The Rise of Large Companies in AI Conferences

The ratio of papers with at least one company co-op for a jump from something like, I don't know, 0.2 to more like 0.4 over the past decade. And we find that large companies are mostly collaborating with elite universities. Unfortunately, what you find is that universities who are ranked between 200, 101 to 500, who actually have lost ground in AI research. The results are also concerning for non-AI. Universities who are ranked from 200,101 to 500, they're losing ground. That means that actually AI research is being less democratized and AI research is now less diverse than before.