Kurzweil's company could not even give away versions of its technology that were two generations old.
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Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Reasoning
Anecdotal claim about the company's own market experience, no independent record.
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Ray Kurzweil, “Kurzweil's company could not even give away versions of its technology that were two generations old.” (said 2001). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_96b2295bbccd, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_96b2295bbccd
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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