Comment by honr
19 hours ago
My point is that it is not a real moat if other players can hire people from core research teams, and get a foothold that easily. And when/if models are good enough, you don't even need many people to form a fully functioning team.
It may actually get harder to replicate with time, not easier, even if the number of people needed to run the operation goes down. As the largest labs move towards internal RSI, the most important IP for doing that will transition into their proprietary internal infrastructure and models, none of which will ever be released and which increasingly won't be fully known or understood by the humans you might hire away.