{"id":26325,"date":"2024-08-30T20:20:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T20:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/108027451"},"modified":"2024-08-30T20:20:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T20:20:05","slug":"the-sneaky-way-big-tech-is-acquiring-ai-unicorns-without-buying-the-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/the-sneaky-way-big-tech-is-acquiring-ai-unicorns-without-buying-the-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"The sneaky way Big Tech is acquiring AI unicorns without buying the companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/the-sneaky-way-big-tech-is-acquiring-ai-unicorns-without-buying-the-companies.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p><span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Microsoft<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-2\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Google<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-3\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Amazon<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> along with other tech companies have been getting creative in how they&#8217;re poaching talent from top artificial intelligence startups.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, <span class=\"waslinkname\">Google signed an unusual deal<\/span> with&nbsp;<span class=\"waslinkname\">Character.ai<\/span>&nbsp;to hire away its prominent founder and more than one-fifth of its workforce while also licensing its technology. It looked like an acquisition, but the deal was structured so that it wasn&#8217;t. Google wasn&#8217;t the first to take this approach.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft laid the groundwork in its <span class=\"waslinkname\">deal with Inflection<\/span>, closely followed by Amazon&#8217;s <span class=\"waslinkname\">faux acquisition of Adept.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a playbook that skirts regulators and their crackdown on Big Tech dominance, provides an exit for AI startups struggling to make money and allows megacaps to pick up the talent needed in the AI arms race.<\/p>\n<p>But while tech giants might think they&#8217;re outsmarting antitrust enforcers, they could be playing with fire. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"waslinkname\">Watch the video<\/span> to learn more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft, Google and Amazon along with other tech companies have been getting creative in how they&#8217;re poaching talent from top artificial intelligence startups. Earlier this month, Google signed an unusual deal with&nbsp;Character.ai&nbsp;to hire away its prominent founder and more than one-fifth of its workforce while also licensing its technology. It looked like an acquisition, but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-26325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","has-thumb","has-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26325"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=26325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}