Except that Stable Diffusion only came about because of Stability.ai and Emad's sponsorship, so I don't know that I'd use that as an example of a success by academia. It's true that the people who made it are academics, but that's to say they weren't hedge fund managers with a couple hundred thousand dollars to burn on a GPU cluster. The government and by extension its people needs to want to throw a lot more money at open ended research if we want science to be able to progress at the hands of academics and not corporations.