The preservation of Top -AI talent is difficult to do amid Cutthroat competition between Google, Openai and other heavyweights.

Google’s AI division, Deepmind, has used the use of ‘aggressive’ not -competitive agreements for some AI staff in the UK who prevent them from working for competitors up to a year, Business Insider reports.

Some are paid during this time, which amounts to a long piece of Pto. But the practice can make researchers feel from the rapid rate of AI progress, Bi reports.

In the US, the FTC did not ban the most last year, but this does not apply to Deepmind’s headquarters in London.

Last month, the VP of AI placed on Microsoft on X about how Deepmind staff issued him “in despair” about the challenge of escaping their competitive clauses:

Google did not respond to a request for comment from TechCrunch, but told Bi that it did not use competencies “selectively”.