Manning: universities fund CS like it's 2005 and keep losing AI professors to labs
chrmanning · x · 2026-09-17
Stanford professor Christopher Manning says universities are losing AI professors to frontier labs because they remain stuck in the 1990–2010 era when a laptop sufficed, while AI research now needs multi-million-dollar compute budgets — and growing bureaucracy makes academia a worse research environment.
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