Silicon Valley is accompanied by the ongoing war for AI talent. And to win over the biggest AI brain, it is no longer just about who can write the biggest investigation. While Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making headlines due to his tendency to offer Akash-high pay packages-some are allegedly reaching $ 200 million-Microsoft has launched his aggressive campaign to hire AI engineers from his rivals. Interestingly, instead of leading with cash alone, Microsoft has a new trick to woo engineers – the promise of startup culture and the coming with it.

Mustafa Suleman, co-founder of Google’s Deepmind and now Microsoft AI, is leading the charge to bring top talent to the company. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, he is now targeting his former colleagues to build AI lab in Microsoft. In the last several months, Microsoft has allegedly hired more than two dozen pre -Google employees and most of them are called from Google’s AI Research Lab, Deepmind.

To woo this top talent, Sulemann is not just hanging money. He is allegedly calling the recruits directly, pitching the AI unit of Microsoft as a lean, rapid -running environment, the bureaucracy is free from the drag that some now says that now defines the deepminds under Google’s corporate structure. In short, the AI of the Suleyman Microsoft is giving the team a type of startup culture, where anyone can get their objectives in the way they want and can get up quickly or in a rapidly grown environment.

In high-profile names, Microsoft has managed to bring it on board, who is Adam Sadowski, who is a reputed engineer in the east, and once, was immortal Subramania, once of the engineering of Google’s VP. Earlier in July, announced his move, Subramanya also described his new team. “Culture here is freshly less ego that is still bursting with ambition. It reminds me of the best parts of a startup-a focus on focusing from Teji to moving, collaborative, and deeply, which is actually an innovative, universal foundation model to drive a romantic AI-AI-AI-AI-operative products like Microsoft Copillots,” he wrote on a link. “

These new recruits are asked to work on consumer-support products such as Microsoft Copilot. The new unit chaired by Suleman is operated from Mountain View, California, which is away from the traditional base of Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. According to the report, the AI team of Microsoft has described the work culture there as a self-contained hub of innovation. CEO Sathya Nadella is said to have said that Suleman Wide Leve, including the big budget, was given to create an AI operation, which could rival Openai, Anthropic and Google.

Of course, salary packages are not small. Not enough at the level of meta, Microsoft’s proposals are reportedly above that the deepmind usually pays, especially for senior talent. And it is a top-level salary, which has been associated with the promise of freedom, speed and meaningful impact, is an engineer to appear, including people from the deepmind of Google.

Interestingly, 20 years ago, in the morning of the Internet era, it was rapidly raised Microsoft engineers with promises of innovation. Now, as the tech industry goes through another revolution, this time, under the leadership of AI, the tables are twisted. Former Google HR chief Laszlo Bok tells WSJ that today’s Google seems like “an organization run by an engineer ran by an engineer”.