AI Funding Surge is Squeezing Academia
gerardsans · x · 2026-07-14
A respected computational neuroscientist friend noted that academia (especially outside of CS) is struggling: everyone is fighting over dwindling research grants.
Meanwhile, funding in the AI sector is more abundant than ever. Many companies claim they will "cure diseases," and researchers at frontier labs can raise millions of dollars just for a specific foundation model direction.
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