Big Tech’s $3T AI Bet, Claude Writes 90% of Anthropic’s Code, AIs Editing AI Brains | EP #308
Peter Diamandis, Dave Blundin, Salim Ismail and Alexander Wissner-Gross discuss Big Tech's $3 trillion AI spending, new AI job benchmarks, Claude writing most of Anthropic's code, AIs editing model weights, a freezer hack, and moon plans.
The gist
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Alex argues for more local decision-making and opt-in lifestyle zones, and Peter recommends Neal Stephenson's novel Diamond Age, which imagines such choices.
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Peter notes five tech giants have committed over $3 trillion to AI buildout, about 10 Apollo programs, while lenders now demand tougher terms.
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On the new GDPX benchmark the best model scored only 12%, and Alex urges people to build benchmarks for causes they care about.
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Anthropic's IPO filing says Claude wrote over 90% of September's code, and internal Claude usage, up 250-fold, now exceeds monthly cash payroll.
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Peter says sleep, diet, exercise and mindset are the cheap basics for longevity, and that Sinclair estimates his SL100 will cost about $200 a month.
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