Comment by matt_cogito
7 months ago
Am I reading this correctly: an AI researcher might get paid roughly the same amount of money as the largest transfer of a soccer player in history (Neymar at €220M)?
There is hope for humanity.
Jokes aside, how and why?
Why: Zuck knows exactly one trick, and that is to throw money at a problem.
I don't know what the current tally on his metaverse fiasco is, but if he can spend billions upon billions on that, then poaching AI researchers and engineers for a fraction of that isn't really out of character.
At least part of is is that the capex for LLM training is so high. It used to be that compute was extremely cheap compared to staff, but that's no longer the case for large model training.
How: Meta has the money because they presumably have infinite margins.
Why: Its a bubble.