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AI Companies Trade Pizza in Recruitment Battle
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Relevance ScoreElon Musk and OpenAI engineer Thibault Sottiaux traded posts on X over the weekend of Feb. 15, 2026, joking about wood‑fired pizza as part of recruitment pitches for xAI and OpenAI. The exchange spotlights a broader talent war where companies including OpenAI, xAI, Microsoft and Amazon offer high-end compensation—sometimes approaching nine-figure packages—and GPU access while trimming other perks.
