Industry is not going to fund the overwhelming majority of research areas in biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc. Data science and AI are an exception

Industry is not going to fund the overwhelming majority of research areas in biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc. Data science and AI are an exception, where people in industry are much better paid, and can get access to much better resources that would be hard to afford in academia... It’s not surprising this type of advance came from an industry funded group. On the other hand, it is academia and its structure that has enabled so many other discoveries, for example, Crispr DNA tech, our understanding of gravitational waves, or the proof of the Poincaré conjecture.