Billionaire Databricks and Perplexity Co-Founder Pitches AI Researchers to Not Work for Big Tech

The billionaire co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, Andy Konwinski, is singularly focused on plugging the years-long drain of talent from academia to Big Tech. He wants to encourage academics to focus on publishing openly available research, a reaction to the move by frontier AI companies to reduce the amount of AI research they publish as they race against one another to develop the best models and AI tools.