Massive compensation offers do not guarantee retention because culture, empathetic leadership, and collegiality can outweigh even billion-dollar pay packages.
Major tech firms are offering multimillion-dollar compensation and aggressive recruiting to attract top AI and engineering talent from rival companies.
Meta Superintelligence Labs is already losing key staff less than two months after launch
Meta's Superintelligence Labs faces early staff departures of veteran AI engineers and leaders amid recruitment disruption, lavish compensation, and internal tensions.
Thinking Machines Lab Raises a Record $2 Billion, Announces Cofounders
Thinking Machines Lab has raised a historic $2 billion seed round, valuing the firm at $12 billion and underscoring intense competition for AI talent and technology.
Microsoft salaries revealed: How much the tech giant pays software engineers, product managers, and more
Microsoft's substantial investment in AI includes billions spent on its flagship Copilot tool and it remains the largest investor in OpenAI, despite some relationship issues.