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AI engineers working at Tesla might have Sam Altman and OpenAI to thank for his or her wage bumps.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned on Wednesday that his firm is rising the compensation packages for these engaged on the AI engineering group. The pay increase, Musk mentioned, was in response to OpenAI’s makes an attempt to poach Tesla’s engineers.
Tesla is rising comp (contingent on progress milestones) of our AI engineering group
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2024
“They’ve been aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers with large compensation affords and have sadly been profitable in just a few circumstances,” Musk mentioned of OpenAI’s hiring efforts in an X publish on Wednesday.
Musk made the remarks in response to a narrative by The Info that was printed on the identical day. In accordance with the report, Tesla machine-learning scientist Ethan Knight is transferring over to hitch Musk’s AI firm, xAI.
“Ethan was going to hitch OpenAI, so it was both xAI or them,” Musk wrote on X.
Ethan was going to hitch OpenAI, so it was both xAI or them.
They’ve been aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers with large compensation affords and have sadly been profitable in just a few circumstances.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2024
Representatives for OpenAI didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider despatched outdoors common enterprise hours.
Competitors for AI expertise has been heating up as tech firms race to grow to be dominant gamers within the discipline. Except for providing eye-watering salaries, some Huge Tech leaders have adopted a private contact relating to wooing engineers.
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg has been reportedly writing private emails to AI researchers at Google’s DeepMind, per The Info. In truth, Zuckerberg’s Meta has even provided jobs to candidates with out conducting any interviews, the outlet reported.
It isn’t simply Zuckerberg’s who’s needed to do private reachouts. Google cofounder Sergey Brin needed to personally name an worker who was pondering of leaving Google for OpenAI. In accordance with The Info’s report, Brin made a number of guarantees to persuade the worker to remain, together with a suggestion of upper pay.
“The expertise warfare for AI is the craziest expertise warfare I’ve ever seen!” Musk mentioned on Wednesday.
