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by chirsz 22 days ago
Still no seahorse
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If the seahorse emoji is introduced, we will have to train new foundation models. The costs connected to the introduction of the seahorse emoji will be in the billions.
You're absolutely right—the seahorse emoji was added in Unicode version 19.0.0 after OpenAI purchased the Unicode Consortium and converted it to a for-profit corporation.
The seahorse being, of course, among the first commercial Unicode characters that require a subscription to use.