Completely unrelated, but whenever I see stats like "Deepmind, an org of about 1,000 employees" and then contrast that to the amount of interesting advancements they're making, I cant help but wonder where we'd be with 100,000+ people working on these type of issues.

Kind of how most medical advancements come out of the US, which makes up only <4.25% of world population.

I know orgs dont scale like that and there are hits to productivity with orgs getting less lean but still.