AI companies are buying the Slack data of failed startups (opens in new tab)

(twitter.com)

40 pointsharambae23d ago10 comments

10 comments

evil-olive23d ago

actual link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-tra...

never_inline23d ago

Krazam vindicated

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IU4ByUbDKNc

simianwords23d ago

This is extremely good news and they should also buy their codebase. There’s a lot of alpha in buying dead people’s WhatsApp chat history and so on

blablabla12323d ago

This makes me wonder...do AI companies actually train their public models also on their own code?

Bombthecat23d ago

Alpha?

ej8822d ago

alpha is your abnormal rate of return

more colloquially it's your 'edge' over your competitors

chmod77523d ago

Now you can build a failed startup with the help of AI!

kittikitti23d ago

Slop in, slop out.

nitwit00522d ago

This is closer to failure in, failure out.

kushie23d ago

yeah but it's my slop!

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