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		sampton 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war I don't that's true. Amazon sells infrastructure to other AI companies. If they jump into the model race they become a competitor not an infrastructure provider.

ciberado 5 months ago [–]

Amazon always competes with everybody. Clients, partners... Everybody.

My intuition is that the root cause it's their frugal culture (frugal as in cheap). They don't want to start a compensation race.

awill 5 months ago | [–]

Agree. It would be really messy if they were paying AI engineers multiple time more than regular engineers.

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