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Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

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Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

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Post by geraneum »

brettgriffin wrote: post #187
BowBun wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's telling that the measure of quality of life you use in this comment is entirely materialistic in nature. I also challenge the idea that US provides 'access to better medical care', as it is pretty well documented that Americans spend more for lower quality care compared to similar developed countries. I believe this cultural divide is a big reason America won't make it back to the top - insatiable desire for wea…

> I believe this cultural divide is a big reason America won't make it back to the top What top are you referring to? We're in a thread about a US company announcing its new $30B fundraise from a group of elite US growth investment funds arguing about whether this company will be able to overthrow the $4T US tech behemoth and suggesting that all the other US tech behemoths are actually stifling progress.

Seems like you’re in a thread about people’s quality of life and talking about giant mega corps’ big money. Has it been trickling down yet?

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Post by MattGrommes »

pragmatic wrote: post #224
twobitshifter wrote: post #195

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As someone who thought Google+ doomed facebook, because of Gmail accounts and everyone with Google as their homepage already, I learned not to overestimate Google’s abilities.

How in the world would you have thought that? Genuinely curious. It was obviously DOA and waaaayyy outside G'scompetence.

Everything was obviously DOA after it dies. I also thought it wouldn't last but it wouldn't be the first or last tech company initiative that lived on long after people thought it would die. Weird things happen. "Obviously" isn't a good filter.

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Post by Mashimo »

impulser_ wrote: post #173
reenorap wrote: post #51

How is Anthropic, OpenAI and xAi going to compete against the likes of Google that can spend $200 billion a year? It’s an impossible war and all these investors are throwing their money into a bottomless insatiable pit of money. Until the funding stops for one reason or another and then everyone loses all their money at once like a star that collapses into a black hole singularity in a femtosecond.

Because it's Google they can't build products and they only care about benchmarking. The product they released so far are all half assed experiments. Gemini 3 Pro is now being beaten by open source models because they can't fix or don't want to fix the problems with the Gemini models being completely useless. The same for Microsoft. Microsoft had GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft Copilot and both of them are useless to C…

I really like github copilot.

I also tried open code cli and desktop, but how well copilot is integrated into the ide is a plus for me.

What makes them "useless garbage"?

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Post by deadeye »

reenorap wrote: post #51

How is Anthropic, OpenAI and xAi going to compete against the likes of Google that can spend $200 billion a year? It’s an impossible war and all these investors are throwing their money into a bottomless insatiable pit of money. Until the funding stops for one reason or another and then everyone loses all their money at once like a star that collapses into a black hole singularity in a femtosecond.

Google also has the most to lose.

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Post by hobofan »

volkk wrote: post #167
kccqzy wrote: post #165

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That doesn’t make sense at all. The raison d’être of SEC is to protect regular mom-and-pop investors. A private company just doesn’t allow anyone to invest in them. Why should SEC rules apply? On what legal basis can you force a private company to divulge its financial details? Would you be happy if you, as an individual, have to divulge your account statements if your own net wealth reaches one million?

yeah it's a slippery slope forcing companies to go public at X valuation. who decides that? what number makes sense? etc. but i do think we need to somehow fix massively overpriced companies going public and dumping on retail

Nobody said anything about forcing them to go public, just to force them to adhere to reporting regulations.

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Post by bojan »

WarmWash wrote: post #220
kgabis wrote: post #186

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I wonder what makes EU so wealthy to just buy stuff everywhere - maybe it's the export of high-end technologies inaccessible to US and China?

The EU is no way share or form in a good economic position right now. That's why euro leaders have been kowtowing to Trump despite him being a deranged lunatic. Delete all American software, American defense, American energy, and Chinese hardware from the EU tomorrow. That's the deep-seated unease that keeps EU leaders up at night. Europe needs to be doing 3-4% GDP growth annually and have a globally competitive top…

The EU and the UK took over aiding Ukraine almost completely in 2025 [1]. So not as unthinkable as you'd think.

> That's why euro leaders have been kowtowing to Trump despite him being a deranged lunatic.

Less to do with economy, more with security. Europe still needs a credible deterrent against Russia, and the US is still its best bet.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fl...

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Post by akersten »

pragmatic wrote: post #224
twobitshifter wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who thought Google+ doomed facebook, because of Gmail accounts and everyone with Google as their homepage already, I learned not to overestimate Google’s abilities.

How in the world would you have thought that? Genuinely curious. It was obviously DOA and waaaayyy outside G'scompetence.

So is Gemini tbh. It's the only agent I've used that gets itself stuck in ridiculous loops repeating "ok. I'm done. I'm ready to commit the changes. There are no bugs. I'm done."

Google somehow manages to fumble the easiest layups. I think Anthropic et al have a real chance here.

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Post by jeffbee »

jiggawatts wrote: post #155
jeffbee wrote: post #149

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This doesn't sound right. I just opened a shared link in a fresh incognito window and it works fine.

Try sharing from the Google AI Studio Playground. E.g.: https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%...

OK. I think you moved the goalposts a fair distance there.
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