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Re:Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indi... by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @05:01PM (#44174685)
That was the original idea, and that's what Amazon claimed, but IIRC they never got over 70% automated.

Phrased differently, 30% of all transactions were still entered by a human overseas watching cameras at the time they decided to pull the plug, years after the initial launch.

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Re:Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indi... by kylecazar on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @05:17PM (#44174840)
Interesting that they can automate some of the transactions and not others... Wonder what was special about those other 30%.

There was a 2 year period in which I bought lunch at an Amazon Go daily. I was naive to the magic so I thought it was the greatest innovation ever.

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