Comment by tsunamifury
1 year ago
Have some familiarity with the players here. The founders are core model nerds and accidentally happen upon success as a majority sex chat product. They have little interest in that and investors are likely saying they won’t support any more core model research. The Google deal lets the founders go back to doing core model work for Google and the company to focus on a consumer only product that uses third party models.
> core model research
What do you mean by this? Fundamental research? It makes sense, most of the innovations now will be in things like clever caching mechanisms and reducing compute.