"The rivalry between xAI and OpenAI is heating up again - this time, over wood-fired pizza. Over the weekend, Elon Musk and an OpenAI engineer jockeyed on X about wood-fired crusts, dough fermentation, and campus chefs. On its face, it was a lighthearted back-and-forth about free pizza for lunch. Underneath, it encapsulates a trend playing out in Silicon Valley: rival AI companies are publicly pitching culture - and perks like free lunch - in the talent war for top engineers."
"The exchange began when Musk reposted a video of an xAI engineer calling his job the "opportunity of a lifetime." "Join @xAI," Musk wrote. The post quickly drew a response from xAI's competitor, OpenAI. "Or join Codex," said Thibault Sottiaux, an engineering lead working on OpenAI's Codex software agent, who is also hiring. OpenAI operates "with much of the same principles," he wrote - before adding an increasingly common recruitment pitch. "Join the bright side, we have pizza," Sottiaux wrote."
Elon Musk reposted a video of an xAI engineer calling his job the "opportunity of a lifetime" and invited candidates to join xAI. An OpenAI engineering lead, Thibault Sottiaux, promoted OpenAI's Codex team and advertised free pizza as a recruitment perk. Musk pressed on pizza quality, asking about wood-oven pizza, dough fermentation, and praising xAI's chef while stressing 24-hour dough preparation. The exchange illustrated rival AI firms publicly marketing workplace culture and culinary perks to win top engineering talent amid industry-wide cost-cutting that is trimming other benefits.
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