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Did Mozilla score some absolutely unrelated deal with Amazon by any chance recently? They killed DeepSpeech very same day NVIDIA paid them $1.5mil
by rasz 1y ago
Did Mozilla score some absolutely unrelated deal with Amazon by any chance recently? They killed DeepSpeech very same day NVIDIA paid them $1.5mil
- i80and 1y agoDeepSpeech shuttered in 2021. The repo was just made read-only the other day
- rasz 1y agoApril 12 2021 https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-partners-with-nvidia-to-democratize-and-diversify-voice-technology/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-partners-with-nv... https://venturebeat.com/business/mozilla-winds-down-deepspeech-development-announces-grant-program/ https://venturebeat.com/business/mozilla-winds-down-deepspee...
- doppio19 1y agoNot that I'm aware of. But I do know that in late 2024, Amazon made a change where users now have to be logged in to view product reviews beyond the ones that appear on the first page (about 8 reviews). From what I can tell, Fakespot scraped the Amazon product listing pages on their backend, so that simple change would have pretty much killed its current implementation.
- rasz 1y agoIndeed. You would need a plugin running on user computers, or maybe even control over User Agent. Insurmountable blocker for Mozilla.
- ashoeafoot 1y agoSo they wrote a ping pong shader for monetization going with the user or selling out the user.