AI has left the lab the conferences and journals are all second class citizens to corporate labs at this point. So many technology people wanted to return to the “Bell Labs” model of monopolist controlled innovation, well, you got it.

I’ve been to CVPR, NeurIPS and AGI conferences over the last decade and they used to be where progress in AI was displayed.

No longer. Progress is all in your github and increasingly only dominated by the “new” AI companies (Deepmind, OAI, Anthropic, Alibaba etc…)

No major landscape shifting breakthroughs have come out of CSAIL, BAIR, NYU, TuM etc in ~the last 5 years.

I’d expect this will continue as the only thing that matters at this point is architecture data and compute.