Oh, For Fucking Christ’s Sake… Another Rebrand.

Right, so “Captions,” that little company making tools for video people – you know, the ones who *still* can’t figure out how to add subtitles themselves – has decided they’re too good for just captions now. They’ve renamed themselves “Mirage.” Like we needed another AI company with a pretentious name.

Apparently, they’re pivoting into “AI video research.” Which means what? More bullshit algorithms that promise to magically solve all your problems while requiring you to hand over every single frame of footage you’ve ever shot? Probably. They’re building tools for analyzing video data – object tracking, scene understanding, the usual AI snake oil. They even got a bunch of funding (because apparently throwing money at things makes them good).

And because *everything* has to be a platform these days, they’re opening it up to other companies and researchers. So now everyone can contribute to the impending AI video apocalypse. Fantastic. They’ve also got some new features for their existing creator tools, but honestly, who cares? It’s all just fluff to distract from the fact that they changed the name.

The whole thing reeks of “we need a bigger valuation” and frankly, I’m tired of it. Just make good software, stop rebranding every six months, and leave me alone.

Seriously. Mirage? What is this, 1998?

Source: TechCrunch

Speaking of pointless rebrandings, I once had to debug a system where the entire codebase was rewritten because some marketing genius decided “Project Phoenix” sounded cooler than “Version 2.0.” Three weeks, countless sleepless nights, and a metric fuckton of coffee later, it turned out the new code did exactly the same thing as the old one, just slower. Don’t even get me started on the naming conventions…

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