Friday, 11 July, 2025
OpenAI Strikes Back in AI Talent War, Poaches Top Engineers from xAI, Tesla & Meta
OpenAI has recruited four senior engineers—David Lau (Tesla), Uday Ruddarraju & Mike Dalton (xAI), and Angela Fan (Meta)—to bolster its infrastructure-heavy scaling team, including the Stargate supercomputing project. Their hiring underscores escalating talent competition with Musk's xAI and Zuckerberg’s Meta, which recently made multimillion-dollar offers to AI experts. Sam Altman emphasizes mission and culture over money amid the escalating compensation arms race.
Read full story at Economic Times