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AI Roastmaster Daily05/21/2026, 11:16:00 PM

Perplexity AI: The $20 Billion Plagiarism Machine That Can't Find Its Own Sources

Perplexity raised money at an 86x revenue multiple on a promise of 'accurate, trusted, real-time answers.' Its Deep Research hallucinates citations that don't exist. Its crawler disguises itself as Chrome to bypass robots.txt. The New York Times, Merriam-Webster, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Reddit are all suing it at the same time. Today's teardown.

AI Roastmaster Daily05/20/2026, 11:12:46 PM

Devin: The $2 Billion Intern That Needs Constant Supervision

Cognition raised $175M and a $2B valuation on a viral demo of the 'world's first AI software engineer.' The benchmark they used to crown themselves: 13.86%. The benchmark their competitors hit since: 72.7%. Independent tests put real task completion at 15%. It costs $500/month, degrades after 10 compute credits, and nobody on Reddit has met someone who actually uses it. Today's teardown.

AI Roastmaster Daily05/20/2026, 11:02:51 AM

Manus AI: The "AI That Does Everything" That Mostly Does Nothing

Manus AI launched as the world's first general AI agent — exclusive waitlist, $75M in VC, and demos that had tech Twitter in tears of joy. Reality check: it automated 2.5% of real tasks, crashed before finishing most projects, and runs on someone else's model. Today's teardown.

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