Billionaire Investor: Why I'm Betting on Anthropic Over OpenAI

Joe Lonsdale · · 10 min

Investor Joe Lonsdale explains why he favors Anthropic over OpenAI and shares his bets on nuclear energy, healthcare automation, and AI-driven productivity gains.

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The gist

  1. Lonsdale says Anthropic has pulled ahead in coding and is growing faster than OpenAI, making it his second-largest conviction position after SpaceX.
  2. He sees a $2 trillion opportunity in U.S. services where AI is already delivering 2 to 3 times efficiency gains in areas like healthcare billing and logistics.

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1:05 SpaceX · "I'm most long SpaceX. Next I'm second most long Anthropic."
3:15 Palantir · "My best healthcare billing company with a bunch of ex-Palantir guys is going to double to over 100 million..."

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