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AI Regulatory Capture Bet: Why OpenAI & Anthropic Stopped Competing on Tech

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AI Regulatory Capture Bet: Why OpenAI & Anthropic Stopped Competing on Tech

More or Less

20 HOURS AGO
More or Less

More or Less

20 HOURS AGO
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You know we're deep into summer when Jess leaves the pod early to catch Benson Boone... for the eighth time. This week, the More or Less squad revisits the Anthropic and OpenAI IPO speculation. Their views haven't changed, but their AI usage certainly ...

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The podcast dives into the shifting landscape of AI, where the hosts debate whether the model quality wars are over and if the real competition has moved to politics and narrative. They also explore the implications of new open-weights models, the hype around AI hardware, and the cultural trends shaping Silicon Valley.
07:24
Open-source models have caught up to frontier labs.
19:22
AI competition has become political rather than technological
24:15
Policy proposals are political gestures, not plans.
31:49
Valuations depend more on narrative than revenue.
48:33
Biological age tests are clout scores for the body.

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Is the AI Model War Over? The Shift from Quality to Cost
00:00
From Technology to Politics: Why AI Companies Are Now Lobbying
12:17
OpenAI's 'Alexa' and the $8 Billion Narrative Capitalism Play
24:15
Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: The Power of Story Over Revenue
29:26
Voice AI, Peptides, and the Clout Score of Your Body
38:40

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Sam Lessin: If the plan was, we America, we need to take our military and bomb every matrix multiplication facility globally, and we're going to have all of them, and then we're going to control AI, that would at least be logical. Dave Morin: One thing th...