Overview

• OpenAI has onboarded David Lau from Tesla, Uday Ruddarraju and Mike Dalton from xAI, and Angela Fan from Meta to its scaling team
• The new hires will focus on backend hardware, data centers and the Stargate joint venture that underpin training for advanced foundation models
• The recruitment follows a wave of departures to Meta and precedes a planned recalibration of researcher compensation to stem further talent losses
• OpenAI is defending against a lawsuit by Elon Musk over its mission shift and has filed a countersuit alleging unfair competition and business interference
• Meta remains aggressive in poaching AI experts and is pressing ahead with its own infrastructure projects to compete with OpenAI