“considering they are likely attempting to monetise this as much as possible (I hate this mindset, hope it fails!).” In the history of getting science out the

“considering they are likely attempting to monetise this as much as possible (I hate this mindset, hope it fails!).” In the history of getting science out the door, it turns out that the ability to monetize makes it far more likely to happen. This is game theoretically true because the first entity that wastes all the effort figuring out how to scale would immediately be copied (first mover disadvantage). We need well funded capital projects to have a mechanism to make their existence low risk, especially when it comes to materials science which is far more expensive to scale than software.