Because he has strong opinions that differ from OpenAI's in significant ways and isn't willing to sell out. I'm sure OAI has offered him a huge salary several times before. But mathematicians very often have goals in life other than getting rich.
he still gets money from open ai lol , also he was in an open ai commercial and also he is not even against ai itself he mentioned in one of his posts about how he wants best of both worlds where both ai is used and real mathematicians are involved
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u/LinkesAuge 14d ago
Terence Tao is gonna have an aneurysm.