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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 growing the compensation packages for these engaged on the AI engineering crew. The pay increase, Musk mentioned, was in response to OpenAI’s makes an attempt to poach Tesla’s engineers.
Tesla is growing comp (contingent on progress milestones) of our AI engineering crew
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2024
“They’ve been aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers with huge compensation presents and have sadly been profitable in a number of instances,” Musk mentioned of OpenAI’s hiring efforts in an X publish on Wednesday.
Musk made the remarks in response to a narrative by The Data that was printed on the identical day. In accordance with the report, Tesla machine-learning scientist Ethan Knight is shifting 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 huge compensation presents and have sadly been profitable in a number of instances.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2024
Representatives for OpenAI didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider despatched exterior common enterprise hours.
Competitors for AI expertise has been heating up as tech firms race to develop into dominant gamers within the subject. Apart from providing eye-watering salaries, some Huge Tech leaders have adopted a private contact in relation to wooing engineers.
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg has been reportedly writing private emails to AI researchers at Google’s DeepMind, per The Data. In actual fact, 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 Data’s report, Brin made a number of guarantees to persuade the worker to remain, together with a suggestion of upper pay.
“The expertise conflict for AI is the craziest expertise conflict I’ve ever seen!” Musk mentioned on Wednesday.
