[andrewl-hn]

I’ll be honest, while I have my doubts about the match of interests and cohesion between an AI company and a JS runtime company I have to say this is the single best acquisition announcement blog post I’ve seen in 20 years or so.

Very direct, very plain and detailed. They cover all the bases about the why, the how, and what to expect. I really appreciate it.

Best of luck to the team and hopefully the new home will support them well.

[raw_anon_1111]

But how is another company that is also VC backed and losing money providing stability for Bun?

How long before we hear about “Our Amazing Journey”?

On the other hand, I would rather see someone like Bun have a successful exit where the founders seem to have started out with a passion project, got funding, built something out they were excited about and then exit than yet another AI company by non technical founders who were built with the sole purpose of getting funding and then exit.

[simonw]

Anthropic may be losing money, but a company with $7bn revenue run rate (https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-dario-amodei-americ...) is a whole lot healthier than a company with a revenue of 0.

[rvnx]

Often it happens that VCs buy out companies from funds belonging to a fresh because the selling fund wants to show performance to their investors until "the big one", or move cash one from wealthy pocket to another one.

"You buy me this, next time I save you on that", etc...

"Raised $19 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures + $7 million"

"Today, Bun makes $0 in revenue."

Everything is almost public domain (MIT) and can be forked without paying a single dollar.

Questionable to claim that the technology is the real reason this was bought.

[lacker]

The real risk is not that Anthropic will run out of money, but that they will change their strategy to something that isn't Bun-based, and supporting Bun won't make sense for them any more.

[nathan-wall]

> But how is another company that is also VC backed and losing money providing stability for Bun?

Reminds me of when Tron, the crypto company, bought BitTorrent.

[kelvinjps10]

I misread Amazon, implying that Amazon might buy Anthropic, and I think that's what will end up happening.

[moritzwarhier]

Ditto, and I got to know Bun via HN. It seemed intriguing, but also "why another JS runtime" etc.

If Bun embraces the sweet spot around edge computing, modern JS/TS and AI services, I think their future ahead looks bright.

Bun seems more alive than Deno, FWIW.

[laserbeam]

I admit, it is a good acquisition announcement. I can’t remember the last acquisition announcement that was kept for more than 1-2 years. Leadership changes, priorities shift…

[jjcm]

One thing I like about this, despite it meaning Bun will be funded, is Anthropic is a registered public benefit corporation. While this doesn't mean Anthropic cant fuck over the users of Bun, it at least puts in some roadblocks. The path of least-resistance here should be to improve Bun for users, not to monetize it to the point where it's no longer valuable.

[echelon]

> Anthropic is a registered public benefit corporation

Does that mean anything at all?

OpenAI is a public benefit corporation.

[juddlyon]

I had the same impression: bottom line up front, didn’t bury the lede, no weasel language.