How much does it cost to start an AI lab? 💰 Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence raised $1B with around 10 employees and no product. 💸 Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines raised $2B in seed funding, also before launching a product. 🧠 Some of the largest funding rounds in AI are going to tiny research teams with no revenue or commercial product. Why do they need billions before they’ve even built anything? #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Startups #VentureCapital #openai