TREE NEWS update: A new report ranks daily pay for interns at 12 major AI firms, with OpenAI and Anthropic offering over 5,000 yuan per day, while Chinese giants like ByteDance pay up to 2,000 yuan for top talent. The survey reveals a stark pay gap between elite and regular interns, and between US and Chinese companies.
AI Intern Daily Pay Revealed: Anthropic Over 5000 Yuan, Kimi in Fourth Tier
The gap here is less about prestige than about where scarce model-building talent is being bid up, and the 12-firm sample suggests the dispersion is structural rather than anecdotal. For AI labs, intern pay functions as an early signal of full-time compensation bands and of how aggressively US players are willing to lock in pipeline talent relative to Chinese counterparts. Whether the tiering holds as more Chinese labs scale their own frontier efforts is the open question worth tracking.
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