Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly”.
TikTok was never approved for sale. China would never give that kind of soft power up.
I dunno, Trump showed the world you can completely give up decades of hard won soft power in only two months, maybe China will think it's cool?
/S
considering trump said he'd give the us back to the uk the other day he'll probably be selling the us to china in the next week
ByteDance will never sell the TikTok algo. They'll handover a tamed version, but never the cutting edge.
The point is that the US, and US companies, think they can bully their way to preminence and they can't.
They can fuck a whole lot of shit up on the way there though
Only for the us in this case. The us isn't even the money maker for tiktok.
Even ignoring geopolitics, I don’t think Tencent is going to accept shares in an unprofitable start up in an unproven and possibly permanently unprofitable industry in exchange for one of the most valuable tech properties on Earth.
.......I never knew I had a strong opinion on tiktok, but I want this to happen.
To fill TikTok with enough slop to make its users go elsewhere?
The ol' Reddit Treatment
Now that you mention it, I want this too.
"but money"
Interesting idea.