"Top AI researchers continue to jump between leading AI labs as competition for elite talent intensifies.
Why it matters: Hiring elite AI researchers is hard. Keeping them — even after offering enormous pay, prestigious titles and vast computing resources — is proving almost as difficult.
Between the lines: The churn reflects an unusual moment in which a small group of researchers can command extraordinary compensation while choosing among companies with different cultures, missions and technical resources.
Zoom out: Frontier AI now resembles a single, tightly connected ecosystem rather than a collection of isolated rivals.
Companies battle fiercely for talent and customers while simultaneously investing in one another, buying one another's services, relying on the same cloud providers and hiring from the same small pool of researchers.
Driving the news: The latest high-profile move is Lilian Weng, co-founder of Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab."
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/03/ai-talent-wars-openai-google-meta-anthropic
@remixtures This is the way! Let this be a lesson for ordinary IT workers too. Change jobs as often as you credibly can to bump up your salary. Rest assured, there is no loyalty from the side of the global corporation.They will throw you out as quickly as they can. So take the chances you get when you get them and maximize your salary.
