- Good for them for duping gullible investors out of money, but this is not a real business.
> The financing, announced in July, valued Thinking Machines at $12 billion, though it had not released a product and Ms. Murati was tight-lipped about what the start-up would produce.
- > Thinking Machines released a product that helps developers adjust A.I. models to better perform specific tasks. Offered to businesses and software developers over the internet, the product was similar to technologies from Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
I cannot take this article seriously.
by ChrisMarshallNY
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- This doesn't seem fantastically different from the various soap operas that have been going on for ages.
It really is kind of sad, seeing what's happened to the industry I loved, but I guess that there's no helping it.
When you have money and ego, mixed with folks that never really finished growing up, you get this kind of stuff.
- At least it’s not among the thousand AI note transcribing startups that have sprung up in the last two years.
I don’t understand if it’s something to do with the recommendation algorithm, but my LinkedIn is constantly full of those and my career has nothing to do with this at all.
by hdhdhsjsbdh
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- Maybe having an endless runway isn’t such a good thing; when you don’t have real constraints at play, you can afford to waste more time on ego and drama.
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