Why would they join you rather than founding their own company?
Once you (as in you the person) have the expertise, what you need all the people for exactly? To fine-tuning you need to figure out the architecture, how to train, how to infer, pick together the dataset and then run the training (optionally setup a pipeline so the customer can run the "add more data -> train" process themselves). What in this process you need to hire so many people for?
> Why would they join you rather than founding their own company?
Same as always, in any industry, not everyone wants to lead and not everyone wants to follow.
Read Andrej’s blog that I linked earlier in the thread if you want to understand why.
Pick the right customers.
> Why would they join you rather than founding their own company?
The network effects of having enough resources in one place. For having other teams deal with the training data, infrastructure, deployment, etc.
That’s fair, one market segment of this is sometimes called sovereign compute.
Another common model that I have seen is to become the deepmind for one very large and important customer.
I think this works.
