Artificial Intelligence is clearly the hottest industry right now. In worlds such as OpenAI or DeepMindTopArtificial Intelligence CompaniesA job is something that many people dream of. But have you ever wondered what would be the annual salary for working in these companies?
Rora has published its pay consultation report, giving the variousAI Companiespay for their researchers. Here are the 13TopList of Artificial Intelligence companies and the salaries they pay their researchers :.
OpenAI
OpenAI, the hottest AI startup of 2023 and creator of ChatGPT, tops the list. The company pays $865,000 a year inSalary, with an initial salary of $665,000 and a negotiated increment of $30%.
No wonder all the researchers were tricked into going to Microsoft after CEO Sam Altman was fired just to bring him back. Interestingly, the company plans to open an office in India, probably next year.
Anthropic
Anthropic could be OpenAI maximuma competitor and creator of Claude-2, founded by former OpenAI researchers Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei, which also pays its researchers a ton of money. The company came in second on the list with $855,000 in annual compensation.
Interestingly, during OpenAI's fiasco, members of the company's board of directors allegedly approached Dario about a merger and offered him the role of the company's CEO, but Dario declined.
Inflection
As the creators of Pi, the friendliest and most personalized chatbot, Inflection also pays its researchers huge sums of money. Although the initial salaries are unknown, Inflection pays its engineers $825,000 per year.
Inflection was founded by former DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman andFamousFounded by investor Reid Hoffman, it is valued at $4 billion. Although the company is in the big billion-dollar club, it has a small team of 35 researchers.
Tesla
Elon Musk's Tesla, the AI company behind self-driving cars, may also be providing a lot of power to the xAI company behind Grok, paying its researchers $780,000 a year. This comes with $702,000 in initial compensation, adding 111 TP3T to the negotiated increment.
Amazon
Interestingly, startups pay more than all large tech companies. Amazon is payingHighestof large tech companies that pay $719,000 a year. In addition, theHighestOne of the negotiated increments is 38%, with an initial salary of $520,000 per year.
Google DeepMind
The two research companies owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet, pay their researchers very differently.Brain, while in the process of merging with DeepMind, is offering a salary of $695,000 a year. That's a jump from 17% after a negotiated increment.
On the other hand, Google Research gave an annual salary of $549,000 with a negotiated increment of $77%, which is $310,000 above the annual salary.
Meta AI
Meta AI (formerly known as FAIR), with offices in New York, Menlo Park and London, focuses on AI research and has 150,000 GPUs involved in powering its social media platforms and AI.Meta Research Labs pays $556,000 per year in compensation, with an initial payroll of $480,000 and a negotiated Delta of 15%.
DeepMind
DeepMind has now merged with Google Brain and is being touted as one of the alternatives to Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI. As the "brains" behind the recent Gemini model, DeepMind pays its researchers $515,000 per year, with an initial salary of $452,000 and a negotiated increment of 131 TP3T.
apple
Apple pays almost half of what OpenAI pays, which is surprising given the difference in the company's valuation, though staff size is also important.Apple's initial payroll is $337,000, with $450,000 paid annually to the researchers in negotiated increments of $33%.
Microsoft Research
Surprisingly, salaries at Microsoft Research - the large tech company's own research lab - are almost on par with Apple's, which is half the size of its self-funded company, OpenAI. Despite the fact that it offers a whopping 661 TP3T in negotiated increments as well as an initial salary of $270,000, researchers at Microsoft Research are paid about $449,000 a year.
Maybe that's why OpenAI researchers don't actually want to go to Microsoft.
Nvidia
NVIDIA is the trillion-dollar valuation AI race of themaximumThe winner, NVIDIA offered its researchers $340,000 in initial compensation and a negotiated increment of 141 TP3T just for AI. Overall, the chip and GPU giant pays its researchers $390,000 per year.
IBM Research Center
Similar to NVIDIA, IBMResearch, a company that balances quantum computing and artificial intelligence, pays its researchers $377,000 per year, as well as a negotiated increment of $43% and $262,000 in initial compensation.
Hugging Face
At the bottom of the list is open sourcechampionHugging Face. although researchers are not underpaid, Hugging Face pays researchers $238,000 per year for their open source approach, as well as negotiated increments of 27% and $185,000 in initial compensation.