When will the bubble pop?
A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
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Re: A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
#82Ok people, is this for real like are these detached IC roles or are these articles talking about executive rolles filled by a.i. researchers?
Source: I know people who have both accepted and declined 100M+ packages
They are IC roles for the most part
Re: A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
#83HN shows this as google.com, but the link is directly to nytimes.com. Bug?
Re: A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
#84HN shows this as google.com, but the link is directly to nytimes.com. Bug?
The link is a google.com redirect. You probably have an extension installed that auto-resolves such redirects.
Re: A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
#85HN shows this as google.com, but the link is directly to nytimes.com. Bug?
It's a redirect.
Re: A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
#86Good for those involved being offered such packages, but it really does raise the question of what exactly those offering them are so afraid of. For example, Meta seem to be spending so much so they don't later have to fight a war against an external Facebook-as-chatbot style competitor, but it's hard to see how such a thing could emerge from the current social media landscape.
They just want the best, and they’re afraid of having second rates, B-players, etc., causing a bozo explosion. That seems like all the motivation that’s needed.
Why why would they need fears about a quasi-facebook chatbot?
Re: A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
#87When will the bubble pop?
I think we’d need a major war or a pandemic of sorts because we have become pretty good at maintaining such bubble inflated.
Whenever and however it comes, it’s going to be a bloodbath because we haven’t had a proper burst since 2008. I don’t count 2020.
Re: A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
#88HN shows this as google.com, but the link is directly to nytimes.com. Bug?
We updated the link to its redirect URL.
Re: A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
#89At $250M, top AI salaries dwarf the Manhattan Project and the Space Race - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44765193 - Aug 2025 (66 comments)
Re: A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
#90Ok people, is this for real like are these detached IC roles or are these articles talking about executive rolles filled by a.i. researchers?
Source: I know people who have both accepted and declined 100M+ packages They are IC roles for the most part
Are you aware of the terms of such offers?
I suppose those $100M are spread across years and potentially contingent upon achieving certain milestones.