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Those were government projects.

Think about all the useful and necessary things that professional athlete's salaries dwarf.

I feel that at least these researchers are getting paid their perceived value instead of all that value being absorbed by FANNG.

I think AI research is sort of like cutting a diamond, where every few percent more efficient could result in huge sums saved in infrastructure costs for training and inference and Capex.



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