Researcher says winning grants is now harder than raising VC, may stop open-sourcing chem/bio envs
niloofar_mire · x · 2026-10-25
niloofarmire, a researcher building chemistry/biology simulation environments, laments academia's plight: getting grants and funding labs has become much harder than raising VC or angel money.
People keep telling her to stop releasing the team's chem/bio environments fully publicly and instead sell them to labs, using the revenue to fund other projects. The post reflects a wider anxiety about AI research funding tilting toward industry and open-source research becoming unsustainable.
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