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mattmaroon on March 7, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI

1. Don't know where you live that the all-in costs on someone with a PhD are $4k-$7k/mo. Maybe if their PhD is in anthropology.

2. How many such PhD people can it do the work of?

shellfishgene on March 7, 2025 [–]

Postdocs in Europe make about 3-4k eur/month in academic research.

madmask on March 7, 2025 | [–]

We wish, it’s more like half in many places

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