That was my thought, but I also think we're at the point that the iconic companies that have come and gone 30+ years ago are unknown to the current crop of young-ish startup founders.

I would be really curious to know if the current Thinking Machines team had any awareness of the prior company, or if they landed on that name completely unaware.

IMO this shows how we have been pursuing many of these goals for half a century now.

Made me think that the current LLM world would be better represented by this album title: https://www.discogs.com/master/61653-Carbonized-Screaming-Ma...

It’s not weird if you don’t comprehend the history of AI before coming up with your brilliant new take for a productless AI startup.