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Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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> "We're excited that in the next couple months we will be able to share our first product, which will include a significant open source component and be useful for researchers and startups developing custom model," CEO Murati said in a post, opens new tab on the X social media platform.

We need to jack up interest rates again.

Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Could somebody explain why there is so much negativity towards Thinking Machines in this thread? I realize that they haven't publicly announced a product yet but presumably the VCs have some idea of what Thinking Machines is building, and they have some pretty significant OpenAI talent on board, including Murati herself. Some amount of skepticism is warranted, of course, but a lot of these comments read as closer to hostility.

Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Does anybody know what they are building yet?

A a supercomputer with 65536 processors and a 16 dimensional hypercube interconnect, in a black monolithic enclosure with red blinkenlights.

Gavin Belson Signature Edition Box 1

Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is literally in the article: > "We're excited that in the next couple months we will be able to share our first product, which will include a significant open source component and be useful for researchers and startups developing custom model," CEO Murati said in a post on the X social media platform.

Is there a word (like aphorism or metaphor) for someone trying to prove a point and doing the opposite? There just has to be.

"You've just proved my point" is enough.

Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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This is what I expect. Theyre Not hiring even engineers. By the time they have a strategy, plan, hire, and act on that plan they will be behind the curve, and force to use the $ to acquire someone who did.

This is wrong. they have strong engineering and a product coming this year

While you are seeing in to the future, can you tell me the Powerball numbers?

Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Could somebody explain why there is so much negativity towards Thinking Machines in this thread? I realize that they haven't publicly announced a product yet but presumably the VCs have some idea of what Thinking Machines is building, and they have some pretty significant OpenAI talent on board, including Murati herself. Some amount of skepticism is warranted, of course, but a lot of these comments read as closer to…

Because it looks like VC are spendings ridicoulous amounts of money for hype while many startups with actual products and a product market fit struggle to attract investors because their product is not related to transformers.

Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Could somebody explain why there is so much negativity towards Thinking Machines in this thread? I realize that they haven't publicly announced a product yet but presumably the VCs have some idea of what Thinking Machines is building, and they have some pretty significant OpenAI talent on board, including Murati herself. Some amount of skepticism is warranted, of course, but a lot of these comments read as closer to…

> but presumably the VCs have some idea of what Thinking Machines is building

you imply that VCs are rational because bet their own money, which in current complicated world probably is not true. VC funds get money from complicated funnel likely including my/your retirement account and country public debt, VC managers likely receive bonuses for closed deals and not long term gains which may materialize in 10 years. So, investing 2B into non-existing product with unclear market fit/team/tech moat smells very strongly.

Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Could somebody explain why there is so much negativity towards Thinking Machines in this thread? I realize that they haven't publicly announced a product yet but presumably the VCs have some idea of what Thinking Machines is building, and they have some pretty significant OpenAI talent on board, including Murati herself. Some amount of skepticism is warranted, of course, but a lot of these comments read as closer to…

> but presumably the VCs have some idea of what Thinking Machines is building you imply that VCs are rational because bet their own money, which in current complicated world probably is not true. VC funds get money from complicated funnel likely including my/your retirement account and country public debt, VC managers likely receive bonuses for closed deals and not long term gains which may materialize in 10 years. S…

> you imply that VCs are rational because bet their own money, which in current complicated world probably is not true.

Correct. Most VCs are using someone else's money. See Softbank. And making extremely poor judgements on how to use that money.

Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is literally in the article: > "We're excited that in the next couple months we will be able to share our first product, which will include a significant open source component and be useful for researchers and startups developing custom model," CEO Murati said in a post on the X social media platform.

What are they building?

they have concepts of a product
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