# 首个"18亿美元""AI公司"的幕后故事

- 来源：Gary Marcus：The Road to AI We Can Trust（RSS）
- 作者：Gary Marcus
- 发布时间：2026-04-06 00:37
- AIHOT 链接：https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cmnxjn4xh003nsl9oe1glvn53
- 原文链接：https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-back-story-behind-the-first-18

## AI 摘要

由于提供的正文内容仅包含不完整片段（"AI isn't the only thing behind Medvi"），缺乏关键信息点（如公司具体业务、融资细节、技术突破或财务指标等），无法撰写符合要求的100-200字摘要。请提供完整正文以便提取核心事实与数据。

## 正文

On Thursday, The New York Times published a thing

and it went viral, declared as a victory for AI:

But there’s a lot more to be said that was only scarcely touched on in the article.

Like this

And this

And this brutal, compelling dissection on YouTube

which it itself built on and extending an earlier (May 2025) dissection from Futurism that The New York Times should have read and addressed in far more detail:

A friend of mine who has been tracking this for a while had sees Medvi as “a fraud-layer on top of also-scammy-but-possibly-less-illegal platforms”, speculating that “If there is any money there, they will be sued by all their suppliers and vendors, because I’m sure they’re in violation of every agreement in terms of compliance efforts, safe data handling, etc.” (The friend also is doubtful of the revenue reports, asking “why would this be the only thing they’re telling the truth about?”)

All in all, glorifying Medvi was not The New York Times’ finest hour.

And hardly the poster child AI boosters should be hoping for. Instead, as the YouTube video author, Voidzilla, notes, if anything Medvi is a warning sign — for how AI can be abused.

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