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Didn't OpenAI buy AI.com for 11 million (amount is disputable)? https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-ai-dot-com-domain-name-openai https://mashable.com/article/

Didn't OpenAI buy AI.com for 11 million (amount is disputable)? https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-ai-dot-com-domain-name-openai https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-ai-dot-com-domain-name-...

DeathArrow 3y ago
So you buy two letters for $10 and sell them for $11m? That's a ROI...
- CamelCaseName 3y ago
  Yes, but you would have had to get it in 1993 and hold it until now. The best time to buy a domain was 30 years ago
  - acters 3y ago
    The best time to buy anything was before and during the internet's creation.
  - dougSF70 3y ago
    The second best time to buy a domain is today.
    - silisili 3y ago
      I dunno 29 years ago seems better...
  - askiiart 3y ago
    Nitpick warning: .ai was actually introduced in 1995, according to Wikipedia[1]. But yeah. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ai https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ai
    - solumunus 3y ago
      They’re talking about ai.com
      - askiiart 3y ago
        Ohhhh, whoops. I'm an idiot, my bad :P
        soultrees 3y ago
        Not an idiot. I know it’s something we say in passing as a way to belittle ourselves to our mistake and that nobody takes it at face value but by you saying you’re an idiot, even in the most casual passing, deeply ingrains a thought that you are indeed an idiot. Which you are not, because if you were an idiot then you wouldn’t even know and therefore wouldn’t even be calling yourself an idiot if you were. This isn’t a dig at you specifically but just a comment to anyone who reduces themselves over a minor mistake.
MillionOClock 3y ago
From the article: > Alternative explanations, such as that someone did OpenAI a massive, multimillion dollar favor, strain plausibility. So maybe Elon Musk did, in fact, make a multimillion dollar favor to OpenAI until today?