Patel says Chinese firms offer TSMC engineers five hundred thousand dollars versus eighty to one-fifty thousand in Taiwan.
“In TSMC, they're getting paid, you know, only like 80 to 150 k. Right? Like USD. Right?”
Patel directly contradicts Sam Altman's claim that no top researchers have left OpenAI for Meta.
“As far as Sam is saying that no top researchers have gone, I don't believe that's accurate. I initially the top researchers definitely did say no, the best researchers, the best people.”