2025-12-30
**Meta has entered that chat** Manus isn't code directly but I'm increasingly feeling like there is no difference between a coding agent and a general agent (since code generalizes).
Wall Street Journal
Sources: Meta is buying Manus for $2B+; Manus was raising at a $2B valuation when Meta approached it; Manus CEO Xiao Hong will report to Meta COO Javier Olivan
The deal for more than $2 billion is one of the first in which a major U.S. tech company has bought a startup with Chinese roots
**Meta has entered that chat** Manus isn't code directly but I'm increasingly feeling like there is no difference between a coding agent and a general agent (since code generalizes).
Bloomberg
Meta agrees to acquire Singapore-based startup Manus, which makes an AI agent for SMBs; Manus said earlier in December its annual revenue run rate was $125M+
Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to buy Manus, a popular Singapore-based artificial intelligence agent with Chinese roots …
2022-07-15
The best part about Farcaster (aside from the community) is that you'd never know that it's decentralized — truly the future of web3. Instead of focusing on maximal decentralization, Dan and Varun are focused on sufficient decentralization. https://twitter.com/...
The Block
Los Angeles-based Merkle Manufactory, which is developing a “sufficiently decentralized” social network protocol called Farcaster, has raised $30M led by a16z
Two years ago, Varun and I started working together on an idea called RSS+. Wayne Jones / crypto.news : U.S. Inflation at 9.1%, Farcaster's Successful in a Funding Round, Crypto Ma...