Some financially independent friends have asked: without a salary, is there any way to get into a frontier lab? The response from these frontier labs is that the GPU costs and token costs consumed by each person far exceed their salary; the resources wasted by someone who can't
Frontier labs say unpaid entry still too costly
Financially independent people asked about joining frontier labs without salary. The labs' response: each person's GPU and token consumption far exceeds a salary, and wasted resources are unaffordable.