‘Craziest talent war’ | Musk bumps salaries to stop Tesla staff joining OpenAI - but counteroffers never work, right?

Musk bumps salaries to stop Tesla staff joining OpenAI - but counteroffers never work, right?

Elon Musk revealed on Wednesday that Tesla is increasing compensation for its AI engineering team in response to OpenAI’s ‘aggressive’ attempts to recruit its staff.

Writing on X, Musk responded to an article from The Information reporting a move from a machine learning scientist moving from Tesla to xAI, Musk’s AI company:

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