tszzl: nearly impossible to find top AI talent outside the labs' orbit over the past decade
nitarshan · x · 2026-09-14
Quoting @tszzl: asked which categories of AI talent might exist outside the major labs, he picks the latter two and asserts it's 'pretty much an impossible ask' to find talented AI people who were not in some way in the orbit of the labs over the last decade — implying frontier labs have absorbed or covered nearly all top talent.
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