OpenAI has announced a substantial retention initiative involving special one-time bonuses for approximately 1,000 technical employees, representing about one-third of its workforce. These bonuses, which scale by employee level, range from hundreds of thousands of dollars for engineers to mid single-digit millions for top-tier staff. This move follows the recent unveiling of GPT-5 and aims to retain top AI talent amid intense competition from companies like Meta. Additionally, OpenAI is set to pay CoreWeave up to $11.9 billion by October 2030, according to a recent SEC filing.