algorithmic ideas and, you know, a handful of medium -sized people who can understand them,” replied Altman.

This would help to explain the astronomical amounts that companies are ready to spend to poach AI talents, an offer exceeding $ 1 billion.

Altman said in June that Meta had made “giant offers to many people in our team”, some totaling “$ 100 million in signature and more than this (remuneration) per year”.

Meta also invests $ 14.3 billion on the scale and hires the CEO of the startup, Alexandr Wang, for a superintendent team.

While immense fortunes are thrown into a handful of better engineers, Altman estimated that the number of people sufficiently intelligent to make the superintendent of superintendent is much greater.

“I bet it is much bigger than people think, but you know that some companies in space have decided that they will go after a few brilliant names,” he told CNBC. “I think there are probably several thousand people we could find and probably tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people around the world who are able to do this kind of work.”