Has industry replaced academia in AI? | Pioneers of AI
About Anima
- Invented Neural Operators; created AI-based weather & climate modeling field
- Built first high-res AI weather model; 10,000x+ faster, used by agencies
- Bren Professor at Caltech; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAI
- Led AI research at NVIDIA; former Principal Scientist at AWS
- Won TIME 100 Impact Award; ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize
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The AI boom wouldn’t have been possible without decades of academic research. And now that huge sums of money are flowing into R&D, it’s companies – not just universities – on the cutting edge of AI innovation. What does that mean for the future of AI research and the relationship between industry and academia? Rana sat down with a panel of experts who have a foot in both worlds, in another standout session from the stage of Fortune Brainstorm AI in San Francisco. Anima Anandkumar (Caltech, formerly Nvidia), Daphne Koller (Stanford, founder/CEO of insitro), and Raquel Urtasun (University of Toronto, founder/CEO of Waabi) share how research expertise goes hand in hand with business innovation, especially around AI’s ability to more accurately model the physical world.
