The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps to talk shows, a certain shoe company just rebranded as an AI infrastructure play, and Anthropic unveiled a model it says is too powerful to release publicly ...but apparently not too powerful to demo to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
On this episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O'Kane dig into what's actually being built in AI infrastructure, who's winning the enterprise battle between OpenAI and Anthropic, and more of the week's headlines.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:25 Allbirds is now an AI company, apparently
04:48 Why chipmakers are betting on Wayve
12:01 Fluidstack wants $1B to build AI data centers
16:24 OpenAI buys a finance app and a talk show
21:27 Anthropic vs. OpenAI in enterprise
24:15 The Anthropic model they won't release to the public
26:47 Why AI feels so distant to everyone else
30:47 What even is tokenmaxxing?
34:49 Parasail's $32M bet on cheaper AI inference
36:39 Outro
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