Acquisition as marketing

Two digital wastelands, a match made in heaven.

why in gods name is that worth anything

> Last month, OpenAI hired Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw. That product is now being open-sourced with OpenAI's backing.

What? OpenClaw was not open source? And I'm similarly surprised OpenAI would help "open" anything...

Does anyone know what happened at Meta internally with the AI pushes? It seems like Llama was gonna crush it and become a serious contender but after Llama 4 it just disappeared. No mentions at all in the world stage. :(

I mean, is this so surprising?

With Meta focusing so much on social networks (Facebook, Messenger, Whatsapp, Instagram, Threads) acquiring the first social network for AI agents makes sense. They can fix the technical debt later.

bonfire of the vanities, redux

Not rent-a-human?

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This is like when Union Square Ventures invested in CryptoKitties. I kind of lost a bunch of respect for them after that. These are the same guys that backed Twitter, Etsy, Stripe and Coinbase.