Indeed, on the Lex Fridman podcast, Musk said it was a very tough recruiting battle for Ilya. Now it looks like they have a shot at getting him back.
How so? Ilya won. OpenAI is now more his than it was before Sam was fired.
A pyrrhic victory.
I think Ilya is getting what he wanted. Although, that may yet have disastrous consequences for the company if employees follow through on mass quitting, thus freeing him up. But if they can quickly prevent people leaving in the short term, maybe urgent discontent will pass.
If you mean they is Google and Larry, sure. But in that clip Elon was recruiting for OpenAI