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”.

Tea@programming.dev · edit-2 17 days ago

MuskyMelon@lemmy.world · 17 days ago

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.

Squizzy@lemmy.world · 16 days ago

They can fuck a whole lot of shit up on the way there though

yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works · 16 days ago

Only for the us in this case. The us isn’t even the money maker for tiktok.