OpenAI has just escalated its talent war with Google.

The AI firm is trying to attract some of Google's best researchers through a pay packet worth millions, as well as top tech resources including AI accelerator chips to run tests, The Information reported.

OpenAI is exploring options for an employee share sale that values the company at $86 billion, Bloomberg reported last month.

If its recruiters are successful in enticing top Google AI researchers, they could benefit from compensation packages of between $5 million and $10 million after the latest share sale, according to The Information.

The company closed a share sale in April that saw it valued between $27 billion and $29 billion, per TechCrunch.

The firm behind ChatGPT has already won over talent from Google and Meta to help work on its AI chatbot. Five former Google researchers were listed in the acknowledgments section of OpenAI's blog post announcing the launch of ChatGPT last November.

OpenAI has hired at least 93 people who have previously worked at Google and Meta. The company had around 59 former Google employees and about 34 ex-Meta staff working for it as of February, according to data from LeadGenius and Punks & Pinstripes.

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