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Retaining top AI gift is tough amid cutthroat rival between Google , OpenAI , and other whale .
Google ’s AI class , DeepMind , has repair to using “ aggressive ” noncompete agreement for some AI staff in the U.K. that block up them from work for competitors for up to a year , Business Insiderreports .
Some are pay during this time , in what amounts to a lengthy stretch of PTO . But the practice can make investigator feel leave out of the quick rate of AI progress , reported BI .
Last month , the VP of AI at Microsoft posted on X about how DeepMind staff are reaching out to him “ in despair ” over the challenge of escaping their noncompete clause :
pricy @GoogDeepMind erbium , First , congrats on the new telling models . Every week one of you reaches out to me in despair to ask me how to escape your notice periods and noncompetes . Also inquire me for a job because your coach has excuse this is the agency to get encourage , but …
Google did n’t respond to a asking for comment from TechCrunch but told BI it use noncompetes “ selectively . ”
