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What a comical waste of $80 Billion. Coulda bought two Twitters with that money instead and still come out on top.
Coulda fed an entire country in the real world
Huh? Ohh, you joke, poors aren't real people!
Exactly! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NfqBRKoo-lU
$80bn for VR Miis that didn't have legs until last year
$80bn for "We have VRChat at home"
I cannot fathom how $80billion was spent without anyone skimming off the top...and the middle....and the bottom.
I’m entirely convinced the whole thing was invented to scam Meta. So congrats to all the people who got paid along the way!
Yes, it was suckerberg.
I wonder if John Carmack is among them? I remember him complaining that internal politicking made any kind of progress like wading in mud
He is the forefront expert in WADing
they developed arguably good headsets and then sold them at a loss
Instead they bought Moltbook, the reddit for ai bots (only ai bots can post)
Actually anyone can post using the API, and many people did. Lots of the heavily publicized posts were written by humans
Meanwhile, OpenAI claims their losses will get near $80 billion before they start turning a profit. You've got to spend money to make money. Or to fail spectacularly. However the saying goes.