The $4 Trillion AI IPO Wave Is About to Break
Notes de l’épisode
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis open on the biggest week in AI yet: Anthropic closed a $65 billion round at a $965 billion valuation, passing OpenAI, right as OpenAI crossed 1 billion monthly users and SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI all line up to go public. They get into what a $4 trillion IPO wave means for the market, plus Claude Opus 4.8 and Anthropic's Mythos expansion.
Also in this episode: Google lets publishers opt out of AI search, Microsoft floods Build 2026 with seven new models and an always-on agent, Nvidia's RTX Spark aims to reinvent the PC, companies start rationing AI as costs explode, ElevenLabs ships emotion-preserving dubbing, plus math, robots, a Meta chatbot hack, MiniMax M3, and Trump's scaled-back AI order. Find every episode at aiinside.show.
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- 0:00 - Start
- 0:03:48 - Anthropic raises $65B Series H at a $965B valuation, overtaking OpenAI
- 0:15:50 - ChatGPT app hits 1 billion monthly active users in record time, data shows
- 0:17:09 - Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8, its most honest model yet
- 0:21:46 - Anthropic expands Mythos to 150 additional organizations in more than 15 countries
- 0:29:48 - Microsoft Build 2026 keynote: seven AI models, MAI-Thinking-1, Project Solara, and a Copilot super app
- 0:31:17 - Inside Microsoft’s Project Solara: A new platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps
- 0:40:54 - Nvidia announces the RTX Spark Arm chip at Computex 2026
- 0:47:05 - Amazon kills internal AI leaderboard after employees gamed it with pointless tasks
- 0:48:18 - Uber caps monthly employee AI spending at $1,500 per tool amid soaring costs
- 0:50:32 - ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, preserving emotion across 90+ languages
- 0:56:27 - AI startup Shift offers free NYC home cleaning to collect robot training data
- 0:59:31 - As A.I. Makes Strides in Mathematics, Mathematicians Urge Caution
- 1:01:00 - Hackers used Meta's AI support chatbot to hijack high-profile Instagram accounts
- 1:03:23 - China's MiniMax launches M3, rivaling Claude Opus 4.7 at $0.12 per million tokens
- 1:04:19 - Trump signs a scaled-back AI executive order
Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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