DeepMind VP Nando de Freitas: Corporations Owe a Moral Debt to Academia
NandoDF · x · 2026-10-09
Nando de Freitas, VP of research at Google DeepMind, said his remarks aren't nostalgia but a reminder that corporations owe a moral debt to the academic and scientific community that helped create their vast wealth. His interlocutor noted coding agents have enabled a new era of research productivity.
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