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How Manus distanced itself from its Chinese roots to court US investors; a source says Meta's $2.5B deal includes a $500M retention pool for Manus' employees

The $2.5 billion deal could herald a new era for China-linked AI companies and U.S. investors  —  Workers at Butterfly Effect …

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  • @kyleichan Kyle Chan on x
    The Meta-Manus deal is the latest example of what I call “the Great Reversal” where technology no longer just flows from the West to China but now also from China to the West. Will do a High Capacity piece on this and what it means later.
  • @petereharrell Peter Harrell on x
    When I worked on developing the outbound investment control regime that the government set up several years ago, Meta's acquisition of Manus is precisely one of the types of impacts we were hoping for. 1. Top Chinese AI talent decides to decamp from China in order to get access
  • @chrisrmcguire Chris McGuire on x
    Great write-up in the @WSJ of @Meta's acquisition of @ManusAI. Meta confirmed to the WSJ that not only will Manus have no Chinese ownership interests, but Manus will also discontinue all services and operations in China. That's a great outcome for the US, and a bad one for China.
  • @henrysgao Henry Gao on x
    META has just landed a devastating blow to China's AI strategy by taking over Manus. The message is unmistakable: only Chinese firms willing to uproot themselves entirely and leave China behind can access real capital, talent, and global scale. The exodus is coming.
  • @headinthebox Erik Meijer on x
    I left Meta because I made a bet that models were going to commoditized and the value would be in products on top of models, but MetaMate and GenAI were highly politicized sucking up all oxygen in the room. As always, I was right.