My bet, is Yann got a huge set of packages with the AI talent race, and what may have been a $10M/4yr package may now suddenly be 70M+.
Unlikely any other AI lab would be liquid like that.
The most obvious options are
1) An insane amount of compensation.
2) Access to an insane amount of compute to train new LLMs.
Are you familiar with realities of incorporating a startup in the EU?
And did when we were part of the EU.
Cheaper and quicker than America.
You don't incorporate in the EU, you incorporate in one of the 27 different countries.
All have wildly different requirements.
Don't judge me, I'm living in the EU and I love the place, but regulations and business climate are definitely not great.
Karpathy, Alec Radford, and a ton of their old students are practically free agents right now who could probably be convinced to join.
There's probably even a chance of someone like Wojciech Zaremba leaving OpenAI to join them.
EU would build them CERN style compute clusters to train healthcare, education, climate, etc models.
I'm sure there's plenty of people at HuggingFace, Eluther, old Stability AI group who'd also love to get involved.
human nature will never change.
q: what is the definition of an optimist?
a: a person with no experience.
q; what is the definition of a pessimist?
a: an optimist with experience.
mine ;)
I would never work at Meta, not because refusing to do so would make me feel good, but because working there would make me feel like I'm making the world a worse place.
Maybe he's happy with his compensation, his coworkers, the food at the cafeteria and doesn't want to uproot his life or be burdened with running a company.
>I can imagine he's not happy with Zuck's capitulation
Who did Zuck capitulate to?
There's a pretty decent list of the actions and changes at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/technology/meta-mark-zuck....
1: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/china-s-president-...
you just have to take a look at his face, and those mad staring eyes.
SV """tech""" companies have had this stigma since at least mid-2010s. Don't you remember the awfulness of Uber's CEO?
A lot of bros in tech delude themselves that they are the "in touch" ones and actually no, it's not chauvinism and misogyny it's just some "masculine energy" but it's always been lies.
It really shouldn't be this surprising that the same people who swear that there's nothing wrong with tech that results in it's INSANE gender ratios despite historical evidence that women love to code continue to ignore obvious signs of their bad behavior.
IDK, maybe it's proximity to hollywood and it's wealth of rich chauvinists and sex predators. Maybe california has something in the water that makes rich men act like sex predators. Or maybe they are a representative sample of male behavior when in positions of power over women in the USA and they just get outed more.