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So they are just slapping random price tags on things now. It's a database of AI questions. They have paid 13 billion dollars for a database, and everyone's acting like that's a perfectly rational sensible thing to do. No one in the financial industry has any sense anymore.
A company that's only product is something that people either don't want or actively hate has paid an eye-watering amount of money for a database to train their product on, this training will have no effect whatsoever on whether people want it.
I have this nice bridge with lots of training examples if anybody's interested, 100 trillion dollars please
not everyone has a hate boner for AI
It's an expensive toy that might become a viable product in a decade that doesn't mean it's a valuable company today. Irresponsible spending like this is exactly what led to the dot com bubble.
its a useful tool for me doing research.
Isn't hugging face a database of already trained models?
Partially. But they also host datasets.