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Based on this article from Benj Edwards at Ars Technica

Silicon Valley's AI talent war has reached a staggering new peak, with companies like Meta offering individual researchers compensation packages worth a quarter of a billion dollars. These astronomical sums mean a single AI researcher now earns more in a few days than what scientific legends like J. Robert Oppenheimer or Neil Armstrong made in an entire year while developing the atomic bomb or walking on the moon.

This unprecedented spending is fueled by a high-stakes bet among tech giants that the first to create Artificial General Intelligence will achieve unparalleled economic dominance, potentially reshaping the global economy. Ultimately, this salary explosion is the result of a unique modern gold rush, where a handful of trillion-dollar companies are locked in a fierce battle to acquire the extremely limited pool of talent they believe holds the key to the future.

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