CEO Says He Tried to Hire an AI Researcher from Meta and Was Told to ‘Come Back to Me When You Have 10,000 H100 GPUs’

This article originally appeared on Business Insider.

Recruiting AI talent can be a tough feat for some companies.

Aravind Srinivas, the founder and CEO of Perplexity, an AI-powered question-and-answer engine, described his interaction with a job candidate that shows how hard it can be to hire people with generative AI skills.

“I tried to hire a very senior researcher from Meta, and you know what they said? ‘Come back to me when you have 10,000 H100 GPUs,'” Srinivas said on a recent episode of the business advice podcast “Invest Like the Best.”

H100 GPUs refer to Nvidia’s highly coveted graphic-processing units that tech giants like Meta,

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