Although that is impressive, isn't it just a side effect of the way AI companies have a culture of publishing research papers, some of which these days are sort

Although that is impressive, isn't it just a side effect of the way AI companies have a culture of publishing research papers, some of which these days are sort of more elaborate blog posts? There are probably quite a lot of people who have worked on some cool projects 7 years out from graduation, but in fields where they don't get to publish papers about it.