There's a good reason Gurobi is so expensive, and the company hires so many stellar optimization experts. Building a top-tier solver is hard, and short of a par

There's a good reason Gurobi is so expensive, and the company hires so many stellar optimization experts. Building a top-tier solver is hard, and short of a paradigm shift I don't see this as a realistic timeline given the low funding they're asking for, and what I've heard about previous attempts to match Gurobi with far more funding.