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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
When companies that throw around billions of dollars like its nothing claim they have done something no scientist or mathematician ever could, remember that NIH's total annual budget is $48b, NSF's is $8.75b ..... And OpenAI had $34b of costs and expenses in 2025, including a $19b R&D budget.
NIH and NSF pay for most basic research in the US across all disciplines. OpenAI makes consumer language models and language model accessories. If any single problem had a $19b R&D budget like LLMs do, no fucking shit progress would go up like a hockeystick