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Jaeden Shafer

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405 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

They're giving their customers about 30 days to transition off the platform because really the platform is kind of shutting down and the team's moving over to Anthropic.

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

So on the one hand, he's like, hey, you know, congrats to the whole team over at Anthropic.

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

He was, you know, quite critical.

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

And in another exchange, he actually started criticizing Bannon, one of the early investors, suggesting that the company had not hired the right business leadership.

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

Bannon, of course, then on LinkedIn is pushing back publicly.

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

He's kind of defending the founders.

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

And then he more like frames the acquisition as a good outcome.

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

So anyways, there's this back and forth that kind of escalated.

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

There's like,

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

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

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

It's pretty crazy to be honest.

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

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?

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

I'm not sure.

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

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

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

It seems very promising.

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

It's got a lot of traction.

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

It's got $50 million in backing.

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

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

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

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

AI in Business
Anthropic Acquires Vercept Amidst Pentagon Standoff

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