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Meta’s $5B Metaverse Gamble!
while Lithuania’s startup scene skyrockets—who’s making the smarter bet?
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What we’ll cover today:
💰 Lithuania’s insane 39x startup growth—what’s fueling it?
👀 Meta’s Reality Labs just lost $5B—smart move or money pit?
💡 Hot takes from top SaaS leaders on where industry is headed next.
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Lithuania’s startup scene exploded, growing 39x in 10 years. Big names like Vinted and Nord Security led the charge.
🚨 Breaking News: Lithuania is pouring millions into AI (€38.8M), circular economy (€20M), and deep tech (€15.2M), making it a European tech hub.
⚡ Wire Simplified:
Lithuania’s startup ecosystem grew 39x in a decade.
AI, green tech, and deep tech are major investment areas.
Vinted and Nord Security are big success stories.
Government-backed programs fueled the growth.
Cybersecurity and biotech are Lithuania’s next big bets.
✔️ Straight to the Point:
Lithuania is proving that smart investments and government support can turn a small country into a tech giant.
Will Lithuania’s tech rise continue? |
Meta lost $5 billion in Q4 on its metaverse division, Reality Labs, despite strong profits elsewhere.
🚨 Breaking News: Reality Labs is bleeding cash, but Meta isn’t backing down, doubling down on AI and data center investments.
⚡ Wire Simplified:
Meta’s Reality Labs lost $5B in Q4.
Overall company profits are still strong.
AI and data centers are now Meta’s priority.
Investors are split on Meta’s long-term bets.
Zuckerberg says the vision is worth the cost.
✔️ Straight to the Point:
Meta is burning billions on the metaverse, but with AI in focus, will it be a genius move or a money pit?
DeepSeek is legitimately impressive, but the level of hysteria is an indictment of so many.
The $5M number is bogus. It is pushed by a Chinese hedge fund to slow investment in American AI startups, service their own shorts against American titans like Nvidia, and hide sanction evasion. America is a fertile bed for psyops like this because our media apparatus hates our technology companies and wants to see President Trump fail.
We have so many useful idiots uncritically reporting Chinese propaganda as fact because on some level, they want it to be true. They love seeing hundreds of billions of dollars wiped off the market cap off our largest companies.
You can run a quantized version of the full version of DeepSeek on just 2 H100s and get 140tok/s
For the ~$2/hr rate of an H100, that’s $4 for 504k tokens or ~$8/M tokens which is ~90% cheaper than o1.
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