The world still contains vast amounts of unused data. But the cheap, clean and permissionless text that powered the first LLM boom is becoming polluted by AI output, contested by its owners and costly to replace. This week, AI companies were reportedly buying old books while Nvidia released a simulator that teaches robots through video, motion and synthetic consequences.
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