[KeplerBoy]

Feels like the opposite.

Stuff is still happening and you need to be part of a big lab to see it. NanoGPT is fun but at some point you need that datacenter.

[zitoshi]

I would guess he's never left out at whats happening, because he's still highly connected with those people even when not at the company.

I also feel like there are many ways he can access compute for use of his own ideas.