DeepMind's Dorothy Chou: The Connective Tissue Between Institutions Is Systematically Underfunded
typewriters · x · 2026-09-17
Speaking in the Funding X track at Vision Weekend UK, Dorothy Chou of Google DeepMind argued that durable innovation compounds into public good at the edges of institutions — between public and private, between disciplines, between the lab and the people — and that this critical connective tissue is systematically underfunded.
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