side project
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Along the way, as the cloud business progressed from a side project to a major part of Amazon’s business, companies stopped asking why they should turn their computing needs over to a bookseller.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
Startup DeepSeek started life in 2023 as a side project of a data-driven hedge fund, but shook up the global AI scene with its "R1" model in January 2025.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
Born Bohan Daniel Lueders in November 1987, the musician co-founded Harm’s Way in 2006 as a side project of the punk band Few and the Proud.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
As a side project, engineer Boris Cherny built a prototype to control Spotify with Anthropic’s AI Claude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
From the other side project stout bamboo poles, to the outer ends of which is fastened a boat-shaped log of wood.
From Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various