🌠 Elon Musk Boosts Tesla AI Engineer Pay Amid "Craziest Talent War"

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🌠 Elon Musk Boosts Tesla AI Engineer Pay Amid "Craziest Talent War"

Tesla CEO aims to retain top AI talent as OpenAI aggressively recruits with lucrative offers

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Elon Musk announced that Tesla is increasing compensation for its artificial intelligence engineers in an effort to prevent poaching by rival AI company OpenAI. Musk described the competition for AI talent as the "craziest talent war" he has ever seen. The pay raises are contingent on engineers hitting progress milestones.

The Details

• OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, has been "aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers with massive compensation offers" and has successfully lured away some talent, according to Musk.

• Tesla machine learning scientist Ethan Knight recently left to join Musk's AI startup xAI. Musk said Knight was going to join OpenAI otherwise.

• There are over 200 engineers on the Tesla AI/Autonomy team. Musk says Tesla's progress on autonomy is accelerating despite the talent war.

Why Should You Care?

The fierce battle for top AI engineering talent between major tech companies and startups underscores how crucial artificial intelligence has become as a competitive differentiator.

With the rapid advancements in generative AI sparked by ChatGPT, the engineers behind this cutting-edge technology are in extremely high demand.

Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but later left and is now suing the company for deviating from its original mission. His efforts to retain Tesla's AI team and build alternatives to ChatGPT at xAI and Tesla showcase the high stakes involved in the race for AI supremacy.

As companies fight over limited human resources, engineer compensation in the field could continue to skyrocket. Source

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