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摘要: AI bidding wars: The talent making a fortune as Big Tech firms fight it out

FILE. An engineer works on next-generation software for deep learning.

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AI bidding wars: The talent making a fortune as Big Tech firms fight it out

FILE. An engineer works on next-generation software for deep learning.

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AP via Business Wire

Copyright AP via Business Wire

Quirino Mealha

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19/05/2026 - 11:45 GMT+2

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As Big Tech and a whole cohort of new-generation AI start-ups race towards artificial general intelligence (AGI), elite researchers and engineering leaders have become the equivalent of franchise athletes.

The emerging AI industry has created a labour market unlike anything Silicon Valley has seen since the dot-com boom, except this time, there are perhaps only a few hundred people currently capable of building frontier AI systems at scale.

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OpenAI, Meta, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI, Safe Superintelligence and a new and growing number of AI start-ups are all competing to attract an incredibly small pool of highly skilled talent.

As a result, in the last two years, reports have emerged of nine-figure compensation discussions, massive equity grants and recruiting campaigns personally led by CEOs such as Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman.

Some figures circulating online are disputed or unverified, so this article focuses on the top individuals whose recruiting value and market demand have been credibly reported by major publications or personally confirmed by individuals involved in the negotiations.

Below are five of the most renowned AI engineers and researchers in the world today in no particular order, whose stories reflect the different kinds of bidding wars unfolding inside the AI industry.

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