2025-12-30
Big gain for Meta. Manus gave many users their first real taste of autonomous AI agents that don't just answer questions but tackle complex workflows from start to finish. Now, with Manus joining Meta's AI ecosystem, that vision gets supercharged with Meta's scale, tools, and business integration.
Bloomberg
Meta agrees to acquire Singapore-based startup Manus, which makes an AI agent for SMBs; Manus said earlier in December its annual revenue run rate was $125M+
Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to buy Manus, a popular Singapore-based artificial intelligence agent with Chinese roots …
Big gain for Meta. Manus gave many users their first real taste of autonomous AI agents that don't just answer questions but tackle complex workflows from start to finish. Now, with Manus joining Meta's AI ecosystem, that vision gets supercharged with Meta's scale, tools, and business integration.
Wall Street Journal
Sources: Meta is buying Manus for $2B+; Manus was raising at a $2B valuation when Meta approached it; Manus CEO Xiao Hong will report to Meta COO Javier Olivan
The deal for more than $2 billion is one of the first in which a major U.S. tech company has bought a startup with Chinese roots
2025-10-15
I'm seeing a lot of similar reactions from others including @TheZvi. Claiming this just stretches credibility without any evidence, outside evals, etc. Also curious if any of the 8 who signed up to be on the well-being council would say that OpenAI has fixed the problem. I testified before the Senate HELP committee last week and the consistent, bi-partisan concern was around children's safety and AI...This claim could expose OpenAI to serious legal risk if ChatGPT is ever linked to another mental health or suicide incident
CNBC
OpenAI forms the Expert Council on Well-Being and AI, with eight experts to help guide OpenAI's work on ChatGPT and Sora
Ashley Capoot / CNBC :
2025-10-05
It feels like the last couple of months have been marked by piecemeal product updates like this. What would be even more valuable is if OpenAI began incorporating structured reporting through System Cards and evaluator updates on the emerging harms and risks they're seeing in
@openai
OpenAI updates GPT-5 Instant to better recognize and support people in distress; ChatGPT will route such sensitive parts of conversations to the model
2025-01-03
Congratulations to Joel Kaplan on his appointment as Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer! With decades of experience spanning his time at Meta, the White House, and OMB, Joel is uniquely qualified to lead on both domestic and international issues. His leadership comes at a
Bloomberg
Meta required a public statesman like Nick Clegg after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but now turns to the in-house Republican Joel Kaplan to appease Trump
The former UK politician was a public statesman when Meta required one. A different approach will be called for under Trump.
Congratulations to Joel Kaplan on his appointment as Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer! With decades of experience spanning his time at Meta, the White House, and OMB, Joel is uniquely qualified to lead on both domestic and international issues. His leadership comes at a
Semafor
Meta appoints Joel Kaplan as Chief Global Affairs Officer, replacing Nick Clegg, who is leaving the company; Kaplan is Meta's most prominent Republican
www.semafor.com/article/01/0... [embedded post] Sam Jeffers / @worklesshard : Seems a bit backward for Clegg to leave now. Nothing will happen in the US for years, while EU DSA e...
2023-03-15
GPT-4 with some impressive pass rates of a variety of exams. “We tested GPT-4 on a diverse set of benchmarks, including simulating exams that were originally designed for humans. We did no specific training for these exams.” https://cdn.openai.com/... https://twitter.com/...
OpenAI
OpenAI debuts GPT-4, claiming the model “surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities”, available in ChatGPT Plus and as an API that has a waitlist
Following the research path from GPT, GPT-2, and GPT-3, our deep learning approach leverages more data and more computation …
GPT-4 with some impressive pass rates of a variety of exams. “We tested GPT-4 on a diverse set of benchmarks, including simulating exams that were originally designed for humans. We did no specific training for these exams.” https://cdn.openai.com/... https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
GPT-4 has learned to be more precise and more accurate than its predecessor, gained the ability to respond to images as well as text, but still hallucinates
from processing pictures to acing tests Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust : GPT-4's successes, and GPT-4's failures Tweets: Geoff Brumfiel / @gbrumfiel : I got access to @O...