[edg5000]

In China it's become well known that promising new companies will get an offer from either Alibaba or Tencent. In the US, it's probably simmilar. Everything that's out in the open can get acquired or simply copied. Maybe that is what Thinking Machines is hoping as well?

[vessenes]

Publish a Demo -> acquihire for anthropic/oAI/GOOG/META stock and cash is an understandable economic model. In this case, I feel like they built more than would be needed though — and I hope they deploy something useful, I’d love to play with it.

[edg5000]

Purely out of curiousity, I see you are using an em dash. Did you use voice transcription or something? It looks hand-typed though. I'm confused.

[vessenes]

I just typed two single hyphens from my iOS device. One: - two: —

Edit: when I edit this comment they have been merged in the form so I speculate this is an iOS keyboard feature.

[niam]

On the presumption that this isn't a joke: em dashes appear in LLM outputs because LLMs were trained on human text which included them organically. It's not as unordinary as memes suggest.

[ricardobeat]

Mira Murati, the founder of Thinking Machines, was CTO at OpenAI during the birth of ChatGPT. Very unlikely their goal is to just cash out.