It seems crazy to me that Amazon laid off a lot of the Alexa and robotics teams. You'd think if anything they'd want to invest in that more now that LLMs could

It seems crazy to me that Amazon laid off a lot of the Alexa and robotics teams. You'd think if anything they'd want to invest in that more now that LLMs could be used in combination to produce a much more natural home assistant experience. That said, whilst I think VR doesn't have a huge amount of potential (the equipment is expensive and awkward), I think there is still a lot of space for making it easier to meet and communicate with people virtually. There's still a huge amount of friction where nowadays almost every service has limited public messaging and comments, etc., and online communities are fractured across dozens of Discord or Matrix servers. I think one of the main parts of Tiktok's success has been that it makes it easy to speak to new people either via public comments or video replies, etc.