As for product companies, like Ramp, buying domains as an investment is generally a terrible idea. Domains are not liquid, the (hypothetical) $5 million that Ramp paid is not a price Ramp could achieve when selling the domain tomorrow. The previous owners owned Router.com for over 20 years before Ramp came along, willing to pay a lot of money for it.
Sometimes a company will buy a domain, use it, shut down whatever it was, then end up with the domain on their balance sheet for years, even decades, before someone tracks them down and offers to buy it. In those cases, the company can make money off the domain, but for every time that happens, there’s thousands more domains on balance sheets that nobody wants to pay a good amount for.
More broadly, domain name investors make their money by buying lots of domains and holding them over the long term, making their money from the very small number that sell. Part of why good domains are so expensive is that 1 sale needs to cover the cost of hundreds of even thousands of other domains that don’t sell.
Their site is a totally blank HTML page, it seems?
Otherwise I think they just meant chinese models not mainstream models.
Like Hy3, Mimo, etc. Also gemini models but not sure if they are mainstream anymore.
Save for GLM 5.3 - coming soon once it percolates through our providers.
A few years ago, companies buying random companies from a completely different sector was frowned upon by stakeholders
Big tech emails leaked during a trial over a decade ago; C-level types agreed they need not truly compete and see each other as one big company.
Screen based filter bubble living has kept the digital generation ignorant; it's all built on the same physical principles. No point pretending, at their level, they're doing anything truly different
Mirror neurons are a helluva drug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron
Society evolves slowly as generational churn is not fast
https://engineering.ramp.com/post/thompson-sampling-model-ro...
Indeed, probably not cheap. Ironically, they see themselves as the ones that should help others "stop overpaying for things" and "help companies make better spending decisions":
> Wait, Ramp bought router.com? We did. It was either this or spend the next year spelling out a longer URL on podcasts. More importantly, we build tools that help companies make better spending decisions and stop overpaying for things.
Why is it that every AI-product think dark UX with default data harvesting of proprietary data is a great idea? I mean it's rhetorical, stealing for training is the norm, but it's still just as disappointing every time I see it.