CNBC: The Sneaky Way Big Tech is Acquiring Talent from AI Unicorns
“Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others have been getting creative in how they’re poaching talent from top AI startups. Google inked a deal recently with Character.ai to hire away its prominent founder, Noam Shazeer, along with more than one-fifth of its workforce while also licensing its technology. In March, Microsoft signed a deal with Inflection to use the startup’s models and to hire most of its staff. Amazon followed in June with a faux acquisition of Adept. CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa has the story.”