AI Proxy War: Google Invests $2B in Anthropic

What if abundant intelligence makes human ambition expand rather than human relevance disappear? NLW explores Venkatesh Rao’s “Cognitive Mercantilism,” which uses the history of capitalism to challenge assumptions about AI and our intellectual future. From the agricultural revolu ...  Show more

Spawn’s ten-person team shipped 77,000 code changes in a month with an always-on fleet of AI agents. NLW breaks down the systems behind that output, why human taste and ambition still matter, and five practical lessons other businesses can apply. In the headlines: legal AI startu ...  Show more

Episode 155: Neal and Toby break down the biggest AI news at the top of the show, including; ChatGPT developing the ability to speak and analyze images, Amazon investing $4 billion into Anthropic and Spotify using OpenAI to release podcasts in alternate languages. Plus, how much ...  Show more

This week, Google found itself in more turmoil, this time over its new AI Overviews feature and a trove of leaked internal documents. Then Josh Batson, a researcher at the A.I. startup Anthropic, joins us to explain how an experiment that made the chatbot Claude obsessed with ...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In this episode, we delve into the story of Anthropic, a formidable $4.1B rival to OpenAI, and their launch of "Claude 2", a model outpacing ChatGPT-4. We'll discuss what this ...  Show more