{"id":172583,"date":"2023-09-23T00:22:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T05:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/nvidia-engineers-message-to-google-ai-researchers-leave-your-company"},"modified":"2023-09-23T00:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T05:22:47","slug":"nvidia-engineers-message-to-google-ai-researchers-leave-your-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/nvidia-engineers-message-to-google-ai-researchers-leave-your-company","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia Engineer\u2019s Message to Google AI Researchers: Leave Your Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nvidia-engineers-message-to-google-ai-researchers-leave-your-company2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Jacopo Pantaleoni<\/b> joined <b>Nvidia<\/b> in 2001 when the company had less than 500 employees. He worked on what was then a small research project to improve Nvidia\u2019s graphics processing units so they could better render images on computers and gaming consoles.<\/p>\n<p>More than two decades later, Nvidia has more than 26,000 employees and its GPUs are at the center of the generative AI explosion. Pantaleoni had climbed the ranks to become a principal engineer and research scientist, one of the highest ranking positions for an individual contributor, he says. Then, in July, as Nvidia boomed like no other company, Pantaleoni says he resigned, giving up a substantial amount of unvested stock units, after coming to a realization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis market of machine learning, artificial intelligence\u201d is \u201calmost entirely driven by the big players\u2014 <b>Googles<\/b>, <b>Amazons<\/b>, <b>Metas<\/b>\u201d\u2014that have the \u201cenormous amounts of data and enormous amounts of capital\u201d to develop AI at scale. Those companies are also Nvidia\u2019s biggest customers. \u201cThis was not the world I wanted to help build,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacopo Pantaleoni joined Nvidia in 2001 when the company had less than 500 employees. He worked on what was then a small research project to improve Nvidia\u2019s graphics processing units so they could better render images on computers and gaming consoles. More than two decades later, Nvidia has more than 26,000 employees and its GPUs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}