I'm always baffled by the language used for acquisitions. More correct would be, "ManusAI gets bought off by Meta".
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#142Why do people buy these slop companies? An API wrapper isn’t some new technology. You get nothing from it.
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#143Why do people buy these slop companies? An API wrapper isn’t some new technology. You get nothing from it.
It has nothing to do with logic, rather this person knows that person etc.
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#144I don't like it.
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Bubble aside, it feels AI is by nature a less democratic tech. The need for stupid amounts of data and hardware make it less likely that a really talented person can outcompete companies from their basement. That probably influences culture.
True, but I think there's kitchen table opportunity in applications that don't need to do a big training, and that have tractable inferencing requirements. The challenges I see are: (1) there's a lot of competition in the gold rush; (2) there's a lot of noise of AI slop implementations, including by anyone who sees your demo.
You also can fine tuned LLMs. For that, you don't need big money. You also can pick up a fine tuned LLM and go from there and make it better ( for your use case)
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Mata acquired a great marketing team. Their marketing skills and hyping skills are far superior to their technical skils
How does due diligence work for these type of acquisitions, do they even have one? What do they think they’re buying? A team? Technology? A brand?
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#147Sometimes I feel people are just jealous. If Meta is so ready to throw money why don't these people just build something and sell it to them for billions in 6 months. Join the winning side instead of complaining.
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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.
Congrats, you have summarized the majority of SV startups.
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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 th…
Bubble aside, it feels AI is by nature a less democratic tech. The need for stupid amounts of data and hardware make it less likely that a really talented person can outcompete companies from their basement. That probably influences culture.
It's why these people love AI so much. Less of a competition to worry about.
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#150I’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.
The crypto bros switched over to AI.