Comment by philipallstar

While that may have felt good to write, I'm not sure that it changes the fact that this sounds like private funding of public research, rather than as was stated, public funding of private research.

Your comment I was replying to, as an aide-mémoire:

> I live in Cambridge, MA there are dozens of these relationships going on; big tech offers lucrative access to cutting edge hardware in return for closed research.

> Just more insidious ways on how big tech requires massive amounts of welfare to exist and persist.