Stanford's Chris Manning: universities fund CS like it's 2005 and are losing AI professors to frontier labs
stanfordnlp · x · 2026-09-18
Stanford NLP professor Chris Manning argues universities are losing AI faculty to frontier labs for two reasons: funding models frozen in the 1990-2010 era when a laptop sufficed, and growing bureaucratization. One researcher notes a few simple experiments for a recent AI paper cost $20-50k — to which a neuroscience PhD friend replied that's just one small biology experiment. As the reposter puts it, the low-capex era of frontier CS is sadly over.
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