nygazet.com logo

At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race

At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race
business8/1/2025

A 24 year-old AI researcher will earn 327x what Oppenheimer made while developing the atomic bomb.

Silicon Valley's AI talent war just reached a compensation milestone that makes even the most legendary scientific achievements of the past look financially modest. When Meta recently offered AI researcher Matt Deitke $250 million over four years (an... [2265 chars]