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That doesn't follow from anything. Research is part methodical slog, part lottery, maybe a pinch of intelligence. A few labs won the short term lottery here, and most researchers explored stuff that didn't get headlines. (And to be fair, OpenAI built a great product that catapulted lab research into popular view).

There might be some argument on other metrics - publications, students trained, lectures, recognition, whatever, that show this institute is lagging. But not being part or llms implies nothing about their success or failure.