I don’t think this is quite right. The people working at OpenAI are paid well, but at the same time they are taking huge cuts in salary compared to where they could be working otherwise. (Goodfellow and Sutskever could be making millions anywhere.) And given the distribution of salary, it’s very likely that the majority of both OpenAI and Deepmind researchers are making under $200k—not a crazy amount for Deep Learning talent nowadays.
I don’t think this is quite right. The people working at OpenAI are paid well, but at the same time they are taking huge cuts in salary compared to where they could be working otherwise. (Goodfellow and Sutskever could be making millions anywhere.) And given the distribution of salary, it’s very likely that the majority of both OpenAI and Deepmind researchers are making under $200k—not a crazy amount for Deep Learning talent nowadays.