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Y Combinator General Partner Ankit Gupta proposes a tenfold budget increase for NIH and NSF to fund university AI training datasets

Training access would be restricted exclusively to US entities.

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Ankit Gupta@agupta

I agree with @JTLonsdale on these suggestions.

I’ll add one more. aggressively expand the most successful public-private partnership in American history: the research university system.

We should 10x the budgets of the NIH and NSF and fund massive dataset buildouts through universities that can be used to power the next gen AI systems. Training on those datasets can be restricted to American entities for a number of years to bolster our industries.

and yes we can reform the parts of academia that need fixing in parallel. There is no world in which America wins in which the majority of new basic science is happening abroad.

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Animesh Garg@animesh_garg

The recognition that American universities are fundamentally different from everywhere else is key!

Their role in public-private partnership in research enabled creation of immense value and it is incredibly short-sighted to cut budgets

Investment in research is venture in the public with power law returns for the society at large.

Ankit Gupta@agupta

I agree with @JTLonsdale on these suggestions.

I’ll add one more. aggressively expand the most successful public-private partnership in American history: the research university system.

We should 10x the budgets of the NIH and NSF and fund massive dataset buildouts through universities that can be used to power the next gen AI systems. Training on those datasets can be restricted to American entities for a number of years to bolster our industries.

and yes we can reform the parts of academia that need fixing in parallel. There is no world in which America wins in which the majority of new basic science is happening abroad.

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