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Inside the AI talent wars

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Saturday, March 22, 2025

Verne Kopytoff

Senior Editor, Tech

The AI boom has created a new class of rock stars. Engineers and researchers specialized in the all-important technology are landing huge pay packages as companies, desperate to gain an edge over rivals, outbid each other for scarce talent.

In a recently published article, Fortune reporter Sharon Goldman gives a fascinating account of this all-out war within the tech industry. She tells how top recruits are showered with multimillion-dollar stock grants and personally wooed by well-known CEOs, including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg.

The takeaway: It pays—quite well, it turns out—to be an AI nerd.

Inside the high-stakes talent war among AI companies

March 15, 2025

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