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> Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. False. They acquired a company.
by hehehheh 2y ago
> Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company.
False. They acquired a company.
- piva00 2y agoYeah, they acquired the company to get Noam Shazeer back. The whole rest of the company was a bonus.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoThey already had all the same people and resources as that company. They don't need it's computers, or it's staff, or it's customers, or it's name. They aquired nothing but a load of integration and hr problems. They aquired a single person, who will head a team exactly the same as he could have previously. The only difference is now he proved his point. The article characterization is not only valid, it's not even hyperbole. It's actually plain dry recitation of events.