other than proving it can be done, what purpose does it serve.
But, there can be spinoff technology in this endeaver from AI to biological and that is the undertone. Mammoths are the shiney thing.
The fact is there has been a lot of “easy” come money available to invest in high risk. Loss on this also offsets profits from other activity, always a tax angle.
Historically there have been other wild ideas that have been invested in. most fail, some succeed.
“Personally I would not invest my money in this for a variety of reasons.”
I invest my money where there are going to be returns. Where’s the return from this work? I see three possible customers: government, livestock/food, and zoos. What other customers would there be?
If you are counting on the government for your success, you are going to have lots of ups and downs and government fads come and go, as administrations change.