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This is a research blog post, similar to a published academic paper. Not everything is a product, that's how research works.

• rvnx 3y ago
  If we think a bit: If something is not reproducible nor public, the researchers could claim anything they want, as long as it somehow sounds plausible. A researcher working in a corporation may have good reasons to exaggerate results or cover the defects: - individual prestige (higher salary / better job) - impact on company valuation - potentially being able to claim a patent if someone else actually manage to implement the real deal - etc
  • jahewson 3y ago
    My experience has been the opposite. Corporate researchers are well-funded in stable jobs, with large teams and access to proprietary data and resources beyond the imagination of most academics. Their talents are often needed for practical internal projects as often as just doing cool research. If they work on something awesome for the company it doesn’t matter if their paper is rejected, or takes three years to get published. They tend to move between companies too, which would expose any fraud. Academics on the other hand need to maintain strong relationships with industry to be in a position other than just chasing grant money (via publications). They need their paper to be accepted, or they’re in trouble. They certainly care about prestige and patents just as much as any corporate researcher.