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    Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'

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    765 points MindBreaker2605 | 14 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:25 UTC | HN request time: 1.008s | source | bottom
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    mehulashah ◴[12 Nov 25 13:21 UTC] No.45899804[source]▶
    Most of the folks on this topic are focused on Meta and Yann’s departure. But, I’m seeing something different.

    This is the weirdest technology market that I’ve seen. Researchers are getting rewarded with VC money to try what remains a science experiment. That used to be a bad word and now that gets rewarded with billions of dollars in valuation.

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    1. zikduruqe ◴[12 Nov 25 13:31 UTC] No.45899901[source]▶
    > This is the weirdest technology market that I’ve seen.

    You must have not lived through the dot com boom. There was almost everything under the sun was being sold under a website that started with an "e". ePets, ePlants, eStamps, eUnderwear, eStocks, eCards, eInvites.....

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    2. cheevly ◴[12 Nov 25 13:35 UTC] No.45899944[source]▶
    These are not the same.
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    3. dolphinscorpion ◴[12 Nov 25 13:39 UTC] No.45900020[source]▶
    Yeah, this time is different. Really
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    4. ricardobeat ◴[12 Nov 25 13:46 UTC] No.45900107[source]▶
    It's funny that the Netherlands seems to still live in the dotcom boom to this day. Want to adopt a pet? verhuisdieren.nl. Want to buy wall art? wall-art.nl. Need cat5 cable? kabelshop.nl. 8/10 times there is a (legit) online store for whatever you need, to the point where one of the local e-commerce giants (Coolblue) buys this type of domain and aliases them to their main site.
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    5. nailer ◴[12 Nov 25 13:56 UTC] No.45900217[source]▶
    It did make sense though. ePlants could have cornered the online nursery market. That is a valuable market. I think people were just too early. Payment and logistics hasn’t been figured out yet.
    6. thrance ◴[12 Nov 25 13:56 UTC] No.45900221[source]▶
    Pretty funny, looks like it works in France too! animaux.fr redirects to a pet adoption service, cable.fr looks like a cable-selling shop. artmural.fr exists but looks like a personal blog from a wall artist, rather than a shop.
    7. baggachipz ◴[12 Nov 25 13:58 UTC] No.45900248[source]▶
    The Pets.ai Super Bowl commercial will trigger the burst.
    8. staticman2 ◴[12 Nov 25 14:00 UTC] No.45900266[source]▶
    That was certainly a bubble but I don't think pets.com was doing a research experiment.

    From what I recall there were some biotech stocks in that era that do fit the bill.

    9. zikduruqe ◴[12 Nov 25 14:05 UTC] No.45900325{3}[source]▶
    History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
    10. aswanson ◴[12 Nov 25 14:23 UTC] No.45900563[source]▶
    Even hardware. eMachines.
    11. bookofjoe ◴[12 Nov 25 14:36 UTC] No.45900744[source]▶
    flooz
    12. KPGv2 ◴[12 Nov 25 14:40 UTC] No.45900794[source]▶
    This is still the case in the US, too. I don't know why people are talking like it stopped happening. amazon.com, amazon.com, amazon.com, amazon.com

    All these things are still e-tail here, too. We didn't go back to B&M.

    13. jfengel ◴[12 Nov 25 15:09 UTC] No.45901161[source]▶
    Those things all worked, and all of those products still exist in one form or another. It was a business question of who would provide it, not a technology question.
    14. antonvs ◴[12 Nov 25 19:19 UTC] No.45904828[source]▶
    None of those were science experiments or research projects in any way.