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There is a whole fierce battle in the giants tech by take to the best talents to innovate in the field of artificial intelligence. And given the high competition that is being lived, the salary scale in the technological sector is more rising than ever. The salaries of scientists and engineers of AI They have reached stratospheric figureswith salary incentives ranging from 3 to 7 million dollars annually for senior profiles. An unprecedented escalation that is turning these professionals In authentic financial assets.
What’s happening. Great technological ones such as Meta and OpenAi are starring a war of talent without barracks. The salaries of your Top researchers have risen 50% since 2022reaching 10 million annually in exceptional cases. To put it in perspective: a traditional software engineer in a large company charges between 180,000 and 220,000 base salary dollars in the United States, while an AI scientist can reach 2 million.
According to the Specialized Salary Portal LevelsMeta is one of the companies that are paying the most to its AI engineers, climbing from 186,000 dollars to 3.2 million. Until recently, it was not usual in Tech companies for positions that were not managers or investors.
The trigger. Mark Zuckerberg has been the great catalyst of this escalation. According to Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Goal is offering bonds of up to 100 million dollars to the most prominent engineers in the sector. The strategy responds to The disappointing flame reception 4which has not finished meeting expectations in Benchmarks of reasoning and programming. Eleven of the fourteen researchers of the flame team They have abandoned goalseveral course to the French Mistral.
Openai’s response. The company responsible for Chatgpt has not remained still. Its research director, Mark Chen, sent an internal memo Comparing personnel exits with “as if someone had broken into our home and had stolen something.” Openai gave his workforce to “rest and recharge energy”, while Chen and Altman work “24 hours” to retain talent and “recalibrate” salary packages.
Beyond money. Paradoxically, the sector’s torses say that many researchers prioritize the reputation of the equipment and the quality of work above astronomical figures. “There is always a risk: if you finish in the finish line, you may not do the level of work you would do in Deepmind, OpenAi or Anthropic,” Explain Firas Sozan, CEO of the consultant Harrison Clarke.
The domino effect. This salary inflation is pushing some companies to look for alternatives. Startups such as Hugging Face are moving their search for talent to Europe, where in our continent, “with a Silicon Valley software engineer you can hire three or four of the same level,” according to Thomas Wolf, co -founder of the company. Sectors such as insurance, entertainment and financial services are also uploading their offers to compete for this top -level talent.
Why does it matter. IA researchers have become the new players of the technological world, with millionaire signings that reflect the strategic value that companies grant to artificial intelligence. One of the most recent cases is that of the young man Alexandr Wangthe new AI star who will be responsible for directing the Meta Labs SuperintenTintentintentintelligence Labs. The Zuckerberg company has paid $ 14.3 billion per Scale AI, a platform that serves as preparing language models and was founded by Wang and Lucy Guo. They are superstar, and are the minds that will shape the future of AI.
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