[sprafa]

Your articles are mildly helpful. However it's also possible that ML has new insights into this technology or that they have developed new tech whose patent is still under consideration? What if you're right and these particular patents are just FUD designed to mislead competitors and they're going with something else?

All of the possibilities could be true. I find it hard to dismiss the personal anecdotes of people going into the ML offices and being blown away though. I am not betting on anything, yet, just that someone somewhere will solve this problem, as it seems insanely profitable to do so. Whether it's ML or someone else I don't know.

[sbarre]

I would think Occam's razor would prevail here..

Sure, ML might have discovered/invented some new tech or method that disproves all the previous established knowledge, and they are sitting on some revolutionary new product..

But is that more likely than the idea that they thought they could pull off this technological "leap" in theory, and in practice eventually realized they could not?

[drcode]

Well, some would argue Occam's razor would state "Lots of people who've seen the demo of the technology where impressed, maybe this means they created impressive technology"