Plan alleged to lure academics with limited AI compute, then run their ideas in-house
ns123abc · x · 2026-09-09
ns123abc claims a scheme where researchers are given AI access under limited compute budgets, and once the company has harvested their academic data and ideas, it runs the research internally with unlimited compute. His follow-up "it's actually happening" suggests this is underway, though no company or specifics are named.
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