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Re:OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation by hu3 on Friday August 01, 2025 @12:34PM (#44759142)
SpaceX is unique.

OpenAI is one of many.

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Re:OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation by cactusplant7374 on Friday August 01, 2025 @03:52PM (#44761623)
The many being companies that no one has heard of and only have a following here.
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Re:OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation by ac29 on Friday August 01, 2025 @04:23PM (#44762054)
SpaceX has a price advantage over their competitors, not a capability advantage.

Putting things in orbit has been possible for ~70 years

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Re:OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation by vasco on Friday August 01, 2025 @06:08PM (#44763005)
Frequency of launches is a capability.
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Re:OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation by throwaway6612 on Saturday August 02, 2025 @09:20AM (#44767388)
Cessnas have a price advantage over Boeings, not a capability advantage.

Putting things in air has been possible for ~120 years.

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Re:OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation by CamperBob2 on Friday August 01, 2025 @07:07PM (#44763424)
Let's see how the inevitable patent wars shake out.
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Re:OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation by MuffinFlavored on Saturday August 02, 2025 @11:14AM (#44768295)
> OpenAI is one of many.

Maybe to you as a tech person who is online a lot/reads message boards/etc.

I don't think my mother in law/the average person knows Claude, Gemini, etc. but I surely overhear young kids/average people on trains talking about "ChatGPT" almost exclusively

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