Jensen Huang says he will be 'deeply alarmed' if his $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 of tokens
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Jensen Huang says he will be 'deeply alarmed' if his $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 of tokens
"If that $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 worth of tokens, I am going to be deeply alarmed. That $500,000 engineer at the end of the year, I'm going to ask them how much did you spend in tokens? If that person said $5,000, I will go ape something else."
"We're trying to spend $2 billion on tokens for our engineering team. This is no different than one of our chip designers who says, 'Guess what? I'm just going to use paper and pencil.'"
"They're going to make a few hundred thousand dollars a year, their base pay. I'm going to give them probably half of that on top of it as tokens so that they could be amplified 10X."
"How many tokens comes along with my job? And the reason for that is very clear, because every engineer that has access to tokens will be more productive."
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, expressed concern over engineers not utilizing enough AI tokens, stating that a top engineer should spend significantly on tokens. He indicated that if an engineer earning $500,000 only spent $5,000 on tokens, it would be alarming. Huang mentioned that Nvidia aims to spend $2 billion on tokens for its engineering team. He views token access as a recruitment tool, enhancing productivity and amplifying engineers' capabilities, making it a critical factor in hiring decisions in Silicon Valley.
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