Money no longer matters to AI's top talent
About this episode
From the show’s notesToday we're talking about the war for AI talent. Right now, the hottest job market on the planet is for AI researchers. And the vast majority of these people are concentrated into a small number of hugely valuable, extremely fast-growing companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, most of which are now paying some of the highest salaries in the history of tech to poach from one another.
We’ve been dying to really dig in and try to unpack what's going on with all these talent moves in AI. So we brought on Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field, who's been covering the revolving door of the AI industry really closely and also the broader culture that's motivating workers to jump ship.
Read the show’s notes in full
Links:
What’s behind the mass exodus at xAI? | The Verge
OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI | The Verge
Two more xAI co-founders leave after the SpaceX merger | The Verge
AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry | BBC
OpenAI is making the mistakes Facebook made. I quit. | NYT
Anthropic’s chief on AI: ‘We don’t know if the models are conscious’ | NYT
Meet the one woman Anthropic trusts to teach AI morals | WSJ
OpenAI plans fourth-quarter IPO in race to beat Anthropic to market | WSJ
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