Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
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Re: Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
#2Damn, for just a moment I thought the Sierra Online company was coming back. I want a new official Quest for Glory game.
Re: Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
#3Damn, for just a moment I thought the Sierra Online company was coming back. I want a new official Quest for Glory game.
I was about to post a snarky comment along the lines of "Sierra? The publishers of Homeworld and Homeworld 2?"
Re: Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
#4So we're supposed to believe that removing humans from customer support will lead to better outcomes?
> Ensure you only pay for the value Sierra delivers with outcome-based pricing.
Yeah... that won't last.
Re: Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
#5Damn, for just a moment I thought the Sierra Online company was coming back. I want a new official Quest for Glory game.
Every single word domain seems to have become some new AI company.
Re: Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
#6Damn, for just a moment I thought the Sierra Online company was coming back. I want a new official Quest for Glory game.
Likewise, I was hoping for more Space Quest :(
Re: Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
#7So we're supposed to believe that removing humans from customer support will lead to better outcomes? > Ensure you only pay for the value Sierra delivers with outcome-based pricing. Yeah... that won't last.
AI customer support is trash and everyone hates it , but it makes the Wall St numbers go up, so it's a good thing.
Re: Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
#8Damn, for just a moment I thought the Sierra Online company was coming back. I want a new official Quest for Glory game.
Every single word domain seems to have become some new AI company.
I still get briefly confused when I see a post on here about X, only to realize they're talking about Twitter, and not the display server.
There are 26 letters and millions of words; people should choose other ones.
Re: Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
#9Voice agents in customer support is an extremely crowded market. Seems like Sierra is taking a considerable lead.
I don't know much about their product offerings, but I was doing some speech-to-text work and came across https://research.sierra.ai/mubench/ for comparing current models. It felt fairly thoughtful, particularly in regards to coming up with better benchmarking metrics than word error rate.
Re: Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
#10Damn, for just a moment I thought the Sierra Online company was coming back. I want a new official Quest for Glory game.
Assume Sierra owners are too young to know what Sierra games means. I was absolutely obsessed with their logo (1) at school time.
1. https://preview.redd.it/remember-sierra-games-1979-2008-they...
