AI research funding and the struggle to keep professors in academia

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.