Fei-Fei Li: R&D is forking into token-abundant and token-starved paths
drfeifei · x · 2026-09-10
Fei-Fei Li argues AI research is splitting into token-abundant industry labs making breathtaking progress and token-starved universities, urging every research university president to reflect on the future of higher-ed research.
Rishi Bommasani traces the compute divide back to 2020 (National Research Cloud push), 2021's foundation models paper, 2022's HELM, and now model use itself: OpenAI reportedly spent over $6.5M on a single Navier-Stokes result. The stakes, he says, are frontier research across the whole university system, not just CS departments.
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