AI science has become about discovering frontier companies' secrets; open research is critical
rao2z · x · 2026-08-13
The author argues that AI science, meant to discover nature's secrets, has increasingly become about uncovering frontier companies' secrets. This makes academic and open model research more critical than ever.
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