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We have 8 months left. They’re going to crash the economy once Trump is back.
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Since people still can’t wrap their minds around the fact the Gaza death toll hasn’t changed
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If the US were to invade India, how quickly would the US win?
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Meta E6 offer.
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How bad is it in meta?
Apart from Anthropic/OpenAI/DeepMind, who has the best calibre in the tech industry? Not necessarily GPT/LLM research, just CS research in general ...
Most of the foundational work was done by Google engineers many of whom eventually left to start their own billion dollar startups. Google just did not execute on the commercialization/monetizartion
The US companies are moving in the direction of dismantling/heavily reducing research teams in the US and moving them to Europe in anticipation of lower R&D costs. This has been happening for a while but it has accelerated in this economic downtime. This is one of the pitfalls of a society that is so focussed on getting immediate monetary stock returns and rich quick. Add that to the negative sentiments of immigration, and these companies have no incentives to expand their US research teams anymore. When was the last time a research focused startup like Deepmind thrived in the US? Most of them die due to funding crunch in the US. US VCs won't fund anything that has less potential of giving them a return within 10 years. That return span used to be 20 years before.
Industry funded research is mostly AI research. Amazon does almost entirely applied research, applied scientists are always doing a mix of customer facing work and publishing. FAIR has moved in that direction too. Uber shutdown their research teams entirely several years back, as far as I know.
Uber have analytics research that does collabs with big names in academia, but idk if they publish
Got it. Their AI research org was dismantled, and most of the folks there trickled back to Amazon, Google and the like.