Academic slams trillion-dollar AI lab: calling it 'concurrent work' is laughable
aran_nayebi · x · 2026-10-04
In a debate with Florent Krzakala, EPFL's Lenka Zdeborova argues that academia is usually generous about concurrent work because young researchers' careers depend on it — but for a trillion-dollar company running one of the most powerful AI systems to claim 'concurrent work' is 'plain laughable,' criticizing big labs for leaning on academic norms to dodge priority disputes.
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