OpenAIhas hired four senior engineers from Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) andxAI, reports Wired quoting an internal message by cofounder Greg Brockman shared on the company’s Slack channel. The new engineers, as per the report, will work on OpenAI’s scaling team, which manages the backend infrastructure and data centers that support model training, including Stargate—a joint venture aimed at building large-scale AI infrastructure. This infrastructure plays a key role in enabling OpenAI to develop and train advanced foundation models.The new hires are expected to help OpenAI expand its infrastructure and support the company’s broader goal of developingartificial general intelligence.In a statement to the publication, Ruddarraju said “Infrastructure is where research meets reality, and OpenAI has already demonstrated this successfully”. He continued “Stargate, in particular, is an infrastructure moonshot that perfectly matches the ambitious, systems-level challenges I love taking on.”Lau also shared a comment on his decision to join OpenAI. He said “It has become incredibly clear to me that accelerating progress towards safe, well-aligned artificial general intelligence is the most rewarding mission I could imagine for the next chapter of my career”.The hires come at a time of growing competition among AI companies for skilled engineers and researchers. Recently, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta hired at least seven people from OpenAI, reportedly offering higher compensation and more computing resources. In response, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff the company may revise its compensation structure to remain competitive.Zuckerberg has also attempted to recruit employees from Thinking Machines Lab, a startup led by OpenAI’s former CTO Mira Murati and cofounder John Schulman, Wired report stated.The recruitment of engineers from Tesla and xAI, Wired report says, may add tension to OpenAI’s legal dispute withElon Musk. Musk, who cofounded OpenAI in 2015 and left in 2018, is currently suing the company. He claims it abandoned its nonprofit mission by creating a for-profit arm and partnering with Microsoft. OpenAI has filed a countersuit, accusing Musk of interfering with its operations and engaging in unfair competition.