AI workplace: job-hopping measured in months, salaries easily top a million, but the anxiety of 'not being at the frontier' never goes away

Job-hopping cycles for AI talent have compressed from 2-3 years to 12-18 months. The top 20% of AI talent in the industry can see salary increases of 30%-50% when changing jobs, and AI product managers can earn an annual salary of 800,000-1,000,000 yuan. Some algorithm positions at DeepSeek and MiniMax offer monthly salaries of 80,000 yuan, which at 14 months' pay can reach up to 1 million yuan a year. People born after 1995 and after 2000 have already taken key AI positions at Tencent, Xiaomi and other companies; the weight of resumes is declining, and robot physical demonstrations, model results and open-source project outcomes shown in short videos are becoming a new recruiting ground.