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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by MajimasEyepatch on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @04:21PM (#44055903)
I don't necessarily think Ive is going to succeed, but if you're going to make a lot of bets, taking one bet on someone who succeeded before seems pretty reasonable. He wouldn't be the first person to rise to great heights, fall, and rise again, even in the Apple world.
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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by some_random on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @04:46PM (#44056160)
I absolutely agree right up until we start talking about price. Obviously this deal was all in stock from someone who has a history creative corporate control structures, but nevertheless the on paper cost of was $6.4 billion. That's a hell of a bet.
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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by bbarnett on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @06:23PM (#44056882)
This whole thread seems weird to me. There's no way on Earth this is to acquire talent, let alone one person alone.

For this price, I'd figure something already exists.

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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by nmstoker on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @09:22PM (#44057859)
Sam did say he took one of the prototypes home and he thought it was "the coolest piece of technology the world will have ever seen"
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