60% of R&D budgets go to wages—AI research teams may favor small companies
mariofilhoml · x · 2026-10-25
About 60% of R&D budgets across industries go to researcher wages, so AI that can do research can boost yield for large companies. But the author's bet is that the real innovation explosion will come from thousands of smaller companies that can now afford AI-enabled research teams.
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