Top AI labs lure talent with huge token budgets, not just AGI work
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-21
A reply-thread comment argues that one more reason to join a top AI lab is access to huge compute budgets: you may not work directly on AGI, but you can still contribute through data, harnesses, and other supporting work while having plenty of tokens to pursue your own ideas.
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