I like this article A tougher question for me here is the why, vs how: 'Why research LLMs in academia if you can work in industry on the same problems with mor

I like this article A tougher question for me here is the why, vs how: 'Why research LLMs in academia if you can work in industry on the same problems with more resources?'. Systems researchers face something similar, where big systems are easier to research at Google etc. and get paid much more to do so. The bit on Reasoning seems relevant: many industry roles for that will be taken by people ahead of the pre-graduation student, and it's research that fewer industry labs will be doing in an extreme way than say engineering more efficient inferencing. Doing that kind of research today is a lot more exciting than when we were doing it 10 years ago, so it's a special time.