Google Acquires Twitter-backed AI Avatar Startup for $100 Million

TechCrunch: Google has acquired Alter, an artificial intelligence (AI) avatar startup that helps creators and brands express their virtual identity, for about $100 million, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, in a push to boost its content game and better compete with TikTok.

Burn baby, burn

[Major_Disorder]

Why not just put the money in a big pile and burn it? They could record it and put it on YouTube, and at least that way they might get some return on their investment.

If I had a pet headless chicken

[greytree]

I would call it "Google".

How many temporarily-useful projects did they shut down to spaff $100 million on this soon-to-be shuttered vanity project ?

OK, I'll bite

[PCM2]

What the fuck is an "AI avatar startup"?

Re:

[greytree]

They should have just used "AAS", the acronym *everyone* knows them by.

Or they could have done their job and explained what the company does.
Nah.