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In May 2023 Google famously said “We Have No Moat And Neither Does OpenAI”. By that they meant they have no future protected business model to justify the tens of billions they are all burning through every month developing AI. Maybe it's even worse - even when they start to build the tiniest of moats, China drains it dry.

Here we see more evidence for that proposition, Tencent's HunyuanVideo, the equal of leading western AI video generation models. Tencent released HunyuanVideo’s open weights and code, making the model readily available for both researchers and commercial uses.

Where will all this end? Many people think AI funding is currently at the irrational exuberance end-of-bubble phase. Will this make it 'too big to fail' when it does? Will we see future public bailouts in the 100's of billions for AI companies?

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I am very interesting in sourcing various inputs from different communities. I am developing a project to help people practice their imagination of the distant but not so distant future.

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Tesla has given its first demonstration of its newly upgraded Optimus hand, showcasing its ability to catch a tennis ball.

The brief video showed Optimus effortlessly catching two tennis balls with precision and smooth movements.

Tesla Senior Staff Software Engineer Julian Ibarz confirmed in a follow-up post that the demonstration was teleoperated.

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