Five researcher poachings in two weeks: AI lab talent wars are accelerating
himanshustwts · x · 2026-10-11
Founder Himanshu notes that talent competition among model and data labs is accelerating: researchers and research engineers he had worked with for weeks kept leaving for other companies — five such departures in just the past two weeks.
The anecdote underscores how intensely top AI labs are competing for scarce senior research talent, with job-hopping now happening at a striking pace.
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