Sam Altman feels Silicon Valley has lost its innovation culture, saying great research hasn’t happened there in a ‘long time’::“Before OpenAI, what was the last really great scientific breakthrough that came out of a Silicon Valley company?” Altman said on a Wednesday podcast.
You hit the nail on the head. The computer mouse and the TCP/IP protocols were invented at Cal Berkeley. Stanford was doing AI before it was cool, hell before computers were even cool. Silicon Valley’s history is actually an academic one, not a private one