They hired (poached) a bunch of the top talent from OpenAI and other places. It's really not a secret.

belabartok39 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ha. Talent. You mean people who cheat on their interviews like this guy.

	▲	spindump8930 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They hired many accomplished researchers, with track records of both papers and work at other frontier companies. They gave those folks huge autonomy, huge budget, and 18 months - some would say at the expense of the rest of the company. Check out blind references to TBD. I'd call the strategy ruthless, but it certainly was effective.

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embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why is the word "poached" though, like it's illegal or those people "rightfully belongs" to OpenAI but now Facebook "stole" them somehow? Feels like something Steve Jobs would coin just to make it sound worse than it is. People switch jobs, this is OK.

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bethekidyouwant 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s been used like this since the 1850s

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_carbyau_ 4 hours ago | parent [-]

True. But should it be that way?

	▲	spindump8930 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Words are meant to convey an idea to your audience! In some sense there's no "should" - either a word works or it doesn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description

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mrheosuper 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And when the Chinese does the same, we call them "stealing technology".