If Amazon has $4B to invest into what may end up being the Theranos of AI research, why don't they have $4B to invest into their workforce and, you know, actually pay people instead of all the extra-legal shenanigans they're pulling to avoid cutting paychecks?
Edit: For those not understand what I'm referencing, Amazon is currently trying to get out of owning their Seattle offices, and are using "get back to the office" tactics to harass workers into leaving so they can dump the real estate at loss: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/unpacking-amazons-steal...
It isn't about their global payroll spend dwarfing the $4B. Its about having a sense of ethics and a grasp of math.
Whenever I see such comments I ask myself if you have no imagination what Amazons payroll looks like? They have 1.5M employees, total payroll is well beyond $100B per year.
Now over what timespan do they invest this money? 5 years? 10 years?
Do you mean investing 4B internally instead? That would not be an investment into AI or LLM that Amazon considers strategic? Would they be able to invest 4B internally specifically for this? Maybe yes, but I’d argue they already probably tried it and it did not work as well as they hoped. Or they do know it may not be as effective.
Edit: For those not understand what I'm referencing, Amazon is currently trying to get out of owning their Seattle offices, and are using "get back to the office" tactics to harass workers into leaving so they can dump the real estate at loss: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/unpacking-amazons-steal...
It isn't about their global payroll spend dwarfing the $4B. Its about having a sense of ethics and a grasp of math.