An interesting article about how difficult it is for AI startups to recruit AI talent:
The CEO of an AI startup said he wasn't able to hire a researcher from Meta because his company didn't have enough GPUs.
www.businessinsider.com
"I tried to hire a very senior researcher from Meta, and you know what they said? 'Come back to me when you have 10,000 H100 GPUs'," Srinivas said on a recent episode of the advice podcast "Invest Like The Best."
"That would cost billions and take 5 to 10 years to get from Nvidia," Srinivas said."
"The CEO added that even if smaller firms like Perplexity are finally able to get Nvidia's chips, they'll continue to fall behind because of AI's rapid speed of development.
That could make it even harder to secure AI talent in the future.
"By the time you waited and got the money and booked the cluster and got it, the guys working here will have already made the next-generation model," Srinivas said, referring to AI talent at major tech companies."