Academia vs. Industry: Who Deserves Credit for LLM Breakthroughs?
kuza55 · x · 2026-08-20
A discussion regarding the origins of breakthroughs in (L)LMs, pretraining, and Transformers. The user argues that while academia was essential pre-2012, recent major breakthroughs seem to have emerged outside of academic settings. It is suggested that academia, constrained by funding and averse to scale, might not have pursued this path independently.
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