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Brewing brand love: how AI startups are reaching subscribers through coffee — the cappuccinos are camouflage.

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Really just grasping at straws towards profitability

[–] Pistcow@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

$4 trillion valuation on $12 billion of revenue. Seems reasonable.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago

The fact that TSLA is still not in free fall show that the whole market is nothing but vibes and a rigged game

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Pistcow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Costco had $275 billion dollars, $32 billion profit sooooo we should start a VC to put concrete rectangle building into every single neighborhood.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago

Mfw masses flock to these portals to hell.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

AI companies are simply following the leads of beauty, fashion, and lifestyle brands that have turned to IRL (“in real life”) activations to bond with consumers, she explained.

Ah yes, I love bonding with brands.

[–] adb@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

It really seems like they’re grasping at straws trying to make LLMs profitable

[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 7 points 1 week ago

This is how human enslavement begins

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Money laundering?

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 week ago

Traditional advertisement is a trash fire. This provides a different way to get user engagement.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 1 week ago

Starbucks: stop lingering! I'm and out, let's go!

Sam Altman: no wait

[–] cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Stay out of my coffee.