Kris says $500M offer followed his $70M AI.com buy; product rollout to begin for waitlisted users

Kris Marszalek just dropped a pretty wild claim. The Crypto.com CEO says he got offered $500 million for AI.com right after buying it for $70 million.

He shared this during an interview on TBPN yesterday, where he also mentioned the bidder was the same person he beat in the original auction. According to Marszalek, he could’ve pushed the price to $1 billion but turned it down because he’s committed to actually building something with the domain.

Here’s a clip of the interview that was posted on X:

BREAKING: After purchasing https://t.co/52aDd0GCeE for $70M, @kris says he was immediately offered $500M for the domain pic.twitter.com/fqHydjRx9N

— TBPN (@tbpn) February 10, 2026

Whether you believe that or not is another story. People on X certainly don’t. “I would bet $500 million that this is a lie,” one user wrote. Another pointed out the obvious: “Someone is willing to pay $500m but somehow lost it at auction for $70m ok got it”.

Meanwhile, Marszalek also announced that AI.com will start rolling out its actual product within 48 hours. There are apparently hundreds of thousands of people waiting in line, so they’re doing a staged rollout to avoid another infrastructure meltdown.

That’s a reference to what happened after the Super Bowl ad crashed AI.com almost instantly. The site got so much traffic it hit Google’s global rate limits. The ad itself was cryptic — glowing orbs merging together with text saying “AGI is coming soon” — and told people to grab handles like “ai.com/yourname.”

But here’s the problem: nobody really knows what they’re signing up for, plus they are being asked for credit card details upfront without any clear explanation of what the service actually does. 

One person on X said, “I signed up almost immediately when I saw your first post. Excited to see what you have built,” while others were less optimistic: “How can an app with a broken start, virtually zero product info, and a credit card gated sign up, have 100s of 1000s in the queue within a day?”.

What we know so far is that AI.com supposedly lets you create autonomous AI agents in under 60 seconds without coding. These agents can supposedly handle scheduling, travel booking, and even crypto trading. But with all the secrecy and the botched rollout, a lot of people think this is just an expensive domain name with nothing real behind it.

The staged rollout should start any moment now, so we’ll see if there’s actually a product worth the hype.

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