AI talent

“Proprietary data pools and AI talent are the new natural limited resources. They are the new oil and gold, if you will.”

“If you think about where the best talent in AI is right now, I think it's open AI. And then I think everyone would tell you it is Google and Facebook and Microsoft and Amazon. And maybe there are folks that have kind of dripped their way into the startup ecosy…”

“The talent is very, very distributed. It will get more distributed, and I think you should get close to your customers.”

“The only small-scale acquires that we are seeing take place currently is acquisitions where there is incredibly desirable AI talent within the startups, and incumbents are purely acquiring those companies for that AI talent and integrating them into their exis…”

“Like the most extreme offers that you get is like people are going to pay Sell it like government is going to pay salaries for three to five years. For your top AI talent. Like, they're gonna do that.”

“If you're a 25 year old recent grad from an elite university who is perceived to be an AI expert, you can get a fifty hundred million dollar pay package right now. And if you are a brand name that everyone recognizes your name, you can get a billion dollar pay…”

“I don't think it becomes that productive to put a bunch of AI superstars all together in a room without the execution machine, without the social glue.”

“If you have too much talent and not enough compute, you're wasting your time, so usually like an equilibrium between those two pieces.”

“And as these companies scale and they have to create more differentiated products, I think having AI talent is going to matter again.”

“But if you now start to talk about, okay, AI talent, ML talent top people are sought after, you know, way more than ever before. And also the pay scales have completely changed and not just from the model companies, but even from startups, because, you know, s…”

“Now we're seeing three bands of compensation. We're seeing the regular human beings, then we're seeing the AI guys, and then we're seeing the one to five superstars that we're talking about, right? That I have to that I have to find a seven figure package for …”