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Beijing time April 13 news, whenever a "tuyere" appears, scarce talent will be frantically robbed, this time it is the field of artificial intelligence (AI). In the United States, technology companies have spread the "war" to the campuses of top universities in order to compete for AI talents.

Technology companies scramble for university AI talents more than a dozen university professors, students, fresh graduates and industry professionals said in an interview that as more and more companies compete for AI dominance, they are digging for talent on university campuses. In order to win the favor of students, they not only hand out knickknacks and water bottles printed with letters, but also offer six-figure salaries of $400000 to $700000 and the opportunity to work with top talent in the industry. and devote enough resources to solve problems that are too expensive in academia to solve.

Recruitment of AI talent by conquered campus technology companies has become so intense that the enrollment of Dr. AI in some universities has begun to slow. "they spend a lot of resources and money to attract young undergraduates around the age of 21 who say, 'this is great' and then they disappear," says Kavita Bala, dean of the department of computing and information science at Cornell University. "the student community is being wiped out."

Crist ó bal Eyzaguirre, a doctoral student at Stanford University, admitted that the toy car given to him by Tesla was his favorite of all the items he got from private parties, job fairs and Tesla events he attended as a bonus. These activities are designed to attract young people studying AI to top companies.

"I really like what Tesla gave me," said Eza Gill, 27. "they really put their heart into it."

Stanford University Hugging Face, a startup that offers off-the-shelf machine learning models, is ahead of the hiring process. At the beginning of 2022, the company launched a series of university lectures and conducted virtual demonstrations to more than 1000 computer science students around the world. Hugging Face also allows students to continue their classes through online demonstrations of AI technology and learning labs on the company's website.

Protracted war for technology companies, recruiting on college campuses is a protracted war. Traditionally, the first day of class marks the beginning of the recruitment cycle. But as competition intensifies, they seem to be moving up the timetable.

Nithya Attaluri, a master of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says she was contacted by recruiters at the start of the fall semester. A few months later, she locked in a job at DeepMind, a subsidiary of Google's AI. More Cornell seniors return to campus from summer internships and start working full-time in the spring, said Barra, dean of the department of computing and information science at Cornell University.

For the few who insist on completing their doctorates in academia, their expertise makes them the ultimate prize for headhunters. "they have been contacted by recruiters during their PhD studies," says Kilian Weinberger, a computer science professor at Cornell University. "most of them have resisted the temptation."

"most PhDs at Stanford are encouraged by start-ups or companies to try to get them to drop out or co-start companies with others," said Nancy Xu Nancy Xu, founder and CEO of Moonhub, a start-up that automates recruitment. She is currently on leave from her Ph.D. AI program at Stanford University to focus on Moonhub.

Weinberg also works part-time as a researcher at Asapp, a call center automation startup. Some companies are eager to hire graduate students and even allow them to take part-time jobs while continuing their studies, he said. Michael Shamos, director of the AI and Innovation Master Program at Carnegie Mellon University, says the base salary for such part-time jobs he has seen is more than $350000.

The salary of a full-time job is even higher. Ilyas Bancolai-Ilyas Bankole-Hameed, an AI student at Carnegie Mellon University, says he has heard that full-time jobs offer nearly $500000.

These incredible figures are enough to attract many fresh graduates. In 2011, the newly graduated Dr. AI had roughly the same proportion of jobs in the technology industry and academia. But since then, most of the fresh graduates have entered the AI industry. According to the 2023 AI Index report released by the people-oriented AI Institute at Stanford University, the proportion of AI graduates working in the AI industry is almost double that of academic positions in 2021.

However, salary is only one of the reasons why students give up their studies and join the industry. University professors and students say the main attraction is that they have the opportunity to do research that is applied in the real world. In academia, money is often a constraint, but in startups, it is plentiful because venture capitalists and tech giants such as Google's parent company Alphabet and Microsoft provide money for smaller companies.

"all AI companies offer positions for people with or without doctorates," says Mr Ataluri, who is about to become an DeepMind researcher. It's up to the students to decide, "how do you want to spend the next five years," she says.

For students like Eza Gill, they must consider whether they are willing to deviate from the benign world of academia in order to have a place in the promised land of Silicon Valley.

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