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

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

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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.

Look at the name of the company: Yi. Seems congruent then to use 1, pronunced yi in Chinese, as a domain name.

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

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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.

Are you telling me that there isn't already a 69.ai working on deepfake porns? I'd be surprised.

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

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> We predict that AI 2.0 will create a platform opportunity ten times larger than the mobile internet, rewriting all software and user interfaces. I was a bit interested until I read this. If this claim is to be believed, then the company appears to be entirely out of touch with reality, and it makes claims like outperforming llama-70b seem even more incredulous.

What do you find offence with? Hip speech and yawn-2.0-s aside, I find the claim entirely defendable, given, of course, a certain set of assumptions in this very new and uncertain space.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

In Chinese, 666 is a very good number. 6 sounds like the character 溜 which technically means something like smooth flowing but is used to compliment someone's well-practiced skills. "666" is often said when someone does something impressive and smoothly. Like if someone double-flips a pancake and it lands perfectly, that's the kind of situation you'd say "666" to compliment them.

On the other hand, don't use 444.ai

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

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How can an open source company have a valuation of $1B? How do open source businesses work at all? I sometimes read about companies like these, with huge valuations and then the next day I read about some open source developer asking for donations because their project, which powers half of the internet [1], is not making him enough to pay for food. What makes the difference? Over the years, I wrote some tools for my…

You could spend sometime looking into the business models of Elasticsearch/Docker. Albeit not successful in some eyes as they are exactly profit printing, but they have indeed raised enough to be unicorn status.

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

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Kai Fu Lee has so many terrible takes. Some things he says are borderline delusional.

His book AI Superpowers is frontloaded with a lot of "Ra Ra mighty China inevitably will win the AI competition" stuff. I just felt sad for him if AI nationalism is his genuine world view, and not just some party line he has to parrot to appease the commissars.

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

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> We predict that AI 2.0 will create a platform opportunity ten times larger than the mobile internet, rewriting all software and user interfaces. I was a bit interested until I read this. If this claim is to be believed, then the company appears to be entirely out of touch with reality, and it makes claims like outperforming llama-70b seem even more incredulous.

What do you find offence with? Hip speech and yawn-2.0-s aside, I find the claim entirely defendable, given, of course, a certain set of assumptions in this very new and uncertain space.

How is it defendable? How do you defend 10x? What about 11x? Why not 3.5x? This is complete bullshit.

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

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How can an open source company have a valuation of $1B? How do open source businesses work at all? I sometimes read about companies like these, with huge valuations and then the next day I read about some open source developer asking for donations because their project, which powers half of the internet [1], is not making him enough to pay for food. What makes the difference? Over the years, I wrote some tools for my…

like any other startup. time, energy and passion. define problem/pain. talk loads w potential customers. ask them if they would pay for it. excel in customer success. find ways to scale and be found :)

Or... or... s/he could convince a VC that the startup would multiply the potential opportunity in the space the tools cover by 10x and get a really fat check for generating the right hype with the right crowd.

/s

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