> our agent has processed more than 147 Trillion tokens and powered the creation of over 80 Million virtual computers
These numbers sound like from their internal testing instead of from real customer base.
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hear you, and mostly share the point of view, but that’s what people were saying about the instagram valuation too.
What's the dollar-per-user figure between these two examples?
Instagram only had approx 10mn users when acquired. That was a long time ago though, and Facebook was at a very different stage in its lifecycle.
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#123I’m wondering why these companies are so hyped and valued at these astronomical levels. Honestly, nothing really impresses me enough to think, “Wow, this company actually deserves that kind of valuation”. These valuations are to the point point that this looks too close to money laundering, just like buying art.
Because our markets are no longer efficient at allocating capital. These companies are too large, they don't compete. They can buy a company for half a billion and write it off a few months later, at the whim of someone deranged by hype. How many businesses in competitive markets can afford to do that?
And the reason is all of you dumping cash into the market no matter what because John Bogle said so half a century ago.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aquisitions so fast it is income not capital gains.
Capital gains are a form of income, and have nothing to do with speed ( long-term capital gains are distinguished from short-term capital gains by speed, but...)
Some countries tax will diffferentiate income and capital gains, tax based on speed, and consider capital gains income if you are systematically making money e.g. buying and selling stock multiple times per year even if holding for a while.
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#125I remember this company from the very beginning. I was very confused by them, but just the other day they sent an email saying they had hit $100MM ARR and $125MM run rate.
Who is paying? No clue, must be big in China.
I skipped going to their hackathon :')
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#126From their Wikipedia, because I had no idea who they were: "Following Manus's launch in March 2025, Butterfly Effect raised $75 million in a funding round led by Benchmark at a valuation of approximately $500 million in April 2025." Half a billion a month after launch and acquisition before the end of the same year. Wild times.
Yet the new AI startups I'm seeing are only offering terrible deals to early hires who could improve their chances of a nice exit.
In this crazy environment -- in which money is flying around over AI much like the dotcom boom, but startup founders are using the last-decade playbook of not sharing the wealth with early hires -- I'm starting to think that smart AI job-seekers need to either:
* get hired by a company that is willing to invest in hiring (i.e., reasonable salary and/or meaningful equity); or
* build some AI application IP at their kitchen table, to sell to a company that's flush with cash, and wants to invest in AI acquisitions.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am Chinese and AI founder since 2023 This statement is completely baseless 1. Manus was never targeting Chinese domestic market, for obvious reasons 2. Manus was founded by successful founder with exit, backed toptier investors in China, they always have great reputation in the AI industry 3. Prior to manus' launch, the team developed Monica, as they are the frontier AI chat bot aggregator I really felt disgusted b…
I am also Chinese and AI founder. > they always have great reputation in the AI industry Highly doubt this. > the team developed Monica, as they are the frontier AI chat bot aggregator How is this remotely technically impressive? LLM chat apps have been commoditized for years already. Even within the Chinese tech/AI community, Manus has often been frowned upon. People literally built OpenManus the next day after Manu…
> People literally built OpenManus the next day after Manus' launch marketing went viral to demonstrate the point.
I tried openmanus and I frowned at openmanus team's intentionally attention grabbing gimmick after manus' overnight success, and open manus does not work at the moment.
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#128From their Wikipedia, because I had no idea who they were: "Following Manus's launch in March 2025, Butterfly Effect raised $75 million in a funding round led by Benchmark at a valuation of approximately $500 million in April 2025." Half a billion a month after launch and acquisition before the end of the same year. Wild times.
There's a saying "follow the money". In this case you just need to follow the people involved in this company and the ones who negotiated this deal from Meta side and you will get the answer why it was acquired and why its valued so high. Financial engineering and social networking at its best.
It really does seem like friends giving friends a piece of the pie before it all blows up.
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#129This acquisition is a complete joke in China. From the very beginning, the company focused almost entirely on marketing. Then, after a few months, it fled China and relocated to Singapore. Now that it’s been acquired by Meta, you could say it has finally fulfilled its mission.
Mata acquired a great marketing team. Their marketing skills and hyping skills are far superior to their technical skils
It’s because the Meta brand is poison.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mata acquired a great marketing team. Their marketing skills and hyping skills are far superior to their technical skils
but then again in this day and age maybe marketing skills are more important than anything else...
I have never heard about Manus before that post about them reaching 100M ARR or something. Where did they advertise?