FWIW, at least 20 Y Combinator startups have published ML research recently at ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, and so on.
I think a lot of people assume that only the big AI labs can do cutting edge research, but there's a strong argument you can do it as part of little tech as well.
I think a lot of people assume that only the big AI labs can do cutting edge research, but there's a strong argument you can do it as part of little tech as well.