Google DeepMind's six-month internal embargo shelves commercially valuable research papers
Anjney Midha · Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP · Jun 18, 2026 · at 15:16
Anjney Midha is the CEO of AMP. He argues that centralized governance at major AI labs prevents breakthrough research from being published or commercialized openly.
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“I mean, what's worse is the paper is actually not even being Published anymore because there's a six month embargo inside of DeepMind, right? Like we've heard about this where a paper comes out and then I think there's a six month embargo window where if anybody on the business team says this could be interesting, it's embargoed for life.”
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