Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that he increased the salaries of engineers at the company. The reason for this raise is that OpenAI is trying to steal engineers from the company.
Companies struggling for the development of artificial intelligence have taken action to fill their staff with engineers who will carry out these studies. While the lack of sufficiently trained engineers started a war for employees among technology giants, Tesla, wanting to protect its human resources, increased the salaries of its employees.
Sharing a statement on the subject via X, Musk said, “Tesla increases the performance of our artificial intelligence engineering team (depending on the progress stages).” he said. Musk also stated that OpenAI tried to attract Tesla engineers with huge compensations and was successful from time to time.
Tensions rise between Musk and OpenAI
Elon Musk was among the names that supported the development of OpenAI at the initial stage, but later differences of opinion caused the two to fall out. Currently, Elon Musk has artificial intelligence development teams under both xAI and Tesla.
Elon Musk, in his statement on he said.Such talent attraction wars occur frequently, especially for newly developing fields. It is not surprising that every company is trying to recruit engineers from each other for a technology like artificial intelligence, which affects every field of technology in a very short time.