Jaden Shafer

There's like,

legal threats and all of these things in the comments, a lot of accusations.

It's pretty crazy to be honest.

I think what's interesting is beyond just kind of the drama behind this whole exchange and like, why did this have to happen publicly?

I'm not sure.

But what's interesting is just the fact that there is a startup.

It seems very promising.

It's got a lot of traction.

It's got $50 million in backing.

It's got a lot of, you know, credible people involved with it.

And in less than a year, it's basically folding up and going into one of the top AI labs.

They didn't say what the terms of the deal was.

Ed Zoni said that he got a positive return on his investment, but he also did kind of a statement over to GeekWire where he said he was disappointed that the company, with as much momentum as they had, was basically winding down so quickly.

Like, did they really give it a full shot after less than a year and the amount of money they'd raised?

um so i think if you compare that to asani and what she was saying on linkedin she kind of described this as a really kind of straightforward joining forces with anthropic was kind of the best bet that they had to be successful and i mean this is kind of how every company that gets acquired they're always like look we're we know you guys loved us but like we're better together with anthropic

But I think for the customers anyways, it's pretty annoying to trust a startup that gets acquired by Anthropic and then the startup's like, and we're winding down.

So any of the tools and features you like are gone, but you go find something new.

Anyways, it leaves bad taste in a lot of people's mouths, but obviously they're making a lot of money.

That's the direction they wanna take.

Now, what I will say is this acquisition is now coming in a really tense moment for Anthropic.