Academia's funding squeeze: should CS research focus on foundations, not scale?
nandofioretto · x · 2026-10-25
Researcher Nilofar Mire laments that securing grants to support labs has become harder than raising VC/angel money, and that people have advised her to stop publicly releasing her chem/bio environments and sell them to labs instead to fund other projects. nandofioretto responds that academic work, at least in CS, should focus on foundations rather than scale. A revealing glimpse into how the LLM era is squeezing academic labs between open release and commercialization.
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