The conservation of AI talents is difficult in the middle of the competition mounted between Google, Openai and other heavy goods vehicles.
The Google AI Division Deepmind has used the use of “aggressive” non-competitive agreements for certain members of AI staff in the United Kingdom who prevent them from working for competitors for a year, Business Insider reports.
Some are paid during this period, in what is equivalent to a long section of PTO. But practice can ensure that researchers feel excluded from the rapid pace of AI progress, Bi reported.
In the United States, the FTC prohibited most of the non-concretes last year, but this does not apply to the London headquarters in Deepmind.
Last month, the Vice-President of AI to Microsoft posted on X on the way the Deepmind staff contacted him “in despair” for the challenge of escaping from their non-compatible clauses:
Google did not respond to a request for comments from Techcrunch, but told Bi that he used “selectively” non-configres.
