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Re:Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build ... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:31AM (#42789354)
I thought all the big corps had projects for the military already, if not DARPA directly, which is the org responsible for lots of university research (the counterpart to the NSF, which is the nice one that isn't funded by the military)?
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Re:Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build ... by timschmidt on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @01:35AM (#42789742)
Funding for DARPA and NSF ultimately comes from the same place. DARPA funds military research. NSF funds dual use[1] research. All of it is organized around long term research goals. I maintained some of the software involved in research funding decision making.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-use_technology

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