[nshm]

Looks like a research in machine learning will only be done in huge corporations. You'll need an amount of funding comparable to LHC.

Time to use better models like kernel ensembles, maybe they are not that accurate, but they are easier to train on a single CPU.

[Houshalter]

You can already do deep learning on cheap consumer hardware. And $100k is expensive, but it's nowhere near LHC levels.

[Fomite]

This price point is extremely accessible to most major research universities as well.