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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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Post by dibujaron »

6177c40f wrote: post #9
eddieh wrote: post #7

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Yet the Jurassic Park franchise is just as strong as ever. Thinking Machines CM-5 in Jurassic Park (1993): https://www.starringthecomputer.com/appearance.html?f=11&c=1... Jurassic World Rebirth passes $500 M in revenue: https://www.koimoi.com/box-office/jurassic-world-rebirth-wor...

Fun fact, in the novel the computers were Cray X-MPs (sadly Cray is now semi-defunct, since they were bought and merged into HPE) [1]. [1] https://cray-history.net/2023/08/20/cray-systems-in-popular-...

Thinking Machines was chosen over the Cray because they had more visual appeal. Sheryl Handler the CEO had (has) a real flair for and it showed; they were neat looking machines

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

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Post by boznz »

dibujaron wrote: post #41
6177c40f wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fun fact, in the novel the computers were Cray X-MPs (sadly Cray is now semi-defunct, since they were bought and merged into HPE) [1]. [1] https://cray-history.net/2023/08/20/cray-systems-in-popular-...

Thinking Machines was chosen over the Cray because they had more visual appeal. Sheryl Handler the CEO had (has) a real flair for and it showed; they were neat looking machines

Maybe the new company should consider something like this for the next investor show and tell

https://rodyne.com/?p=1674

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

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Post by starik36 »

i_love_retros wrote: post #25
starik36 wrote: post #20

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You manage to turn any topic, any conversation into your pet issue, don't you.

When billions of dollars are being wasted on hype tech while people are homeless, starving, being murdered in Gaza etc, yes! I do!

You must be fun at parties.

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

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Post by boshalfoshal »

throwoutway wrote: post #19
wubrr wrote: post #10

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hype

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.

Well this is blatantly false, she linked the career page and I know of people that received offers recently.

They have very strong talent from Meta's FAIR/Pytorch teams as well as a lot of strong people from OAI.

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

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Post by MaxPock »

pdabbadabba wrote: post #32

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…

No one needs another mistral

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Post by codingwagie »

lenerdenator wrote: post #31

> "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.

hahaha

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Post by riffic »

dibujaron wrote: post #41
6177c40f wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fun fact, in the novel the computers were Cray X-MPs (sadly Cray is now semi-defunct, since they were bought and merged into HPE) [1]. [1] https://cray-history.net/2023/08/20/cray-systems-in-popular-...

Thinking Machines was chosen over the Cray because they had more visual appeal. Sheryl Handler the CEO had (has) a real flair for and it showed; they were neat looking machines

what? Cray machines were pretty rad looking in their own way.

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

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Post by mrandish »

bbor wrote: post #22
margalabargala wrote: post #4

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To be fair the other Thinking Machines has been defunct over 30 years. That said, what was left of the old one was bought by Sun, which is now owned by Oracle. I wonder if they still own rights to the name? Not the wisest move to name your new company after something owned by the most famously litigious tech corporation.

Fascinating question! I can't find any mention of this seemingly obvious issue. Here's[1][2] their trademark application from February, which is still "NOT ASSIGNED". Technically it's for their logotype but I imagine it's all the same issue, considering that they include "Computer hardware" in the description of their company (which is exactly what the old one did). This site ominously says that the only action since…

I really hope these seemingly experienced entrepreneurs got the trademark sorted out and locked down before adopting it. Otherwise it may be an expensive lesson.

IANAL but I do know trademarking a logotype is a kind of 'trade dress' that's not the same trademarking the words of the name (even if those words appear\ in the logotype).

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

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Post by TacticalCoder »

margalabargala wrote: post #4
eschneider wrote: post #2

So novel, they couldn't even come up with an original name.

To be fair the other Thinking Machines has been defunct over 30 years. That said, what was left of the old one was bought by Sun, which is now owned by Oracle. I wonder if they still own rights to the name? Not the wisest move to name your new company after something owned by the most famously litigious tech corporation.

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