One employee at xAI, a principal machine learning engineer, was paid almost double the government-defined prevailing wage.
OpenAI has thousands of employees with salaries ranging from $145,000 to $530,000.
The salary range is wider there in part because OpenAI has many more administrative employees.
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None of this new data should be terribly surprising.
The data also doesnt include stock-based compensation.
Add on top of that the history between Musk and Altman.
Its like breaking up with a girl only for her to have a massive glow-up years later.
Hesattached it to Xin order to somewhat salvage the $44 billion purchase of that company as well.
Between the two ventures, more than $50 billion has been investedthis is a big swing for Musk.
It will be a major hit to his ego if xAI and its Grok chatbot were to fail.
This lawsuit, then, is really just an attempt to slow OpenAI down.
Everyone in tech seems to be a free market maximalist until they arent.
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