Snap is carving out another piece of its business. The Snapchat maker is spinning off an internal AI video team into a standalone company called Dotmo, with current Snap employees leaving to staff the new venture and focus exclusively on AI-powered video development.
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In January 2026, Snap separated its augmented reality glasses initiative into a standalone entity called Specs Inc. That project had consumed roughly $3 billion in investment over approximately 11 years. By making it independent, Snap could attract outside capital to fund the AR glasses effort without continuing to drain resources from Snapchat’s advertising-driven core business.
In November 2025, Snap announced a $400 million partnership with Perplexity AI, the conversational search startup. That deal is designed to embed advanced conversational search capabilities directly into Snapchat, which serves around 1 billion monthly active users.
