“Given this relatively small amount of people so far means that we have a lot of compute per person… you can do a lot of experiments just like one person.”

Training Data · David Silver and Lasse Espeholt of Ineffable Intelligence: A Superlearner for the Age of Experience

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Maintain a very small team (≈20 hires) to keep a high compute-per-person ratio, allowing one person to run many experiments

20 people hired total

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