I don't think this is true. He strikes me as a person motivated by curiosity and interesting problems.
replyStill, one can buy lot of interesting problems with that money.
replyAs a OpenAI founder he already is long past the point of money being a consideration.
replyThe 2010s founders, how much are they worth?
replyIt's the only way he could get more tokens beyond the Max 20x plan lol.
replyCome on, he definitely has more money than he needs given his past employers. For someone with his creative output, he probably just enjoys having an environment to build and explore.
replyYour argument contradicts itself.
replyIf money was not an issue he could just build that environment for himself.
You can’t build “working with amazing people”. At least not in a short amount of time. I bet that this was a significant part of the decision for Andrej.
replyThe overhead of maintaining and running things isn't interesting to most creative folk. They'd rather others deal with the minutiae (managing a company, etc) so they can focus on their thing.
replyi can play by myself, or i can join some friends, and make the play more joyful
replyNo, money is not the only barrier to building things. I think karoathy could build his own lab if he wanted, but it would be years of doing things he doesn’t want. Why waste time running a business when he’d rather be researching?
replyDo you have any idea how much it costs to build a frontier model and how much money it takes to enable R&D at the cutting edge?
replyTrue.
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