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Re:The End of AI Frontiers by mschuster91 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:07PM (#50408072)
It's Meta, lol. They wasted 80 billion $ on Zuck's fever dream called Metaverse.
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Re:The End of AI Frontiers by WalterBright on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:14PM (#50408560)
Musk initially started his rocket company by going to Russia and trying to buy Russian rockets. The Russians spat on his shoe.

The rest is history.

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Re:The End of AI Frontiers by mschuster91 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:01PM (#50408875)
That at least was a reasonable idea. The Russians had a lot of old Soviet era ICBMs they had no need for anymore (plus, IIRC an agreement with the US to disassemble them), so using their engines as a cheap powerplant until SpaceX nailed reusability made sense.

That failed and SpaceX was then forced to develop its own brand new engines.

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Re:The End of AI Frontiers by Andrew_nenakhov on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:19PM (#50408598)
It's amusing that their grand dream was basically a clone of Roblox, just with better VR tech and far more advanced graphics. But thing is, kids playing Roblox absolutely do not care about graphics.
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Re:The End of AI Frontiers by outrun86 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:28PM (#50409710)
Well, don’t care about graphics yet. Unclear what will happen once those gamers hit 20, 30 years old.
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