Tim Bradshaw
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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It's unclear where that would come from, or even persuade the investors that backed it originally to take it back.
Some of which were American VC firms like Benchmark, which by and large are being strongly discouraged from investing in Chinese AI companies.
And if
Beijing is stamping this as a Chinese AI company.
By making this move, that will complicate efforts for Meta to try and get their money back from Manus' original investors.
Meta has actually said very little about this, not perhaps wanting to get into too public a fight with Beijing just yet.
They say that the transaction complied fully with applicable laws and they anticipate an appropriate resolution.
That seems somewhat optimistic at this point, but we shall see how things proceed from here.
It'll be very interesting to watch.
It's definitely a blow to Meta, which had been investing very heavily in all sorts of ways to catch up with the likes of Google and OpenAI.
And this was clearly a very talented team, and the AI race is very much about talent.
And so if there are greater blocks on US companies pulling in talent from China, then that is going to complicate a lot of the research efforts that are ongoing with Chinese nationals that work quite legitimately for American companies in Silicon Valley.
But I think also it just kind of shows how much
the sovereign AI war is really heating up.
And that is one that's being fought between Washington and Beijing primarily.
But every government is trying to figure out what their own AI strategy is.
So as governments get very anxious about what AI might do to their economies in the future and whether they're going to have a foothold on that growth engine, I don't think this will be the last national intervention that we see of this kind.
The latest episode of the Next Five podcast is all about fraud versus reality in the age of AI.
Simon Miller at CFAS joins me.
AI has made scanning and scanners emotionally intelligent.
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