Fei-Fei Li: R&D is forking into token-abundant and token-starved paths
zhaoran_wang · x · 2026-09-09
Fei-Fei Li says R&D is forking into two paths — token-abundant and token-starved research — with top AI industry teams and neolabs showing breathtaking progress as AI supercharges researchers. Humphrey Shi adds that research's future is agent-native: universities must move beyond AI access toward rethinking research and education to build agentic systems that expand human capability.
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