AI chip startup snubs surprising offer from Mark Zuckerberg
This unexpected development is likely a blow to Meta's grand AI plans.
Anyone alive in the mid-2000s remembers an era in which Facebook, not yet Meta Platforms (META) , dominated Silicon Valley. Startup entrepreneurs worked tirelessly to have their companies acquired by Zuckerberg.
In his 2019 book Bitcoin Billionaires, Ben Mezrich details Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss's challenges when they attempted to launch a venture capital firm in Zuckerberg’s Silicon Valley. The brothers quickly found that even cash-strapped startups were afraid to do business with them for missing out on an offer from Facebook’s founder.
