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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said nan electrical conveyance elephantine is giving its artificial intelligence engineers a raise arsenic nan automaker tries to fend disconnected poaching efforts by ChatGPT creator OpenAI.
The tech billionaire made nan revelation successful a bid of X posts Wednesday, confirming a study from The Information that Tesla machine-learning intelligence Ethan Knight near for Musk's AI startup, xAI.
Elon Musk says Tesla is raising compensation for its AI engineers, saying OpenAI is "aggressively recruiting" them. (Sebastian Gollnow/picture confederation via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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"Ethan was going to subordinate OpenAI, truthful it was either xAI aliases them," Musk wrote. "They person been aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers pinch monolithic compensation offers and person unluckily been successful successful a fewer cases."
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Musk added nan "talent warfare for AI is nan craziest talent warfare I’ve ever seen," adding Tesla is raising compensation for its AI engineering team.
Musk was 1 of nan co-founders of OpenAI successful 2015 but near nan committee successful 2018. (Harun Ozalp/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images / Getty Images)
OpenAI is considered nan leader successful generative AI aft its ChatGPT chatbot became nan fastest-growing package exertion successful nan world wrong six months of its motorboat successful November 2022. It sparked nan motorboat of rival bots by Microsoft, Google and a bevy of startups. Microsoft is simply a awesome investor successful OpenAI, committing billions of dollars to nan company.
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The AI frenzy has put AI engineers successful precocious demand, moreover arsenic tech companies person done waves of layoffs successful different areas complete nan past year.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, during a sheet convention astatine nan World Economic Forum successful Davos, Switzerland Jan. 18, 2024. (Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Musk was among OpenAI's co-founders successful 2015 but near nan committee successful 2018. He is suing nan institution and CEO Sam Altman, alleging nan statement breached its founding statement to create AI for nan use of humanity, alternatively than for profit, by partnering pinch Microsoft.
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Seeking an replacement to OpenAI and Google bots, Musk launched xAI past twelvemonth to create what he said would beryllium a "maximum truth-seeking AI".
Reuters contributed to this report.
