@AnjneyMidha: ~5 yrs ago, a group of us grad school friends met for lunch at neurips ~90% worked at deepmind or meta (it was still co…
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A personal anecdote highlights how many early-career AI researchers from DeepMind and Meta have left to found highly successful startups.
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~5 yrs ago, a group of us grad school friends met for lunch at neurips
~90% worked at deepmind or meta (it was still cool to be there)
~75% have since left for startups
~40% are now liquid billionaires
~20% run companies with 100s of millions of users
a remarkable period
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