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It's a bit chicken-and-egg. These collaborators are also in cities where FB already has offices that they can lead teams out of. Of course, these offices were started because of the prestigious schools that were already there.

Half the schools on the list are publics, and none of them are Ivies.

How does being a public school mean a college cannot be elite? Pretty sure his point is these schools are elite within this field, and people from lesser known schools (not just public) are rarely given these chances.

The collab with McGill and U Montreal I believe.

U Montreal has the largest AI program going.