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Re:Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone by oceanplexian on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @02:54PM (#38931108)
> That seems unlikely given that both Apple and Google have been employing the world's top ML scientists for years, have unlimited budgets, have better access to customers than any startup.

Both of those companies had it handed to them, like, literally got completely smoked by OpenAI, a company with a thousand employees +/- in San Francisco. The giants are incredibly vulnerable, just like the giants that Google and Apple disrupted such as IBM, Yahoo, AOL, etc.

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Re:Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone by giovannibonetti on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @03:03PM (#38931239)
It's a lot harder for startups to win over large companies in hardware, even with a superior product, since shipping hardware is tremendously capital-intensive. An example that comes to mind is Pebble, which had an excellent smartwatch that worked way better than the one from Fitbit, but nevertheless ran out of money and got sold to the latter.
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