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OpenAI poaches top AI talent from xAI, Meta and Tesla: Report
UNITED STATES, JUL 9 – OpenAI strengthened its backend scaling team by hiring four senior AI engineers from Tesla, xAI, X, and Meta amid intense competition and ongoing legal disputes, Wired reported.
- On July 10, 2025, OpenAI hired four senior engineers from Tesla, xAI, and Meta to join its scaling team focused on infrastructure and data centers.
- This hiring came amid intensified competition and recent high-profile defections of OpenAI researchers to Meta's AGI Superintelligence team.
- The new hires include David Lau, former Tesla VP of Software Engineering, Uday Ruddarraju and Mike Dalton from xAI, and AI researcher Angela Fan from Meta.
- OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman welcomed them publicly, while CEO Sam Altman said, "We have an incredibly talented team" who "really love what they're doing."
- OpenAI aims to strengthen its infrastructure as it faces talent raids and plans product launches, signaling efforts to reclaim momentum in a competitive AI industry.
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