The article discusses the compensation details of OpenAI employees, as revealed in a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk against the AI research company. According to the lawsuit, OpenAI paid its top researchers and engineers salaries ranging from $800,000 to $1.5 million annually, with additional equity compensation. The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI’s compensation practices were designed to lure top talent away from companies like Google and DeepMind. The article also mentions that OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, earned a salary of $572,000 in 2016, while the company’s co-founders, Ilya Sutskever and Greg Brockman, earned $1.9 million and $1.3 million, respectively, in 2021. The article suggests that these high compensation levels reflect the intense competition for AI talent and the significant funding OpenAI has received from investors like Microsoft.