Sam Altman feels Silicon Valley has lost its innovation culture, saying great research hasn’t happened there in a ‘long time’::“Before OpenAI, what was the last really great scientific breakthrough that came out of a Silicon Valley company?” Altman said on a Wednesday podcast.

  • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Bell labs was a real outlier.

    It was funded by a regulated monopoly, with the government saying that a percentage of all profits had to go to R&D. They were not even allowed to give Unix to anyone other than universities, let alone profit of it.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. This is a detrimental difference. It was not an unregulated virulent profit mongering corporation.