What are they going to spend those $2B on?
Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
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#112What are they going to spend those $2B on?
Buying Windsurf, presumably.
Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
#113How about defense systems?
Maybe they can make a T-800 to ensure when AI/skynet goes rogue humanity has a chance.
It’s the ultimate AI safety.
“I’ll be back”
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
> HN comments are more hostile than pragmatic In the case of a bubble, hostility is pragmatism. Of course, nobody knows that it's a bubble, but nobody knows it's not a bubble either.
I've lived through 3 and read up on at least 10 more. Many people know it's a bubble. You see lots of HN comments that it's a bubble. We certainly did in 2007. In a bubble, the predominant notion is not "I wonder if it's a bubble", but rather "It's a bubble, I hope I can make my money before it pops". A perfect example of this was the Tulip craze in the Netherlands. Nobody actually believed tulip bulbs were worth tha…
This. Ans that's why we even manage to reproduce bubbles in a very simple simulated environnement among finance students who know exactly how overvaluated their assets are (I can't find the paper right now though…)
Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
#115Could 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…
They were founded 6 months ago, have no product, yet are purported to be worth $12B? I mean ... Come on.
Mistral having a $113M seed round from a slide deck
Murati: “hold my beer”.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
huh, what happened? I haven't been following Mistral but I recall it was everyone's up and coming darling, no?
It's about to be bought by Apple, so not for long.
There's quite a gap between “Apple considers buying Mistral” and “they are about to be bought by Apple”.
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#117I 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…
Could be, or it could be a simple flawed net present value calculation, similar to Effective Altruism. SBF said if he had a die and it had a 99% chance of killing everyone and a 1% chance of making the world 1 million times happier he would roll the die. Repeatedly. And Silicon Valley loved him. I think AI is a similar calculation. Humans are tearing themselves apart and the only thing worth betting on is AI that can…
Well in that end game of a post scarcity is there a need for humans?
If you were in the top 1% and you don’t need labor anymore because it can be automated.
Even in post scarcity some people will want as much as possible for themselves, if history is any baseline.
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#118Does 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.
They need to build a Terminator T-800 as the ultimate AI safety and a Time Machine.
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#119Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
#120Could 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…
This place used to be a place for hackers and founders. Now it is mostly a place for middle aged software engineers who hate someone else to success, change and hope for the future of Linux desktop. Thinking Machines presents both change and success .