Is there really a shortage of companies that are trying to do foundational AI research, and also build the results of that research into end-user products? Off the top of my head, the list of such companies would include... you know, literally every large tech company. If the idea here is that they can do it at a much smaller scale, and more cheaply, that's great. But it's not clear to me from this article what the radical new approach is that will enable that.
I wonder if putting out effectively a press release before actually doing the work is the right approach. If they launch a product or two and they flop, people will say this approach was doomed from the start. It would be better to create a compelling product in stealth, successfully launch it, then reveal how it was done. That would create more buy-in to the idea that such small R&D labs can work.
I wonder if putting out effectively a press release before actually doing the work is the right approach. If they launch a product or two and they flop, people will say this approach was doomed from the start. It would be better to create a compelling product in stealth, successfully launch it, then reveal how it was done. That would create more buy-in to the idea that such small R&D labs can work.