The exchange began when Musk reposted a video of an xAI engineer calling his job the "opportunity of a lifetime." Companies including Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and Musk's xAI are competing for a relatively small pool of researchers capable of building the next generation of models and infrastructure. At the same time, the broader tech industry has pulled back on many of the pre-pandemic perks amid cost-cutting.
Author: Ben Shimkus
Published at: 2026-02-17 22:20:36
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