Thanks for all the amazing work! I have Noob question. Wouldn't this get the funding back? Or would that not be preferable way to continue(as opposed to just volunteer driven)?

Like this is a big deal to get a project to a state where volunteers are spun up and actively breaking tasks and getting work done, no? It's a python JIT something I know next to nothing about — as do most application developers — which tells one how difficult this must have been.

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pansa2 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Wouldn't this get the funding back?

The funding was Microsoft employing most of the team. They were laid off (or at least, moved onto different projects), apparently because they weren't working on AI.

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kelvinjps 10 hours ago | parent [-]

With Python being the main language for AI, isn't like more important to be more performant? I kinda don't get Microsoft reasoning, maybe they're just tight in money

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brianwawok 10 hours ago | parent [-]

I don’t think Python is the main language of AI.

	▲	eru 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Python is pretty big as glue in the AI ecosystem as far as I can tell. It also seems to be most agent's 'preferred' language to write code in, when you don't specify anything. (The latter is probably more to do with the preferences they give it in the re-inforcement learning phase than anything technical, though.)

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Ralfp 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It looks like ARM picked up plenty of those folk and pays them to continue this work.