10 Companies Ramp Up AI Research Hiring as OpenAI Reaches 900 Million Weekly Users
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Updated · Built In · Jun 8
10 Companies Ramp Up AI Research Hiring as OpenAI Reaches 900 Million Weekly Users
3 articles · Updated · Built In · Jun 8
Summary
Ten companies including Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta and xAI are actively hiring AI research scientists as advanced-model development moves deeper into core product strategy.
Hiring is centered on multimodal reasoning, reinforcement learning, model evaluation, synthetic data and on-device AI as companies try to turn frontier research into deployable products.
OpenAI, whose ChatGPT now reaches 900 million weekly users, and xAI, which built a 200,000-GPU supercomputer in 212 days, highlight the scale and speed driving recruitment.
Amazon, with 30% of the cloud market, Nvidia, with an estimated 90% share of AI accelerators, and Apple, with more than 2 billion active devices, are tying research roles to infrastructure and consumer deployment.
The list shows AI research jobs spreading beyond labs and startups into cloud, chips, enterprise software and consumer devices as companies compete on both model capability and real-world use.
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Overview
OpenAI experienced explosive growth in early 2026, with ChatGPT's weekly active users soaring to 900 million, more than doubling from the previous year. India alone contributed 100 million users, highlighting global adoption. In the workplace, 70.8% of AI users rely on ChatGPT, leading to significant daily time savings, especially in data science, engineering, and communications. The way people use AI at work is changing, with a shift toward specialized tasks like content creation and health documentation. Meanwhile, technical help queries within ChatGPT have declined as more users access AI through integrated tools and APIs.