I guess investors are hoping for another Anthropic, or resurrection of Richard Feynman to help with development.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation for the reference
Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
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#92VCs 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.
> They have literally nothing new, not even in theory They haven’t built anything yet. It’s a bit premature to call out the non-existing product as insufficiently novel.
>It’s a bit premature to call out the non-existing product as insufficiently novel.
I think the point is that the pie-in-the-sky promises are insufficiently novel.
Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
#93Could 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…
True. People here can be like this. I have not forgotten even the greatest juice maker of all times, Juicero was similarly disparaged with all this negativity.
Ah yes, they were simply ahead of their time.
Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
#94Andreessen Horowitz is not gambling with their own money: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/andreessen-horowitz... Moreover, if some banks will fail in the aftermath, they'll be bailed out at the expense of you know whom.
Gives a whole new meaning to the "2 on 12 seed round" !
Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
#95Could 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 don't know much about them, but how they decided to call themselves strikes me as ... unwise: https://bookanalysis.com/dune/thinking-machines/
(They could have just as well picked Skynet.)
Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
#96Could 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 don't know much about them, but how they decided to call themselves strikes me as ... unwise: https://bookanalysis.com/dune/thinking-machines/ (They could have just as well picked Skynet.)
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Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
#97Could 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 don't know much about them, but how they decided to call themselves strikes me as ... unwise: https://bookanalysis.com/dune/thinking-machines/ (They could have just as well picked Skynet.)
Pretty sure it's a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation, the famous supercomputer company from the 80s-90s where Richard Feynman briefly worked.
Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
#98You can buy six B-2 bombers for that money. And use them against competitor AI startups. You think this sounds stupid? This is where all this AI arms race is going.
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#100a16z is the new softbank when it comes to signaling short or run