Not even (sometimes) the richest man in the world is resistant to AI talent war.
OpenAI is “aggressively recruiting” engineers for electric vehicle maker Tesla, “offering huge salary offers,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said overdue Wednesday on his social media site X, adding that the creator of ChatGPT “has unfortunately been successful in several cases.”
Musk responded to the report regarding Tesla’s head of computer vision, Ethan Knight, is leaving the company Down Musk’s AI company xAI. Musk said Knight was to leave for OpenAI – who is Musk is suing in connection with cooperation with Microsoft — this was the case between two artificial intelligence companies.
Tesla’s AI/Autonomy team has more than 200 “excellent engineers,” Musk said, and its progress is “accelerating.” But, he said, war for AI talent “this is the craziest talent war I’ve ever seen.”
Musk said Tesla increasing remuneration for the AI engineering team “depending on progress milestones” in response to a question from Twin Birch co-founder and Tesla investor Sawyer Merritt about whether Tesla is meeting OpenAI offers.
Neither OpenAI nor Tesla immediately responded to a request for comment.
As The technology industry is the leader in layoffs in the US this year, the artificial intelligence sector is struggling to find talent and the war for talent is heating up, with offers reportedly reaching up to $1 million. Industry leaders like OpenAI and Facebook parent Meta to tiny startups are also offering accelerated stock acquisition schedules to acquire talent and even entire teams.
“There is a secular shift in talent selection” – Naveen Rao, Head of Generative AI at Databricks, he told The Wall Street Journal.“On the one hand we have an excess of people and on the other hand we have a shortage.”
OpenAI was reported to be offering a median salary (including bonus and equity) of $925,000, Zuhayeer Musa, co-founder of salary and career data platform Levels.fyi, told The Journal, based on the platform’s consultation with six OpenAI job candidates. According to reports, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote personal emails to artificial intelligence researchers at Google DeepMind convince them to cooperate with him.
