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Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public

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Re: Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public

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> In a statement, an Anthropic spokesperson said: “We have not made any decisions about when, or even whether, to go public.” They are going public.

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> the gap to GPT-4o, Gemini 2 ... is shrinking fast

Are you ... aware that OpenAI and Google have launched more recent models?

Re: Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public

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It's interesting that Amazon don't appear interested in acquiring Anthropic, which would have seemed like somewhat of a natural fit given that they are already partnered, Anthropic have apparently optimized (or at least adapted) for Trainium, and Amazon don't have their own frontier model. It seems that Amazon are playing this much like Microsoft - seeing themselves are more of a cloud provider, happy to serve anyone…

Amazon also uses Claude under the hood for their "Rufus" shopping search assistant which is all over amazon.com.

It's kind of funny, you can ask Rufus for stuff like "write a hello world in python for me" and then it will do it and also recommend some python books.

Re: Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public

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Okay, let’s see you guys get passed the inference costs disclosure. According to WSJ it is enough to kill the frontier shop business model. It’s one of the biggest things blocking OpenAI https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/big-techs-soaring-profits-have-a...

Do you mean as part of going public they need to make public how much they spend on inference versus how much they make?

Yes to IPO you have to submit an S-1 form which requires the last 3 years of your full financials and much more. You can’t just IPO without disclosing how your business works and whether it makes or loses money and how much.

Re: Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public

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> In a statement, an Anthropic spokesperson said: “We have not made any decisions about when, or even whether, to go public.” They are going public.

Well, they have to. Every grift needs bagholders.

If they get to be a memestock, they might even keep the grift going for a good while. See Tesla as a good example of this.

Re: Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> the gap to GPT-4o, Gemini 2 ... is shrinking fast Are you ... aware that OpenAI and Google have launched more recent models?

almost every single AI doomer i listen to hasnt updated any of their priors in the last 2 years. these people are completely unaware of what is actually happening at the frontier or how much progress has been made.

Re: Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public

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This seems contrary to their stated goal to prioritize AI safety. It is against the law to prioritize AI safety if you run a public company. You must prioritize profits for your shareholders.

Do you think they currently exist to prioritize AI safety? That shit won’t pay the bills, will it? Then they don’t exist. Goals are nice, OKRs yay, but at the end of the day, we all know the dollar drives everything.
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