Alexander Rose mentioned a conversation with Saul Griffith where he reverse-engineered that the Google research budget is now larger than DARPA, and this suggests Google is looking for different kinds of wins than DARPA would be in pure research.
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“the Google research budget is now larger than DARPA and clearly they're looking for different kinds of winds than DARPA would be in pure research”
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The Secret Life of Lightning: The Science of Giant Tesla Coils | Greg Leyh— The Long Now FoundationCreated: 8/12/2026, 10:15:24 PM
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