{"id":127993,"date":"2024-03-28T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127993"},"modified":"2024-03-28T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T18:22:30","slug":"wsj-the-fight-for-ai-talent-pay-million-dollar-packages-and-buy-whole-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127993","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) The Fight for AI Talent: Pay Million-Dollar Packages and Buy Whole Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The artificial-intelligence boom is sending Silicon Valley\u2019s talent wars to new extremes.<\/p>\n<p>Tech companies are serving up million-dollar-a-year compensation packages, accelerated stock-vesting schedules and offers to poach entire engineering teams to draw people with expertise and experience in the kind of generative AI that is powering ChatGPT and other humanlike bots. They are competing against each other and against startups vying to be the next big thing to unseat the giants.<\/p>\n<p>The offers stand out even by the industry\u2019s relatively lavish past standards of outsize pay and perks. And the current AI talent shortage stands out for another reason: It is happening as layoffs are continuing in other areas of tech and as companies have been reallocating resources to invest more in covering the enormous cost of developing AI technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a secular shift in what talents we\u2019re going after,\u201d says Naveen Rao, head of Generative AI at Databricks. \u201cWe have a glut of people on one side and a shortage on the other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/the-fight-for-ai-talent-pay-million-dollar-packages-and-buy-whole-teams-c370de2b\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThere is a secular shift in what talents we\u2019re going after,\u201d says Naveen Rao, head of Generative AI at Databricks. \u201cWe have a glut of people on one side [in tech] &amp; a shortage on the other\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yfHihwU937\">https:\/\/t.co\/yfHihwU937<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jim Russell (@ProducerCities) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProducerCities\/status\/1773089052599742830?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The artificial-intelligence boom is sending Silicon Valley\u2019s talent wars to new extremes. Tech companies are serving up million-dollar-a-year compensation packages, accelerated stock-vesting schedules and offers to poach entire engineering teams to draw people with expertise and experience in the kind<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127993\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[589,597,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127996,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127993\/revisions\/127996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}