Poached Egg Elon Musk is big mad that OpenAI keeps trying to poach Tesla engineers — so instead, he’s stealing them for another of his ventures. Responding to reporting from The Information about Tesla machine learning researcher Ethan Knight going over to xAI, Musk’s latest artificial intelligence gambit, the multi-hyphenate billionaire admitted that the move came only after OpenAI tried to poach his own employee first. “Ethan was going to join OpenAI,” Musk said in a response to perennial reply guy Sawyer Merritt, “so it was either xAI or them.” As you may recall, Musk was one of the original cofounders of OpenAI and left the firm in 2018 amid reported differences in opinion regarding what direction it should be taking. About a year later, the company announced that it would be opening a for-profit arm, which has clearly chagrined its most famous cofounder in the interim. Ever since, he’s been in something of a blood feud with the firm. It’s not exactly shocking that OpenAI would seek to lift researchers from Musk-owned companies, especially considering that he’s allegedly attempted to do the same — and as the rest of his comments indicate, it’s clear not only that this is the latest forte in his ongoing battle with the company he helped start, but also that he might not be exactly winning this one. “They have been aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers with massive compensation offers,” Musk continued, “and have unfortunately been successful in a few cases.” Insult to Injury Strangely enough, the Tesla…Elon Musk Is Poaching Tesla Engineers for xAI. Wait, What?