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Jeff Bezos creates A.I. startup where he will be co-chief executive

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Re: Jeff Bezos creates A.I. startup where he will be co-chief executive

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Post by paxys »

sionisrecur wrote: post #5
aschobel wrote: post #2

> The new company has until now kept a low profile, and when it was started is not even clear. Any more details? Where is it located? Who is working there, For $6.2 billion raised I’m surprised their aren’t more details

Is that a thing in the US? You start a company and there's no need to register it with the government? Or it gets registered but there's no public records of it?

There are thousands of companies registered every day across the US. This one is probably a subdivision of a subdivision of some holding company owned by Bezos. Pretty much impossible to track using just public data.

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Post by reactordev »

nicole_express wrote: post #6
sionisrecur wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that a thing in the US? You start a company and there's no need to register it with the government? Or it gets registered but there's no public records of it?

You can basically form a corporate entity with a nominal Delaware office, but it doesn't need to give any details about where the actual work takes place, yeah.

You can even LegalZoom one for $200.

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Post by andsoitis »

From the TechCrunch article;

> its work will resemble that of Periodic Labs, which is building technology to speed up scientific research by simulating the physical world to train AI models.

Will be interesting to see how far simulation gets you vs actual embodiment via robots, etc.

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Post by freehorse »

aschobel wrote: post #2

> The new company has until now kept a low profile, and when it was started is not even clear. Any more details? Where is it located? Who is working there, For $6.2 billion raised I’m surprised their aren’t more details

$6.2 billion which are prob to be invested in amazon to be invested in the startup to be invested in amazon, so I would not assume such an amount actually implies the size where this would be surprising.

Re: Jeff Bezos creates A.I. startup where he will be co-chief executive

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Post by andsoitis »

kilroy123 wrote: post #16

Honestly, why? Why not just focus on Blue Origin? I don't get this new Musk-like tendency to run multiple ventures instead of focusing on one very tough mission.

It takes extraordinary skill to successfully juggle multiple ventures. So it is natural for some to want to take on the challenge. I think it is pretty impressive.
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