Google pays its AI specialists to do nothing for a year
Google Gemini
Long -awaited, Gemini (Google Bard), the conversational agent fueled by the AI developed by Google, is deployed in the form of a free online service and a mobile application for Android and iPhone devices
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Practice is described as “Aggressive” And prevents AI experts from joining competing companies for an extended period after their departure. However, concerned still receive a salary during the period of forced inactivity.
An “aggressive” strategy to retain talent
Nando de Freitas, Vice-President of AI at Microsoft, points the finger at this practice. On X, the executive reveals that he constantly receives desperate messages from Deepmind employees who seek to escape this situation: “Each week, one of you contact me desperately to ask me how to escape your notice periods and non-competition clauses”he wrote in his post.
AI companies like Openai or Google are fierce competition to tear the best talents in the field of AI. Companies deploy strategies to attract and retain these highly sought -after profiles.
The location of the Deepmind headquarters in London offers it an advantage compared to the United States. The Federal American Trade Commission (FTC) prohibited most of the non-competition clauses last year. Which is not the case with the United Kingdom.
Contacted by TechcrunchGoogle did not follow up on the request for comments. The company, however, told Business Insider that it used non-competition clauses “selectively”.
