What VCs? As far as I know, Numenta was funded by its founder, Jeff Hawkins, with his own money. More importantly, they never really cared about making a profi

What VCs? As far as I know, Numenta was funded by its founder, Jeff Hawkins, with his own money. More importantly, they never really cared about making a profit. Their main goal has always been reverse engineering the neocortex. And regarding "shipping a product", both production-ready [0], and research [1] codebases are both open source, and being actively worked on. Next time please refrain from making bold claims about companies you know very little about. [0] https://github.com/numenta/nupic https://github.com/numenta/nupic [1] https://github.com/numenta/nupic.research https://github.com/numenta/nupic.research