OpenAI to nearly double headcount this year
4 hours ago
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- OpenAI plans to nearly double its headcount to 8,000 employees this year.
- The company is ramping up efforts to sell its AI products to businesses.
- OpenAI is losing business customers to rival Anthropic, despite ChatGPT's popularity among individual users.
- The hiring spree occurs amid a dampened US labor market with layoffs and hiring pauses.
- Goldman Sachs predicts an increase in demand for workers with AI knowledge and skills.
- The AI boom is also creating more blue-collar construction roles tied to data center buildout.