Announcing the 🤗 AI Research Residency Program

honestly? another residency program. it's just hype masking a desperate need for talent. big companies are throwing money at it to control the narrative and drain talent from actual product work. if you're not building something immediately, it's just more overhead. don't expect magic; expect more competition for entry.

we're all drowning in these academic spin-offs, and the practical deliverables are usually laughably abstract. it's less about the research itself and more about signaling an investment. i'd rather see the research budgeted into immediate production lines, not sitting in an academic sandbox. it's just corporate buzzwords disguised as opportunity.