XTX Markets founder Alex Gerko has put out an open offer to researchers at the company behind the hugely popular ChatGPT tool to join his algorithmic trading house.

“To [the] top 1% of researchers in OpenAI: come join us in XTX. Very interesting problems, best research infrastructure, best compensation, zero risk of accidentally killing all humanity, 0.09% of Microsoft's headcount,” Gerko posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.