Ryan Kidd

That can't go on, you know, at that rate.

That's just way too fast.

But probably because they've done amazing advertising and marketing stuff.

Matt's has only just started to do advertising and marketing.

We had the first ever mentor

open round of applications launched just recently.

And yeah, we sponsored NeurIPS.

That was cool.

And we sponsored your podcast and several other great, great venues as well.

And I think that this is only going to cause probably the application trend to continue.

I would say, I would guess 1.5x per year, something like that, which that is a faster growth rate than the current deployed growth rate of the field.

As to why, I could speculate it's probably just caused by like a high bar, a very high bar for a lot of these companies, maybe a deficit of founders as well.

And there are plenty of organizations working to remedy that.

I know there was this AI assurance technology report from Juniper Ventures about a year ago where they predicted that the size of the market for AI assurance technologies is doubling each year.

So there is a lot of opportunity to do stuff that might contribute to AI safety.

At the Frontier Labs, no tax at all.

They're getting paid the same rates.

They're getting staggering amounts of money.

A couple years ago, the going rate for someone joining off the street was like 370K or something.

I'm sure it's much higher now, especially with the crazy meta stuff that happened.