Earlier quoted context omitted.
A a supercomputer with 65536 processors and a 16 dimensional hypercube interconnect, in a black monolithic enclosure with red blinkenlights.
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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
#52Could 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…
> Could somebody explain why there is so much negativity towards Thinking Machines
> significant OpenAI talent on board, including Murati herself.
because ppl on this website don't consider her a 'talent'.
Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
#53I think it takes a lot of temerity and hubris to look at a 2B raise and assume it's all hype. A16Z has certainly had some misses, but one assumes there actually is some product they're showing behind closed doors that makes this round much more reasonable than it appears from the outside.
If something makes no sense, seems totally crazy, and is being done by a crowd of extremely smart people, you can only assume one of two things: they are actually crazy and frittering away 2B on hype or, just maybe, there's something we're not aware of. If there are only two camps: optimistic and naive or pessimistic and dismissive, I'll choose naive every day of the week.
Anyways, congrats to Thinking Machines and here's hoping they do have something awesome up their sleeve!
Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
They were, but they didn't blink.
Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
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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
The Cray machines looked more like an airport seating area. Or with later models, obstacles in a laser tag arena. While the Thinking Machines with the moving LEDs looked alive, almost like it was designed to be a character in a movie, which they became.
Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
#56Does anybody know what they are building yet?
"it wants to build artificial intelligence systems that are safer, more reliable and aimed at a broader number of applications than rivals". If only I had had that idea, maybe I could have raised $2B.
I am working on a pitch deck for a startup that is going to build language models that aren't just safe and reliable but they are actually CONSCIOUS.
consciousmachines.ai
Such an obvious next step. Conscious, ethical, inclusive machines.
Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
#57I think it takes a lot of temerity and hubris to look at a 2B raise and assume it's all hype. A16Z has certainly had some misses, but one assumes there actually is some product they're showing behind closed doors that makes this round much more reasonable than it appears from the outside. If something makes no sense, seems totally crazy, and is being done by a crowd of extremely smart people, you can only assume one…
Oh it’s going to get exciting indeed!
Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
#58VCs are betting they'll get out with at least some gains before this bubble bursts. They have literally nothing new, not even in theory. They'll build a smaller-but-not-that-small-still-better-than-you-expect model which will be kind of open for others, which means they'll cut some deal and pretend they did something and that they received something in return.
Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
#59Could 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…
I have a pretty dim view of VCS, or at least a16z, after seeing some of the awful blockchain tech startups they were throwing money at during the last bubble
Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
#60Does 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.
Yeah, but no Richard Feynman this time around. And I was just wearing this shirt today! https://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/cm-tshirt.html