A fierce hiring fight for people with key AI skills.
It is like every school team chasing the same star pitcher. His cleats are still untied, and the pizza bribes are already out.
It pushes up pay and poaching in big model labs. Chip teams and research groups feel it too.
Compute-race
The talent fight and the compute fight often grow together.
Frontier model
Frontier model work needs top researchers, so the hiring fight gets fierce.
AI-anxiety
Huge pay stories can make normal workers feel behind.
AI career moat
A fierce talent war makes a strong career moat more useful.