AIAI research funding and the struggle to keep professors in academia
Universities haven't adapted their funding to AI's costs, a Stanford professor argues in remarks shared by MTSlive. He also blames growing bureaucracy for making academia a worse research environment.
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MTSlive shares a Stanford professor's argument that universities are losing AI faculty to frontier labs because funding hasn't kept up with research costs. He says new AI faculty need multimillion-dollar support like physics and chemistry hires. He calls Stanford's Marlowe cluster of 256 H100s an “okay baby step,” saying there probably needs to be about 10 times that much computing capacity. A user sharing the remarks says a few simple experiments for their latest AI paper cost roughly $20,000–$50,000.
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AI research funding and the struggle to keep professors in academia
Universities haven't adapted their funding to AI's costs, a Stanford professor argues in remarks shared by MTSlive. He also blames growing bureaucracy for making academia a worse research environment.