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Re:Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines raises $2B in ... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @09:21PM (#44577760)
> They have literally nothing new, not even in theory

They haven’t built anything yet. It’s a bit premature to call out the non-existing product as insufficiently novel.

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Re:Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines raises $2B in ... by StanislavPetrov on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @12:37AM (#44578712)
>It’s a bit premature to call out the non-existing product as insufficiently novel.

I think the point is that the pie-in-the-sky promises are insufficiently novel.

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Re:Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines raises $2B in ... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @03:40AM (#44579691)
> point is that the pie-in-the-sky promises are insufficiently novel

You have no data to judge novelty on. If you think AI rocket science, they’re flubs. If you don’t, they have a shot. Either way, I can’t see novelty being unsatisfied.

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