Elon Musk Fights Talent War with OpenAI Over Tesla Engineers
Elon Musk announced that Tesla is increasing the compensation packages for its AI engineering team in response to OpenAI's aggressive poaching of Tesla engineers with massive pay offers. The move comes after reports of Tesla machine-learning scientist Ethan Knight joining Musk's AI company, xAI, instead of OpenAI. The competition for AI talent has intensified, with tech companies like Meta and Google making personal efforts to retain or recruit AI engineers, reflecting the intense battle for talent in the field of artificial intelligence.