Kai Fu Lee's New AI Company: Yi-Open Source

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Post by mark_l_watson » Mon, Nov 06, 2023, 3:37 AM UTC

Kai Fu Lee's New AI Company: Yi-Open Source
01.ai

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Post by mark_l_watson » Mon, Nov 06, 2023, 3:39 AM UTC

I read the first paragraph of a paywalled article that said that the company has a $1B evaluation in less than a year.

I have always been a fan - I bought his PhD Thesis to read about 40 years ago. Kai Fu Lee has had an interesting career!

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Post by echelon » Mon, Nov 06, 2023, 6:04 AM UTC

What is up with all of these {number}.ai companies?

01.ai

11.ai

https://twelvelabs.io (couldn't get 12.ai, huh?)

There are about a half dozen more.

I'm laughing at the domain squatter that bought 900.ai, 99999.ai, and 1234567.ai

This has to be the worst possible thing to name your company.

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Post by growt » Mon, Nov 06, 2023, 6:11 AM UTC

echelon wrote: post #3

What is up with all of these {number}.ai companies? 01.ai 11.ai https://twelvelabs.io (couldn't get 12.ai, huh?) There are about a half dozen more. I'm laughing at the domain squatter that bought 900.ai, 99999.ai, and 1234567.ai This has to be the worst possible thing to name your company.

Before the Internet companies would name themselves „1a-locksmith“ to appear first in the yellow pages in book form. Maybe we have gone full cycle?

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Post by antupis » Mon, Nov 06, 2023, 6:11 AM UTC

echelon wrote: post #3

What is up with all of these {number}.ai companies? 01.ai 11.ai https://twelvelabs.io (couldn't get 12.ai, huh?) There are about a half dozen more. I'm laughing at the domain squatter that bought 900.ai, 99999.ai, and 1234567.ai This has to be the worst possible thing to name your company.

420.ai, 69.ai or 666.ai are much worse.

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Post by throwaway4good » Mon, Nov 06, 2023, 6:12 AM UTC

mark_l_watson wrote: post #2

I read the first paragraph of a paywalled article that said that the company has a $1B evaluation in less than a year. I have always been a fan - I bought his PhD Thesis to read about 40 years ago. Kai Fu Lee has had an interesting career!

The valuation is mentioned this TechCrunch article as well:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/05/valued-at-1b-kai-fu-lees-l...

Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model

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The startup’s ability to commence model training quickly is no doubt an outcome of its smooth fundraising, which is critical to securing top-tier talent and AI processors. While declining to disclose how much 01.AI has raised, Lee said it’s valued at $1 billion after receiving financing from Sinovation Ventures, Alibaba Cloud and other undisclosed investors.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 06, 2023, 6:16 AM UTC

echelon wrote: post #3

What is up with all of these {number}.ai companies? 01.ai 11.ai https://twelvelabs.io (couldn't get 12.ai, huh?) There are about a half dozen more. I'm laughing at the domain squatter that bought 900.ai, 99999.ai, and 1234567.ai This has to be the worst possible thing to name your company.

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Post by throwaway4good » Mon, Nov 06, 2023, 6:16 AM UTC

echelon wrote: post #3

What is up with all of these {number}.ai companies? 01.ai 11.ai https://twelvelabs.io (couldn't get 12.ai, huh?) There are about a half dozen more. I'm laughing at the domain squatter that bought 900.ai, 99999.ai, and 1234567.ai This has to be the worst possible thing to name your company.

Number domain names seem to be popular in countries that don’t use the latin alphabet - ie China or Japan.

01.ai is pretty cool name and domain … for sure beats grok or calling something open when it is actually closed.

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Post by staunton » Mon, Nov 06, 2023, 6:21 AM UTC

antupis wrote: post #5

echelon wrote: post #3

What is up with all of these {number}.ai companies? 01.ai 11.ai https://twelvelabs.io (couldn't get 12.ai, huh?) There are about a half dozen more. I'm laughing at the domain squatter that bought 900.ai, 99999.ai, and 1234567.ai This has to be the worst possible thing to name your company.

420.ai, 69.ai or 666.ai are much worse.

Shh, Elon might get some ideas...

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Post by astrange » Mon, Nov 06, 2023, 6:23 AM UTC

echelon wrote: post #3

What is up with all of these {number}.ai companies? 01.ai 11.ai https://twelvelabs.io (couldn't get 12.ai, huh?) There are about a half dozen more. I'm laughing at the domain squatter that bought 900.ai, 99999.ai, and 1234567.ai This has to be the worst possible thing to name your company.

Number domains are relatively common in China because you can easily make Chinese language puns with them.

(I don't know what this one means, but it probably is one.)