San Francisco, July 10 -- OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers from rival tech companies, including former Tesla executive David Lau, to join its scaling team, WIRED reported.

According to an internal Slack message sent by OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman on Tuesday, the new hires include Lau, who was vice president of software engineering at Tesla, Uday Ruddarraju, former head of infrastructure engineering at xAI and X, Mike Dalton, an infrastructure engineer also from xAI, and Angela Fan, an AI researcher from Meta.

WIRED reported that both Dalton and Ruddarraju previously worked at Robinhood and collaborated on Colossus, a supercomputer built with over 200,000 GPUs.

"We're excited to welcome these new members to our scaling te...