Google is offering an 8 figure package (in the range of 9 – 12 Million USD over the course of 3 years) to the deep learning engineer(s) in question to shift over from NVIDIA. There are rumors of an all-out raid going on for talent related to deep learning right now over at Google’s and this could very well be just a drop in the bucket. Deep Learning is one of the key areas of growth that chip makers and independent design houses could benefit from and it is clear why Google would want to hire the best talent from the one company on earth that has already made a name for itself in GPGPU ecosystem (I am talking of course about CuDNN). For those of you wondering, as far as non-competes go, since the state of California does not recognize any non-compete clauses, they are worth less than toilet paper (to quote a friend).As you may have noticed, artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning have been some of the hottest IT buzz words of the year. There is a lot going on in this area and, at least at the moment, NVIDIA is the undisputed leader in this market. NVIDIA not only has its GPUs but also has an elaborate ecosystem that it has been nurturing for a lot of years.
Google spending millions to hire NVIDIA deep learning talent
Posted on Tuesday, November 28 2017 @ 11:17 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck