India, Aug. 5 -- Amid ongoing reports of aggressive poaching attempts by Meta targeting top talent at Google, Apple, and OpenAI, Elon Musk has claimed that his AI company, xAI, has successfully hired several engineers from Meta, without offering eye-watering salaries.

Responding to a post about OpenAI researchers rejecting Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's job offers, Musk revealed that xAI had managed to attract "many strong Meta engineers" without dangling "insane initial comp" in front of them.

"Many strong Meta engineers have and are joining xAI and without the need for insane initial comp (still great, but not unsustainably high)," he wrote, claiming that xAI has "vastly more" market cap growth potential than Meta.

Musk emphasised that h...