Thread says academia and nonprofits are oddly absent from frontier foundation-model work
JJitsev · x · 2026-07-25
A discussion argues it is strange that almost no academic facility or nonprofit research lab is building foundation models.
- The author points to places like Stanford, Berkeley, and AI2 as obvious candidates.
- A follow-up reply adds Palantir and questions how many open-model efforts stay open only while they are far from the frontier.
- The broader point is that a coalition with less vendor lock-in — and with open frontier ambition from both academia and industry — would be more convincing.
Related event: Researchers Criticize Pseudo Open-Source and Academic AI Gap(2 posts)→
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