io.net (@ionet): Google paid $2.7B to bring one of its top AI researchers back.
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Google paid $2.7B to bring one of its top AI researchers back. Then cut his team’s compute allocation. He left for OpenAI. If compute can’t be guaranteed to a $2.7B hire, startups have no chance. H100 rental prices: up 60% in a year. Cloud providers now demand multiyear contracts and up to 30% upfront. The bottleneck isn’t talent or capital. It’s access. And that’s the problem @ionet is building against.