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Re:Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era by troupo on Thursday December 12, 2024 @02:25AM (#42397010)
And that is a problem for a company with 20k employees?

No, Reader was killed because it:

- was free

- didn't contribute to revenue growth from ads

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Re:Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era by creesch on Thursday December 12, 2024 @03:08AM (#42397253)
> And that is a problem for a company with 20k employees?

It is for a company where the promotion culture rewards new initiatives and products and doesn't reward people maintaining products. Which was most certainly the company culture around the time reader was killed.

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