Overview
- MTS, which launched Monday as a 24/7 livestream on X, is funded by Andreessen Horowitz with support from angel investors.
- The venture is led by Erik Torenberg and Brent Liang, with early contributors including Chris Bakke, Theo Jaffee, Gabriel Dickinson, Mark Halperin, and Steven Sinofsky, and it is recruiting more hosts, guests, and sponsors.
- Early streams show hosts reading posts and articles on air before reacting in real time, and the team is building an audience hub on Discord.
- Marc Andreessen frames the effort as fast sense-making in a chaotic news cycle, while critics mock it as venture pundits toggling between X, prediction markets, and Wikipedia.
- Reporters place the launch in a larger shift toward tech-funded, always-on news tied to prediction markets where people bet on events, citing booming platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi, OpenAI’s reported purchase of TBPN, and new efforts such as Objection.AI.