They have to do it now. After the probable IPO failures of SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic no one will give them money.

It is odd that they cite customer demand just after people leave Google for DuckDuckGo due to AI enshittification.

protocolture 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hey 3 hour old account, how will we keep you accountable when they successfully IPO? Like I am a downer on these companies too but idiots are lining up to buy.

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deathanatos 3 hours ago | parent [-]

They are stating they believe they're one of like the top 10 or 20 biggest companies in the world, across all industries. The statement is ludicrous.

… but as you say, idiots are lining up.

	▲	protocolture an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent or whatever.

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iamacyborg 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> It is odd that they cite customer demand just after people leave Google for DuckDuckGo due to AI enshittification.

You’ll probably find this is extremely limited to whatever circle you find yourself in

	▲	argee 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		As long as the default on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari is Google, I doubt any of this "retaliatory flight" registers as even a blip.
	▲	verdverm 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The other thing people do is associate google only with their consumer facing products. Their cloud business is growing like crazy and they have the best Ai chips for running efficiently/economically at scale (TPUs, vertical integration). There's a reason they run everyone's models better than they can themselves on nvidia cards

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tweaktastic 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> After the probable IPO failures of SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic no one will give them money.

People are going to line up for all of them. Hype sells these days.

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dyauspitr 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No one is using DuckDuckGo. Those IPOs are going to go gangbusters, atleast for a while.