Underrated Polish Talent!!!

what about Grok

There’s a bunch of Poles working at OpenAI. The problem is that they all left Poland many years, sometimes decades ago to do great things elsewhere. Not something to celebrate but a national and european tragedy, in my opinion.

Łukasz Kaiser co-authored the famous 2017 *Attention is all you need* paper (then working for Google) that started the LLM revolution. He left Poland after his Master’s in 2003. Zaremba doesn’t even mention on his LinkedIn that he studied in Warsaw, before doing his Master’s in Paris and then moving to NYC in 2013.

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That’s like Indians being “proud” that half of Silicon Valley’s CEOs are Indian, instead of asking why those people don’t stay in India do build stuff.

What the government should do is help the next generation to stay in Poland. A few days ago eight Poles won medals in an AI Olympiad in Beijing, Krzysztof Rojek from Wrocław came in first. Give them full-ride scholarships to study whatever they want without worrying about money, plus and half a million złoty each to be used for a start up. No strings attached. That’s how you might create the next unicorn in Poland.

Thanks Poland, not thanks.

Ciebie dziekuje bardzo.