Yeah: What's the goal and where's the value to investors? Goal: It's hard to see algorithms innovating except for large scale microoptimizations using higher l

Yeah: What's the goal and where's the value to investors? Goal: It's hard to see algorithms innovating except for large scale microoptimizations using higher levels of abstractions, because many everyday purposes have already been solved using whatever the developer chose to ship a product. Value: For-profit research is a really hard model to scale. Well-respected universities already do this and are more of a factory for talent (via publishing) rather than IP, so it becomes a very indirect horse bet for a business to invest in. In a sense, this would be building a double-ended marketplace of investors and researchers. Also really hard to scale.