Overview

• OpenAI confirmed it has hired David Lau, Uday Ruddarraju, Mike Dalton and Angela Fan from Tesla, xAI and Meta to join its scaling team.
• The new hires will work on backend hardware, software systems and data centers under OpenAI’s Stargate infrastructure project.
• Meta Platforms continues to lure AI experts with eye-watering pay packages, including a reported $200 million offer to Apple’s former AI models executive Ruoming Pang.
• Tech firms are escalating headhunting and compensation to advance toward artificial general intelligence, tightening a limited market for infrastructure talent.
• Industry leaders warn that steep pay disparities and aggressive poaching may undermine fairness and culture within AI organizations.