It’s not FAANG anymore. It’s MANGOS.

In Brief

With SpaceX astir to interruption records with an IPO connected Friday, Anthropic astir to interruption records with its pending IPO, and OpenAI racing to lucifer oregon champion its archrivals with its ain perchance record-breaking IPO, the tech manufacture volition soon person a caller acceptable of nationalist institution overlords.

Should each these IPOs instrumentality spot arsenic planned, these companies volition beryllium replacing the vicious-sounding FAANG cabal — Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google (now Alphabet) — with the delightfully sweet-sounding (though genuinely sour and atrocious if consumed unripe) coterie MANGOS: Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, SpaceX.

As these companies go, truthful shall the full tech industry, oregon truthful it’s looking similar from the summertime of 2026.

The caller acronym was projected by developer @krishdotdev and @lilscoot connected X and is present going viral.

Of course, FAANG is not precisely dormant — Amazon and Netflix stay almighty — but streaming services and Amazon’s e-commerce business, if not its cloud, are possibly little groundbreaking these days than the AI and agentic companies the tech manufacture is astir to crown.

To that we say: farewell to FAANG! Long unrecorded the MANGOS!

(At slightest if they beryllium to beryllium a nourishing instauration of a steadfast system powered by an upcoming autonomous AI age, and don’t usher successful an unpalatable aboriginal wherever we each upwind up jobless and broke.)

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