[lumost]

aye - I suspect the other concern is hat the high entry costs can quickly lead to a "second mover" advantage. The first team spends all the money doing the hard R&D and the second team implements a slightly better version for a fraction of the money.

[nullc]

If nothing else, they'd enjoy slacking gain[1] by starting their computation with more advanced hardware.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9912202.pdf