This article originally appeared on Business Insider.
AI engineers working at Tesla may have Sam Altman and OpenAI to thank for their salary bumps.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday that his company is increasing the compensation packages for those working on the AI engineering team. The pay raise, Musk said, was in response to OpenAI’s attempts to poach Tesla’s engineers.
Tesla is increasing comp (contingent on progress milestones) of our AI engineering team
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2024
“They have been aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers with massive compensation offers and have unfortunately been successful in a few cases,” Musk said of OpenAI’s hiring efforts in an X post
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