Currently, there is a career to see who has the best artificial intelligence. Large companies that are entirely in this sector such as Google, Openai, Meta or Microsoft (among others) seek to improve and create new and more sophisticated models. This is impossible without counting on their ranks with the best engineers, but as in each race, What matters is always going to the head.
Google is one of the companies that bet the most on the promotion of Gemini. Here, as we have already said, the key is that its engineers are incredible (and that they work 60 hours a week, as the founder of Google hears), But also that it is better than those of competition. Even if it means paying the workers directly so that these “enemy” companies do not join.
A non-component which is very harmful in the race for the best AI
It is relatively common to find work contracts with Non-competition clauses. These prevent workers from going to competition for a certain period of time, thus avoiding certain ideas or ways of working with them. In the United States, these clauses are illegal in many states (as in California, where Google’s headquarters), but not in Europe.
Precisely from the latter that Google uses, as explained by the Business Insider portal. The main headquarters of Google Deepmind, which is the main axis of artificial intelligence of the company, is located in the United Kingdom, where non-competition clauses are valid. Based on this legality, some Google employees would be linked to this clause for a period of up to 12 months.
This aggressive 'clause “ would eliminate an engineer from the race out of the equation of the best AI for a long time, taking more into account how much all progress progresses in the sector. The most curious is that, according to the aforementioned medium, workers who are bound by the clauses without competition They continue to load Deepmind. In other words: Google continues to pay them directly so that they do not work for other companies.
It does not seem to be the general norm. The non-competition clauses that Google signs are not the same. The most common has a duration of six months, even for individual employees. They are the most veterans and have known those who have the most aggressive clausesWhich shows that Google goes with everything to win the race.
The logical thing is to think that the invoicing of not working is a good deal, but it can be terrible for the labor career of engineers affected by the clauses. It is now when the main companies are betting strongly to extend their engineers and it is logical to think that They will not be ready to wait 6 months or a year To hire someone.
On this subject, the vice-president of Microsoft AI, Nando de Freitas, threw more firewood, in an X. Who was Director of DeepmindHe says that “every week, one of you (by Google Engineers) gives me desperately to ask you how to escape your warning periods and your failure agreements.”
What is clear is that it is another proof of Google is very serious in the field of artificial intelligence. Not only by investing in talents and infrastructure, but also to avoid engineering leaks towards direct competence.
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