[paxys]

I’m not sure why this is so surprising? AI company does not automatically mean research company. The vast majority of new startups popping up over the last few years have commercial motivations, and use models built by someone else. Why are you expecting them to publish scientific papers?

50% of startups contributing to public research is actually a crazy good outcome. That’s far more than I had expected.

[DonsDiscountGas]

Also the reason we fund science publicly is because we can't count on the incentives from the free market. I mean why would they share information with competitors?

[saidnooneever]

in most fields its normal for research to become IP rather than papers to keep competitive edge. so this seems really normal stuff tbh...

also, first people complain that only AI companies publish on AI, and now they complain the same companies stop those same publications :'). it is never good.

[HDBaseT]

When the second biggest player is named 'OpenAI', I would expect some papers to be published.

[antonvs]

OpenAI and Anthropic are identified in the article and study as top publishers of AI research papers.

[_0ffh]

I don't see that, where do you read that?

Also, what kind of papers do they publish at all?

When I look at the recently (say, last 1-2 years) published practical improvements in the LM space, they're not even close to what the Chinese are publishing.

[saidnooneever]

that name implies nothing. it did when it started and promptly pivoted away from that meaning once money got involved...