โก๏ธ ๐ ๐ Google has offered employees in five additional countries voluntary redundancy with compensation amid rising AI development costs. The company's employees in Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Switzerland are offering one month's salary for each year they work in exchange for their departure, and the offer applies not only to Google Cloud and DeepMind. ๐ Just a week ago, Microsoft offered a similar deal to 60,000 employees - about a quarter of its workforce. ๐According to Bloomberg and Reuters, large technology companies are placing the team to direct funding for artificial intelligence projects.