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Elon Musk to raise Tesla AI staff salaries to curb OpenAI poaching
The AI talent war continues to escalate as Elon Musk increases Tesla engineer's salaries to match those at rival OpenAI.
The 52-year-old billionaire seemed to confirm that it is an issue focused on compensation rather than staff being dissatisfied with the company’s work environment in a further post on the social network he owns. Or is it more than [sic] these employees just want to switch things up, so matching wouldn’t matter?” and Musk responded that “Tesla is increasing comp (contingent on progress milestones) of our AI engineering team.” This came after a story reported by The Information that a prominent machine learning expert from Tesla was moving to join xAI, Musk’s AI company.
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