Hiring these people wouldn’t be so easy. Some of them were earning seven-figure salaries with companies like Google and Facebook, and Altman and Brockman couldn’t offer anywhere near those amounts. What they did have was a compelling mission to change the world and two prestigious names running the show. Elon Musk was now a globally revered tycoon, and running Y Combinator had elevated Altman’s status in the Valley to someone everybody wanted an introduction to. For AI researchers, even a short stint at this new nonprofit group offered prestigious connections and a potential career boost that
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