Google's Denny Zhou: The Biggest Research Divide Is Access to Top Models and Compute
denny_zhou · x · 2026-09-10
Denny Zhou, prominent Google researcher, says the biggest divide in research today is access to the most capable AI models and the compute to put them to work — highlighting a structural gap between compute-rich labs and everyone else.
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