Unannounced though, it is an all out Artificial Intelligence (AI) war, which would for sure decide the fate of this world. It is not a battle between nation and the governments and more decidedly they have hardly anything to do with it but for some amount of grandstanding. Some unconnected policy tweaking might happen, but barely good enough to make an impact. The likely results can be two; either one company beats all others in the race by a handsome margin or around half a dozen of them share the honours and so the booty. It is easier said than one.
It has often been said that AI would not beat you, but it’s the people who learn AI and become proficient would take up the jobs of others. The fear of losing jobs is scary and that it is the scenario which we are living in. Losing jobs have become nearly imminent, given AI’s exponential growth. The earlier we accept this, the better placed we would be in trying out options, to safeguard oneself, in gearing for a job change. We need to get equipped for it is the more important part of reality. What they would do to be in the race, if left to them but the AI contours and its trajectory is getting clearer with every passing day.
In this doomsday job scenario, a fascinating group of tech professionals are being lured to be a part of the company they are working for. It is the leading and by far the oldest, of AI outfits known and making sense to the wider world. We find the first manifestation of AI Wars here. The company we are talking about is Google DeepMind, which is planning to provide a long paid break to stop them from joining rivals. Google, presumably, wants to keep “its AI resources on a tight leash. Google DeepMind CEO is offering employees* a year of paid leave instead of working for the competitors.
The non-compete agreements have also come in place. This is to prevent staff from joining rivals for 12 months post-employment. Some employees are provided with extended garden leaves as well. This means that the company still pays them during the non-complete period. To determine the length of the nonocmpete clauses, the factors to be considered are seniority of the employees and how critical their work was to the company. The race has now gone to different level since AI came into full public glare since ChatGPT was revealed. The backdrop has the launch of DeepSeek, as the notion of the need for massive capital came crashing down, ChatGPT got massive updates with o3 Mini reasoning model and roll out of the Deep Research Agent and more recently, the native image generator on GPt-4o. Google added native image generation capabilities to Gemini 2.0 Flash language model, followed by Gemini 2.5 Pro, its most powerful model.
THE AI SPACE IS WHERE THE BATTLE WILL REMAIN FOR QUITE SOMETIME NOW.
Sanjay Sahay
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