I remember a blog post on HN from an ex-DeepMind/Google Brain person who postulated that the research group existed for visibility; you use the research to attr

I remember a blog post on HN from an ex-DeepMind/Google Brain person who postulated that the research group existed for visibility; you use the research to attract talent who sees the cool stuff you work on and gets excited, but once hired funnel that talent elsewhere in the company to attract clicks or generate money. Research as advertising.