Retaining top ai talent is tough amid cutthroat competition between Google, Openai, and other heavyweights.
Google’s Ai Division, Deepmind, Has Resorted to Using “Aggressive” Noncompete Agreements for some ai staff in the uk that bar them from from works for competitors for up to a year, business inSider reports,
Some are paid during this time, in what Amounts to a lengthy stretch of pto. But the practice can make researchers feet out of the quick pace of Ai Progress, Reported Bi.
In the US, The ftc banned most noncompetes last yearBut that doesn’t apply to Deepmind’s London Headquarters.
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 Escapping Their Noncompete Clauses:
Google Didn’t Respond to a request for comment from techcrunch but told bi it uses noncompetes “selectively.”