Tech Giants Battle for Scarce AI Talent with Lucrative Offers Amid Booming Demand

• AI talent is in huge demand, with tech giants offering millions to AI engineers amid a severe shortage of high-level talent

• Elon Musk has over a decade of experience in AI, helping set off the current frenzy back in 2015 when he poached a top Google AI researcher

• The "Sutskever incident" was an AI talent battle between Musk and Larry Page that strained their relationship

• OpenAI, co-founded by Musk but now run by Sam Altman, has been aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers with big offers

• The need for skilled AI engineers is skyrocketing as companies rush new products and models, even as overall tech layoffs continue