The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab(nytimes.com)
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The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/thinking-machines-ai-startup-openai.html
https://archive.ph/zdIIO
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Good for them for duping gullible investors out of money, but this is not a real business.
> The financing, announced in July, valued Thinking Machines at $12 billion, though it had not released a product and Ms. Murati was tight-lipped about what the start-up would produce.
> The financing, announced in July, valued Thinking Machines at $12 billion, though it had not released a product and Ms. Murati was tight-lipped about what the start-up would produce.
This doesn't seem fantastically different from the various soap operas that have been going on for ages.
It really is kind of sad, seeing what's happened to the industry I loved, but I guess that there's no helping it.
When you have money and ego, mixed with folks that never really finished growing up, you get this kind of stuff.
It really is kind of sad, seeing what's happened to the industry I loved, but I guess that there's no helping it.
When you have money and ego, mixed with folks that never really finished growing up, you get this kind of stuff.
> Thinking Machines released a product that helps developers adjust A.I. models to better perform specific tasks. Offered to businesses and software developers over the internet, the product was similar to technologies from Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
I cannot take this article seriously.
I cannot take this article seriously.
At least it’s not among the thousand AI note transcribing startups that have sprung up in the last two years.
I don’t understand if it’s something to do with the recommendation algorithm, but my LinkedIn is constantly full of those and my career has nothing to do with this at all.
I don’t understand if it’s something to do with the recommendation algorithm, but my LinkedIn is constantly full of those and my career has nothing to do with this at all.
"Create a product around a problem you know well" they said, and I'm thinking, as I'm typing/writing into my notes/journal; "what could I build that would have hype and is close to something I know?"
Probably every note taker has had the thought "What if I did it better?" at one point or another.
Probably every note taker has had the thought "What if I did it better?" at one point or another.
Maybe having an endless runway isn’t such a good thing; when you don’t have real constraints at play, you can afford to waste more time on ego and drama.