&gt; was broken for a sum of money any angel investor in SFBA could have coughed up.<p>perhaps nitpicking, and a bit tangential to this debate, but I can&#x27;t imagine the $1m <i>on its own</i> would be enough to break it.<p>I imagine they have some fairly beefy research budget with an existing infrastructure with a substantial computing power and prior research experience to begin with. So quite a tall giant to stand on. If I had to guess, the $1m was only there to cover time spent on this very specific task at hand, and for allocating researchers&#x27; time away from other tasks...