Your listing is not exhaustive - startups can also be acquired for politics, for marketing purposes, whatever. There is a lot of meat space things going on in the upper echelons of the US tech industry.
Recent history shows that an idealized view only focusing on fiduciary duty does not capture the whole picture of business in the USA.
Rarely does one acquire dollars for the sake of having dollars. Dollars are power tokens, and the acquisition of them beyond a certain point is almost always accompanied by a motive.
Legacy system users are also the one who pays the most for tools and services. We sell to enterprise, I can attest to that. If it is relevant usecase and positioning for the market, it should be fine.
yeah it’s been interesting to watch, we were surprised initially at how much legacy users actually wanted to adopt AI - I think it’s because of how awful the old software can be to interact with
It is just ironic - there are other countries who want talent that goes to US but does not have industry to support them. I guess this is how monopoly looks like.
I have been using GPT 5.5 to build a video game. Benchmark sounds about right. It generates assets and sprite good enough, if not closer to AAA level games. Will check antigravity now.
Would you be able to share a bit about your workflow? Have been meaning to try AI gen for game models, and would love to know how people are tackling this.
After reading Madhu's Wikipedia page and some basic research it looks like he failed his polygraph required to access controlled compartmentalized information (SCI), then DHS (under Noem) then fired six career staffers because of him failing his polygraph. He also does not appear to meet the US Persons requirement for TS:SCI clearance.
That's somehow more bananas to me than so many other things the Trump admin has done, simply because they managed to break the Iron Law of Bureaucracy, but of course only in ways which further damage the country through corruption and incompetence.
Wow. That is bananas. How in the world did anyone ever consider him to be the right guy for the job? There has to be an agreement in place to leak sensitive stuff to anyone who will pay for it. Cut a check and we'll let your guy handle it.
Imagine joining an organization with 3k employees in 2025 and not having access to an LLM.
It’s well known that the federal govt over-classifies many documents. This former CISA head alleged dumped “for official use” documents. Obviously, he should have pushed for the chatgpt enterprise account (or equivalent) but we dont know what bureaucratic obstacles he was up against.
1. Product 2. Talent 3. Business/growth
In the AI era, some of acquisition happening in the space is for talent and product.
In this case, it looks like it was that. Vite is a great product they were able to build a great team.
You would be surprised how much of a premium companies can pay for talent.
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