@swyx: people hating on europe miss that they actually have some of the top ai engineers in the world if you actually to elici…
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Shawn Wang (@swyx) argues that Europe has top AI engineers despite criticism, and that his organization is running the most competitive global arena for AI talent as measured by talks and workshops.
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people hating on europe miss that they actually have some of the top ai engineers in the world if you actually to elicit the right ones.
we’re basically running the most competitive global arena for ai talent (as measured by talks and workshops), will be v interesting to see how this goes as WF enters the eval window
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