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"About 55 hardware engineers, software developers, and manufacturing experts will join OpenAI as part of the acquisition". (for $6.5B)

So I think WhatsApp still holds the record for engineer/$B acquisition:

"WhatsApp had 32 engineers when it was bought for 19 billion dollars."

Even more if you correct for inflation.



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