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> He should have done his own lab Which raises the question: what can he do at Anthropic that he couldn't on his own?
by JumpCrisscross 6mo ago
> He should have done his own lab
Which raises the question: what can he do at Anthropic that he couldn't on his own?
- TrackerFF 6mo agoSeems to me that you need incredible amounts of money to be competitive in the frontier model arena. I don't know how much money Karpathy has to spend, but I'd imagine that the money needed would almost certainly mean investors with deep pockets. And then there's the uncertainty, will the AI "wars" be some winner-takes-all situation? Will the smaller labs eventually be acquired by the bigger ones, will they simply wash away if there's a crash? I don't know. If you can land some exceptional gig at the big firms, maybe the financials are good enough to not start your own lab. Minimizing risk, and all that. EDIT: Assuming such a startup would focus on frontier models.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> you need incredible amounts of money to be competitive in the frontier model arena This is my assumption. > there's the uncertainty, will the AI "wars" be some winner-takes-all situation? Will the smaller labs eventually be acquired by the bigger ones, will they simply wash away if there's a crash? He's Andrej Karpathy. He could wait to let the winner surface. Obviously better to get in with the winner earlier. But worse to get on the wrong team versus on the right team late.
- skywhopper 6mo agoMake a lot of money.
- shuckles 6mo agoHe can be at the frontier while just having a regular job. Every other option is a lot more work.
- UltraSane 6mo agoAccess to a million GPUs?