TechFlow news, December 8 — OpenAI's Chief Research Officer Mark Chen revealed in a podcast that the AI "talent war" in Silicon Valley has escalated to the point of delivering soup: Mark Zuckerberg personally cooked and delivered soup to the doorstep of an OpenAI researcher, prompting OpenAI to retaliate with its own "soup counterattack." Chen stated that OpenAI's core research team comprises about 500 people working on 300 projects, emphasizing that the company remains fundamentally research-driven, highly confident in its pretraining approach and next-generation models, adding that "10 times more compute capacity would be fully utilized within weeks." BiyaPay analysts believe that talent and computing power buildup at top AI labs will accelerate model capability divergence, increase demand for computing assets and infrastructure, benefiting investors who use BiyaPay to allocate U.S. stocks, Hong Kong stocks, and digital assets.
