In the CNN boom days after alexnet the playbook was: take your research lab, slap a c crop and new logo on it, keep doing your research and get acquired by FANG

In the CNN boom days after alexnet the playbook was: take your research lab, slap a c crop and new logo on it, keep doing your research and get acquired by FANG for high 8 figures. Only difference in this cycle is that you can't do real LLM research in academia these days so all of the top researchers are already at FANG.