I use to believe that the business model of Microsoft was just selling an overpriced Operating System and Microsoft Office to governments and businesses. I used to believe that the business model of Google was gathering data and selling accurate ads.
I was recently surprised to discover they have research subsidiaries called Microsoft Research and Google Deepmind
Microsoft Research employs more than 1,000 computer scientists, physicists, engineers, and mathematicians, including Turing Award winners, Fields Medal winners, MacArthur Fellows, and Dijkstra Prize winners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind
The founder of Deep Mind received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis
Do they do actual research here or is this junk science?
Corporations don’t do any research ever.
Employees of corporations do research and development at the behest of millionaires and billionaires who exploit them.
The corporation is simply the legal system that exists to allow this exploitation.
It should also be said that a corporation that conducts its own research into the I’ll effects of its products and services should never be trusted unless that specific data is validated by a trustworthy and independent 3rd party. Governments don’t count.