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Zero to $100M ARR in 8 months.
Acquired by Meta today.
Huge congrats to @Red_Xiao_, @hidecloud, and the entire @ManusAI team.
I’ve personally helped oversee 122 events in 2025, but this one stuck out as my favorite.
It was the day of our first event together.
At 9:00 AM, OpenAI dropped “Agent Mode."
Our event was at 5:00 PM.
Every other startup would have been frozen like a deer in the headlights. The largest player in the AI space just dropped a feature that could make your startup obsolete.
The @AICollectiveCo + @ManusAI team hopped on a call immediately.
We pitched a narrative shift: "The Battle of the Agents."
They didn’t hide from the news.
They put it on the big screen.
Manus showcased a LIVE demo of their agents vs. OpenAI’s release on stage that night.
And the Manus agent won.
Fast forward, and they achieved $100M ARR quicker than any startup in history.
That level of fearlessness is exactly why they won.
This was almost as fun as the first time we worked on their original product launch, but that’s a story for a different day. ;)
Huge kudos to the team on this massive milestone!
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💰 @Meta just lined up to $95B in equity for the AI buildout.
CNBC tallies underwritten offerings plus a planned at-the-market program as up to $95 billion to fund AI infrastructure and "personal superintelligence."
- Near-term: 250M Series A depositary shares (mandatory convertible preferred) plus $22.5B of Class A common via forward sales; CNBC frames the initial underwritten raise around $35B
- Later: an ATM for up to $60B of Class C, not expected until Class C trading in 1Q 2027
- NVIDIA, AMD and Broadcom indicated non-binding interest in up to an aggregate $5.0B of the Class A common; Meta guided full-year capex to $135B–$145B
Same day as Microsoft's voluntary exit offer, another hyperscaler is tapping public markets at AI-factory scale.
Stress-test your 2027 inference budget against buyers who are also raising tens of billions in fresh equity.
Carlo Edoardo Ferraris (@carloAI) of Natura Umana and Apheth D Almeida of Lucen Robotics join us live today at 9:45 and 10:10 AM PT.
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Which of these are you testing first?
🧵: Here are the events happening at @AICollectiveCo today and this week around the world
9 events. 6 time zones. 1 week 🌍👇
🚀 Halifax gets an AI demo night
On Thursday at 5:30 PM AT (1:30 PM PT) at 1800 Argyle St, AI After Hours: Demo Night lets local builders show what they made.
- Three to five Haligonians get a few minutes each to show the thing, say who it helps, then make one clear ask
- Asks can be testers, first users, honest feedback or an intro
- Hosted with Tribe Network for Halifax's builders, thinkers, doers and AI-curious
Show the thing, tell us who it helps, then make one ask 👉 luma.com/aic-ha-demonight
Find an AI Collective event near you 👇
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Which city should we feature next?
🇵🇱 Wrocław asks whether humans are losing their edge to AI
On Wednesday at 5 PM CET (9 AM PT), The AI Collective Poland hosts AI-Human Synergy at the University of Economics library.
- Three angles: the skills we delegate to AI, risk and responsibility, and who makes the decisions
- Talks from Tomasz Krawczyk of the University of Economics in Wrocław and Konrad Dżbik, Head of AI at CSHARK, then an interactive workshop
- Held fully in Polish, with registration required and limited capacity
How do we work with AI so we get better, not just faster 👉 luma.com/aic-po-10-28
🍷 Fayetteville runs AI like a tasting, not a lecture
On Wednesday from 6 to 8 PM ET (3 to 5 PM PT) at Revival Wine, AI Collective Fayetteville hosts the monthly AI Tasting Room.
- The Flight: one question, three unlabeled AI answers on the wall, then the room votes before the reveal
- The Fix: build the one thing that prevents the problem the Flight just exposed, live on your own screen
- Palate cleanser, a corked-bottle teardown of flawed AI work, then house pour and reserve shelf for deeper builds
No tricks, just what AI can actually do for you 👉 luma.com/aic-fa-10-28
dario as soon as the S-1 hits
Anthropic has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC related to its proposed IPO.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/s1-sec
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