| ▲ | maxglute 6 days ago | |
What does 1.7B euro buy in Europe? I ask sincerely since big players are throwing 10s-100s of billions at strategic problems these days. | ||
| ▲ | M4v3R 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
It can buy you approx. 1000 senior engineers for 20+ years. I’d say that’s a lot. | ||
| ▲ | thibaut_barrere 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
A lot of top notch engineers that will earn well enough to remain in Europe. | ||
| ▲ | esperent 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Well, according to another comment the total they raised recently is closer to 40B. No idea if that true or not, but either way limitations can often lead to breakthroughs, as we saw with Deepseek. There's almost always many more ways to succeed than just throwing money at a problem. | ||
| ▲ | touwer 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Which more and more seems a very questionable strategy | ||