OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has made another attempt at recruiting new people at the company via social media. In his latest post on X, Altman urged High-Frequency Trading (HFT) professionals to join OpenAI in order to use their skills in working towards building Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Just a day earlier, Altman had made another ‘desperate’ attempt at recruriting, looking for a person with background in compiler design or programming language design.
“if you are interested in infrastructure and very large-scale computing systems, the scale of what’s happening at openai right now is insane and we have very hard/interesting challenges. please consider joining us! we could desperately use your help.” Altman wrote in his post on X.
This isn’t the first time that Altman has talked about the new challenges posed by the reach of OpenAI. Ever since ChatGPT’s new viral moment with Ghibli style images, Altman has talked about his team being unable to sleep to keep things working well while also citing a shortage of GPUs.
In a recent TED talk, Chris Anderson inadvertently let it slip that OpenAI had recently doubled its user base while Altman gave an official figure of 5,00,000 weekly active users. At the highest of Ghibli style trend, ChatGPT was used to generate over 700 million images.
AI race heats up:
ChatGPT had remained at the forefront of the AI development for a long time after it gained the first movers advantage by rolling out its foundation model in late 2022. While the company received competiion from a lot of new and old players like Google, Anthropic and xAI, the real threat to its existence came in January this year when Chinese AI DeepSeek gained popularity in the West and dethroned ChatGPT as the most popular app on Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
Since then, OpenAI has launched a lot of new offerings including the GPT-4.5 foundation model, o3 Mini reasoning model, Deep Research and Operator AI agents, native image generation for GPT-4o and most recently GPT 4.1 model dedicated to developers. All of these new features have once again helped OpenAI regain its position as the one of the top companies in the AI arena.
