[jt2190]

  > This is hugely under-paid for a worthy winner. AI 
  > startups are sold way more these days; Amazon would 
  > benefit tremendously from a novel technique 
  > in that domain.

In that case found a company and exit by selling to AMZN for $FAIR_MARKET_VALUE.

[muzster]

that's not a fair comparison - you would need to "found" many companies (comprising of top grade university boffins)..

This really is a cheap win... for Amazon.