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The tweet speculates on the potential financial impact for an engineer if NVIDIA's $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face goes through, emphasizing a high return on equity despite dilution.
This essay applies Ivan Illich's 1973 argument about speed limits for vehicles to computing, suggesting that above a threshold, increased computing power yields negative social returns and that politically determined limits on hardware could reduce inequity, using e-bike speed restrictions as a modern example.
Alphabet announces an $80 billion equity capital raise to expand its AI infrastructure and computing capabilities, signaling a massive commitment to advancing AI technology.
A developer gave up Google DeepMind acquisition equity and left voluntarily. He joined Codeium two years ago, developed the Windsurf product and trained the programming model SWE-1. The company was then acquired by DeepMind for $240 million, but he chose to resign.
Sam Altman is offering Y Combinator founders $2 million in OpenAI tokens in exchange for equity in their startups.
This position paper argues that machine learning research should prioritize ideas over benchmarks and theoretical guarantees, proposing an 'Ideas First' framework that values behavioral signatures and tailored experiments to promote equity and scientific understanding.