[roman_soldier]

Congrats but it's kinda like a company, releasing in 2030, an LLM equivalent to the first version of chatGPT. SpaceX did this 10 years ago.

[ceejayoz]

Or like Apple releasing an MP3 player?

[brucehoult]

No wireless? Less space than a Nomad? Lame.

That aged well. Six years later it turned into the iPhone.

[roman_soldier]

I think this is more like the Fire phone vs the iPhone.

[ceejayoz]

Maybe! The point, though, is that first to market isn’t automatically the same as the final winner.

[roman_soldier]

This isn't just first to market it's been 10 years and SpaceX is still innovating. I applaud Bezos for at least offering some sort of competition though it will keep SpaceX from becoming complacent.

[ceejayoz]

Gates was about a decade ahead of the game on tablets, too. iPad came and cleaned up the market.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/feb/12/ipad-bill...

It happens. I don't think we'll know the winner (if there even winds up being a single one) of this race for a decade or more, and I think Bezos's fortune is a lot safer.

[javascriptfan69]

And NASA put a man on the moon in the 60s.

What is your point?

[roman_soldier]

NASA never created rapidly reusable rockets, which is what we are talking about here.