Money no longer matters to AI's top talent
An episode of the Decoder with Nilay Patel podcast, hosted by The Verge, titled "Money no longer matters to AI's top talent" was published on February 19, 2026 and runs 41 minutes.
February 19, 2026 ·41m · Decoder with Nilay Patel
Episode Description
Today we're talking about the war for AI talent. Right now, the hottest job market on the planet is for AI researchers. And the vast majority of these people are concentrated into a small number of hugely valuable, extremely fast-growing companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, most of which are now paying some of the highest salaries in the history of tech to poach from one another.
We’ve been dying to really dig in and try to unpack what's going on with all these talent moves in AI. So we brought on Verge senior AI re...
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