Google Acquires Twitter-backed AI Avatar Startup for $100 Million
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Google Acquires Twitter-backed AI Avatar Startup for $100 Million (techcrunch.com)
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from the how-about-that dept.
TechCrunch: Google has acquired Alter, an artificial intelligence (AI) avatar startup that helps creators and brands express their virtual identity, for about $100 million, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, in a push to boost its content game and better compete with TikTok.
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Burn baby, burn
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by Major_Disorder ( 5019363 )
Why not just put the money in a big pile and burn it? They could record it and put it on YouTube, and at least that way they might get some return on their investment.
If I had a pet headless chicken
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by greytree ( 7124971 )
I would call it “Google”.
How many temporarily-useful projects did they shut down to spaff $100 million on this soon-to-be shuttered vanity project ?