Anderson: $1M+ salaries can make sense when GPU spend dominates burn
Brandon Anderson · 🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White · Jan 28, 2026 · at 53:14
Atomic AI engineer Brandon Anderson pushes back against Andrew White's critique of high startup salaries.
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“In terms of like total spend on GPUs, it can still be a total, a small fraction of your burn. So sometimes it kind of makes sense.”
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