Google is allegedly paying some AI staff to do nothing for a year rather than join rivals
Maintaining Top AI talent is difficult in the midst of murderous competition between Google, OpenAi and other heavyweights.
The AI division of Google, DeepMind, has resorted to the use of “aggressive” non -competitive agreements for some AI employees in the UK that forbids them to work for competitors up to a year, business insider report.
Some are paid during this time, in what comes down on a long -term PTO. But through practice, researchers can feel outside the rapid pace of the AI preliminary output, BI reported.
In the US, the FTC prohibited most non -competitors last year, but that does not apply to DeepMind’s head office in London.
Last month, the VP of AI posted at Microsoft on X about how DeepMind employees reach him “in desperation” about the challenge of escaping their non -competitive clauses:
Google did not respond to a request for comment from WAN, but said BI that it uses non -competitors ‘selective’.
