Researcher Says Winning Grants Is Harder Than Raising VC, May Stop Free Data Releases

AI researcher Nilofar Mire says securing academic funding is now harder than raising VC, and she may stop releasing her chem/bio environment datasets for free, sparking debate over whether academia should focus on basic research or chase scale and commercialization.

2026-10-25 ~ 2026-10-25 · 2 related posts

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