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

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Post by EQmWgw87pw »

asdff wrote: post #359
sousousou wrote: post #150

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Sometimes I worry about the incentives for innovation in the US. Step 1, find something to innovate on, sell the promise of it to investors. Step 2, build a prototype or worst case, build it for real and start generating income from your truly innovate and unique product. Step 3, get acquired by a large company and then shut down because your product competed with theirs. End result, general public possibly benefited…

This is what I struggled with after grad school. You have so many decent ideas. So many people you know in the domain also with their own good ideas. Everyone looking for their next gig. It could all be so easy to get a couple people together and start building. But, alas, money, that must come from people who expect more money back before long, which severely limits the scope of ideas that will get investor funding.…

Do you think most YC companies make money?

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Post by shakow »

vineyardmike wrote: post #307
shakow wrote: post #209

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> more food Yeah, so I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but as a European who visited the US, your food is definitely not something I would use as an example of your QoL.

You went to the wrong parts and ate the wrong things. I used to live in Paris for a spell and the food here in San Francisco is better. California has some of the freshest and best local produce in the world. If you eat at real restaurants (not McD), and intentionally buy fresh food (which is available at normal grocery stores too) then you're getting great quality food. I think there is much better access to a varie…

> San Francisco is better

Yeah, but you're a tramp if you're not making >$250k/year. Of course wealthy people will have access to excellent food, and that will be true everywhere from Moscow to SF through Shanghai. I'm more interested in what the common plebes can get their hands on.

> and the variety of cuisines at restaurants is laughably incomparable

Might be; I only went to Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Florida, so YMMV. But in my experience, sure, there are a lot of cuisines, but frankly, save for the Mexicans, all of them sucked hard: very salty, very sugary, very spicy, but .

Now I'm sure you can get excellent local fruits/vegetables in California thanks to the climate, but I doubt they would be notably worse or better than anything you will find around the Mediterranean.

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Post by techblueberry »

WheatMillington wrote: post #293
jrjeksjd8d wrote: post #119

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Matt Levine has put this forward in his newsletter - if you're moderately influential you can go on TV and tell people that "X industry will be dead in 10 years" because of AI and then profit from the inevitable stock dip. Because we live in the worst possible timeline the end result for AI companies does seem to be "too big to fail", where these massive investments will get foisted on working class people via a bail…

I don't see why any AI company would ever be "too big to fail". I can't see why any government would be motivated to take the political hit of bailing them out.

What if the head of that government was a lame duck president, and those AI companies personally funded his next yacht.

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Post by ch_sm »

llbbdd wrote: post #402
twobitshifter wrote: post #301

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1. Google had recently exploited their home page to push chrome browser successfully altering the browser market. They pushed anyone visiting Google to chrome with a popup on the home page. The same opportunity was there for G+, but with updates from friends. 2. Everyone already had a Google account and many millennials were using Google Talk at the time. It appeared Google could undermine the network effects. 3. The…

Google definitely benefited from being able to push Chrome on the homepage, but it was also a bit of a layup given every other browser completely sucked at the time. Chrome said that browsing the Internet didn't have to be slow and caught MS+Mozilla with their pants down. Safari is still working on pulling theirs back up.

> Safari is still working on pulling theirs back up.

not sure about this take, given that chrome‘s rendering engine was famously based on Safari‘s - WebKit - before they forked it (Blink). V8 was indeed faster than Safari‘s JS engine at the time. However, today, Safari is objectively faster in both rendering (WK) and JS performance (JSCore).

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Post by viking123 »

QuantumGood wrote: post #281
akersten wrote: post #239

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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.

Hard to bet against Hassabis + Google's resources. This is in their wheelhouse, and it's eating their search business and refactoring their cloud business. G+ seemed like a way to get more people to Google for login and tracking.

Hassabis is not a grifter like Amodei, Google certainly has that going for them.

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Post by bfrog »

It’s the taxi app wars all over. Yes Claude is great. But how many people are going pay once the subsidies are over?

Like uber I believe current pricing is heavily subsidized by capital investment. The investors likely believe the bot with the users is a winner.

The real winner will be the good enough bot with customer hardware and scale to run it cheaply. There’s exactly one current contender as far as I know with both.

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Post by viking123 »

MagicMoonlight wrote: post #104
buccal wrote: post #76

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I'm trying paid tier Gemini and it doesn't allow to keep have personal chat history when you disable training on your data, on reload of the page your chat is gone. Even free tier of ChatGPT allows disabling training on your data while allowing to keep such basic functionality. Some technical advancements are not worth it if you do not respect your users.

Yeah I’m never using a Google product. The sole purpose of their company is to be evil. At least other companies are indifferent.

I hate Google but I hate Anthropic way more.

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Post by viking123 »

rvnx wrote: post #213
lostmsu wrote: post #208

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The same can be said about Claude (no or tiny Opus on Pro) vs GPT-5.2 high (5.3-codex if you like terminal bench hacking).

You mean GPT-5.3-Codex is a much better value than Claude Opus for programming ? If yes then I'm very interested as I am using Claude there

GPT 5.3 is much better than Claude and frankly much cheaper. OpenAI is also much less ghoulish company.

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Post by viking123 »

strawhatguy wrote: post #413
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.

All I know is that claude code is pretty dang good, grok's nice for searching info, and Google's Gemini hasn't really been in my workflow at all. Neither chatgpt, beyond when it first came out. Maybe I'm odd, but a Google search is even rare (usually use duck duck go) so I don't know, Google may have problems on it's hands. Possible anyway.

Grok is nice because it is not censored like all the other cuck models.

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Post by viking123 »

infecto wrote: post #383
sobkas wrote: post #124

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Just because something is in do-or-die situation doesn't mean that they have some kind of magical advantage over fat cat. Being in that situation means there is very real possibility of doing "die" part and we have lots of examples of them doing so.

But what does a fraudulent company have to do with a company that’s generating a run rate of $14b?

I mean Amodei is basically slightly higher than a fraudster.
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