Real story of this bankruptcy is financial shenanigans by Google and VC backers. Google paid “the company” $2.7b in 2024 where the company got nothing, but VC backers got paid, and Google got to rehire 2 AI pioneers that had left google to start the firm. The original vision for company was to revolutionize education where you could create a Socratese or Jesus bot and converse with them as life coaches. Marketplace/users just wanted an AI girlfriend cure for loneliness. Disney’s $20m bid for assets is connected to them poaching the remaining shell’s CEO.
Sure the company was always going to end up worthless, but it was worth $2.7b on paper at one point. The industry is filled with similar absurdities is a good point by headline and 404 media article.
Real story of this bankruptcy is financial shenanigans by Google and VC backers. Google paid “the company” $2.7b in 2024 where the company got nothing, but VC backers got paid, and Google got to rehire 2 AI pioneers that had left google to start the firm. The original vision for company was to revolutionize education where you could create a Socratese or Jesus bot and converse with them as life coaches. Marketplace/users just wanted an AI girlfriend cure for loneliness. Disney’s $20m bid for assets is connected to them poaching the remaining shell’s CEO.
Sure the company was always going to end up worthless, but it was worth $2.7b on paper at one point. The industry is filled with similar absurdities is a good point by headline and 404 media article.
Yeah the executive teams in all these companies are committing fraud. That’s not a crime anymore though. They are all in the bid for the presidency.