Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas将当前AI领域的人才争夺战比作体育界的“转会市场”，强调顶尖AI研究人员因稀缺性而拥有巨大的议价能力。他指出，科技巨头如Meta正以高额薪酬和优厚待遇吸引人才，但他也提醒企业，除了金钱，更应关注员工的使命感和成长机会，以应对人才流失的挑战。这种人才争夺的现象源于顶尖人才的短缺以及科技公司充裕的资金，使得吸引和留住AI领域的核心人才成为一项艰巨的任务。

🌟 AI人才争夺堪比体育“转会市场”：Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas将AI领域的人才招聘比作NBA的转会市场，认为顶尖AI研究人员如同体育明星，拥有极大的“议价能力”。这种比喻突显了当前AI人才的稀缺性以及企业为争夺这些人才所付出的努力和资源。

💰 巨头高薪挖角，薪酬待遇成关键：Meta等科技巨头正通过提供“令人瞠目结舌”的薪酬来招募顶尖AI人才。Srinivas提到，这不仅是市场需求，也是一种战略投入，暗示了对新团队期望极高的成功率，失败的代价将非常沉重。

🚀 留住人才需超越金钱：Srinivas强调，企业不能仅仅依靠金钱来留住员工。他认为，提供成长机会、学习新知识以及实现个人价值，是激励员工、防止其跳槽的关键因素。企业需要让员工感受到除了薪酬之外的更多动力，例如使命感和个人发展。

⚖️ 人才短缺与资金充裕是双重驱动：当前AI人才市场的激烈竞争，一方面是由于顶尖AI研究人员和工程师的供给有限，另一方面则是大型科技公司拥有雄厚的资金实力。这两者共同推动了这场人才争夺战的白热化。

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said the AI talent wars are becoming a "transfer market."Srinivas said companies should ensure employees are motivated by more than money to avoid losing them.The frenzy is partly the result of a shortage of talent and an excess of money.

Top AI researchers have more in common with Steph Curry than you might think.

At least according to Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity, who compared the feverish AI talent wars to the scramble for sports stars on an episode of the podcast "Decoder" that aired July 17.

"It's definitely going to feel like a transfer market now, like an NBA or something," he said of the effort to recruit AI researchers. "There's going to be a few individual stars who are having so much leverage."

As Big Tech companies offer eye-popping salaries and CEOs personally recruit AI talent, Srinivas said that companies need to ensure that employees are motivated by mission as well as money.

"You're encountering new kinds of challenges. You feel a lot of growth, you're learning new things. And you're getting richer, too, along the way. Why would you want to go just because you have some guaranteed payments?" he said.

Srinivas said that he was "surprised by the magnitude" of the salaries Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly offering to top AI researchers, adding that it "seems like it's needed at this point for them." With the massive salaries, Srinivas said "failure is not an option" for Meta's new team — and that anything other than success would look pretty bad for Zuckerberg.

It's not just Meta that's trying to poach top talent. The hiring spree is motivated both by the limited pool of top researchers and engineers and nearly unfathomable resources at the biggest tech companies, as BI previously reported.

Srinivas isn't the first to make the basketball metaphor: Databricks' vice president of AI compared recruiting a top researcher to "looking for LeBron James."

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