Can't edit my comment anymore but Bun posted a pretty detailed explanation of their motivation here: https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic
Sounds like "monetizing Bun is a distraction, so we're letting a deep-pocketed buyer finance Bun moving forward".
Isn’t Anthropic itself also burning investors money? I thought no AI company is making any profit.
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I don't really know any details about this acquisition, and I assume it's the former, but acquihires are also done for other reasons than "it was the only way".