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Post by dgellow » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:23 PM UTC

„Bing AI: acquired“ I don’t trust that dataset…

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#12

Post by gfat » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:24 PM UTC

Diagram was acquired by Figma

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Post by gwbas1c » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:25 PM UTC

ulfw wrote: post #8

Same as crypto/blockchain five years ago. Exactly the same.

Reminds me of fuckedcompany.com during the internet / web bubble in 2000 and the early 2000s.

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Post by renegade-otter » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:25 PM UTC

snoren wrote: post #2

Oh man, lots of dead ideas. Atm attention is more important than ever, cos delivering on ideas got easier. Getting the attention your product needs got harder

Just like how more RAM and compute in the cloud made us worse engineers (no need to turn your brain on to tune performance).

When the brain is off for one thing, it's off for the rest as well. There is a lot of talk about "we don't have to think about code so we can think of ideas", but that's not how it works. We just don't think.

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Post by renegade-otter » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:27 PM UTC

nkmnz wrote: post #5

fred_is_fred wrote: post #4

1/3 of these were acquired so far. I think what would be interesting is a label that showed whether anyone made money before it shutdown.

Some of the acquired didn't even shut down. https://wandb.ai/site seems to be up and running.

This site may join its own list.

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Post by ramon156 » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:27 PM UTC

> Bit.ai

> https://bit.ai/updates

seems up? then again, i do not know anything about the tool. maybe the marketing site is up, but the tool isn't?

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Post by abraxas » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:28 PM UTC

Streamlit seems very much alive. I used it on and off in the past. Went to their website and it looks very much alive.

Ditto for Weights and Biases.

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Post by tencentshill » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC

renegade-otter wrote: post #14

snoren wrote: post #2

Oh man, lots of dead ideas. Atm attention is more important than ever, cos delivering on ideas got easier. Getting the attention your product needs got harder

Just like how more RAM and compute in the cloud made us worse engineers (no need to turn your brain on to tune performance). When the brain is off for one thing, it's off for the rest as well. There is a lot of talk about "we don't have to think about code so we can think of ideas", but that's not how it works. We just don't think.

They should put microphones in the cloud servers so you can hear the fans spin up when you run a program. It's a bit more impactful than a silent CPU usage graph.

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Post by el_io » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC

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Post by epistasis » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:35 PM UTC

abraxas wrote: post #17

Streamlit seems very much alive. I used it on and off in the past. Went to their website and it looks very much alive. Ditto for Weights and Biases.

They are in the "Year unknown (12)" category but that's a weird thing to include.

Plus they aren't even AI products, but either have vigorous pre-AI use (W&B) or are completely non-AI but just used by lots of prototypes (streamlit)