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Nonprofits Underpin the Tech Industry
Big Tech runs on nonprofit infrastructure. Google started as NSF research. Facebook scaled on LAMP and web standards. Modern AI is the same story, with 95% of LLaMA data coming from nonprofit or open sources like Common Crawl and Wikipedia. The pattern repeats with OpenAI, Databricks, and Figma, all built on academic work and shared systems. Nonprofits fund the unprofitable layer, standards, data, and research that everything else compounds on.
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