alt Hacker NewsIf you are a top AI researcher, there is no good reason to go to Amazon. For what? Pay? Career development? Company prospect? Work-life balance? You get nothing compared to what other companies offer.
And I say, good. We need new, smaller companies with different cultures in this space. We don't want these giant corporations to dominate and control everything.
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Amazon and Apple have never had fundamental research groups. Even before LLMs, the top big-tech fundamental labs were FAIR, Google Research and MSR.
It has never been in Amazon or Apple's DNA to chase a product that doesn't have clear revenue outcomes (as long as adoption lands). AI is no different.
IMO, it's the right decision for Amazon and wrong decision for Apple.
This. It's weird how most of the top tech companies are all morphing into amorphous blobs that want to get into everything and are indistinguishable from each other.
Yeah, they will come, new companies from China, that will eat the market too, with their beautiful 996 work life balance, and we will go back to growing corn.
As a bonus you will have a very long vacation.
We, the tech, are literally a leftover of the once overwhelming engineering superiority of the west that will shrink in the next 5 years.
The problem is that when you start that smaller company and it gets successful, you will be acquired. Big companies rarely build things anymore.
Smaller companies will still be VC backed, which limits the variation you'll see in culture
Even if you’re a mid-tier AI researcher… or even a hobbyist one, I can’t see a good reason to go to Amazon.
If that is how you feel, then the reason for why it currently is the way it is should not give you much comfort. It's not like Amazon can not decide to change things and throw more money at the issue from a different angle in the future.
Yep Amazon should be split up. No reason that AWS, Alexa, satellite internet, their online store, and groceries have to be one company.
The current SoA AI requires massive investment and CPU time (which isn't free)
No matter who is funding that, they are going to be pushing hard for a return (ell, unless they like money going up in smoke)
AWS has now become one of the most hated tools, right next to Jenkins.
Amazon is turning into a dinosaur like Cisco or IBM.
> We need new, smaller companies with different cultures in this space
we need new, smaller companies with different cultures in every space but won’t be getting any in any space, especially not in this one