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I use to believe that the business model of Microsoft was just selling an overpriced Operating System and Microsoft Office to governments and businesses. I used to believe that the business model of Google was gathering data and selling accurate ads.

I was recently surprised to discover they have research subsidiaries called Microsoft Research and Google Deepmind

Microsoft Research employs more than 1,000 computer scientists, physicists, engineers, and mathematicians, including Turing Award winners, Fields Medal winners, MacArthur Fellows, and Dijkstra Prize winners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind

The founder of Deep Mind received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis

Do they do actual research here or is this junk science?

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[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

In France most software companies only pretend to do R&D in order to get lower taxes on some salaries. But it's never research.