This pattern happens more often than you think. Microsoft: They make an Operating System and Office Suite. From Microsoft Research they have labs on Quantum Co

This pattern happens more often than you think. Microsoft: They make an Operating System and Office Suite. From Microsoft Research they have labs on Quantum Computing, they have five Turing Award winners (One is Leslie Lamport) and he developed TLA+ while employed there. Facebook: A social network Funds a bunch of Deep Learning Research and NLP. Elon Musk: Helped create PayPal, now does electric cars and rockets, (Tesla, SpaceX) NVIDIA: Made graphics cards for video games. Now those same devices allow for deep learning.