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Acqui-hires are faster, easier and cheaper. You ditch liabilities, cap table issues and tech debt, while cherry-picking talent. If the target company has value in talent and domain expertise, and not so much in the product/IP, an acqui-hire is the move. This isn’t an

You might wonder why so much energy is going to blaming this acqui-hire behavior on antitrust, while… - The trend seems specific to AI, which is a highly competitive sector and not a likely target for antitrust. - It mirrors the frothy acqui-hire activity in the dotcom era,

Not all AI deals are acquihires, but all acquihire deals are AI: Within → Meta (Acquisition) - Feb 2023 Scale AI → Meta (Acquihire) – Jun 2025 Play AI → Meta (Acquisition) - Jul 2025 OmniML → NVIDIA (Acquisition) - Feb 2023 Deci AI → NVIDIA (Acquisition) – Apr 2024