OpenAI has poached 4 senior engineers from its competitors, including former Tesla Vice President of Software Engineering David Lau

BlockBeats News, July 9th, according to Wired, OpenAI has poached 4 senior engineers from competitors Tesla, xAI, and Meta, including former Tesla Vice President of Software Engineering David Lau, who has joined the company's scaling team. The news was announced by OpenAI co-founder and head of scaling team Greg Brockman on Tuesday through an internal Slack message.

Joining OpenAI along with David Lau are former xAI and X Director of Infrastructure Engineering Uday Ruddarraju, xAI Infrastructure Engineer Mike Dalton, and Meta AI Researcher Angela Fan. Both Dalton and Ruddarraju previously worked at Robinhood. At xAI, Ruddarraju and Dalton were involved in building Colossus, a large supercomputer consisting of over 200,000 GPUs.