Smaller AI Firms Struggle to Compete for Talent and Resources with Big Tech
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CEO of AI startup Perplexity tried to hire senior researcher from Meta, was told "Come back when you have 10,000 H100 GPUs"
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H100 GPUs are scarce and expensive, costing billions over 5-10 years to acquire enough from Nvidia
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Hard for smaller companies to attract AI talent away from big tech firms with abundant resources
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Even if smaller firms get GPUs, AI moves so fast that by the time they get them, big tech talent has already moved on to next-gen models
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Critical post-training expertise like reducing chatbot inaccuracies is a key skill smaller AI firms can leverage to compete with big tech companies