I don’t think the overall EA and tech-venture funding levels are coming back anytime soon—the low-interest-rate environment is over for at least a decade. Whether it comes back after that is unknown.
There is today, and will likely continue to be, funding available for some amount of promising endeavors. As the practical uses of LLMs and AI ramp up, there will be a LOT MORE money in “prosaic AI”. But likely never again the large amounts for speculative/very-long-term reasons it was a few years ago.
I don’t think the overall EA and tech-venture funding levels are coming back anytime soon—the low-interest-rate environment is over for at least a decade. Whether it comes back after that is unknown.
There is today, and will likely continue to be, funding available for some amount of promising endeavors. As the practical uses of LLMs and AI ramp up, there will be a LOT MORE money in “prosaic AI”. But likely never again the large amounts for speculative/very-long-term reasons it was a few years ago.