[iandanforth]

IMO this has significant appeal. Lots of firms can provide capital, but few can provide relevant expertise let alone training.

They seem to be trying to cover all bases with the Google Brain Residency the Machine Learning Ninja program, standard VC funding, and now this. If you have talent in ML/AI there is a way Google can help you succeed in the style of your choice. Want to be a founder? Excellent! Want to be a founder but also kinda part of Google? Sure! Are you super talented and experienced in other disciplines and want to explore AI and maybe contribute a 2-5% improvement to one of our model's performance? Yes! We have that!

[Hydraulix989]

Actually a 2-5% improvement over state-of-the-art is a research contribution in its own right.

[rsrsrs86]

In some problems this is incredible.