This prize/competition has become a meme in itself and inspired hordes and hordes of people to dabble with recommendation systems. The advance of recsys is in

This prize/competition has become a meme in itself and inspired hordes and hordes of people to dabble with recommendation systems. The advance of recsys is in big part thanks for Netflix because it attracted a lot of people to the field, all companies started developing inhouse RecSys just like today you hear about inhouse LLM/chatgpt wrappers etc