20VC: Anthropic Unveils Mythos | SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TRN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race | Jason's Critique of Dario Amodei & How OpenAI Could Win the Enterprise Game
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
AGENDA:
00:00 — Anthropic Unveils Mythos: The Model "Too Good at Hacking" to Release
05:56 — Why Mythos is a Quantum Leap in Cyber Risk
10:11 — The "Boy Who Cried Wolf": Jason's Critique of Dario Amodei
14:00 — The Oppenheimer Moment: Are Founders Using Doom as a Marketing Tool?
19:22 — Amazon's $20B Secret: Is NVIDIA's Chip Stranglehold Finally Loosening?
22:28 — Claude vs. Lovable & Replit: Anthropic Moves into App Building
25:24 — The 60% Death Spiral: Why Public SaaS Stocks are Entering a Doom Loop
39:51 — Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Alex Wang's First Model from Super Intelligence Labs
44:18 — OpenAI's $50B Ad Vision: The Plan to Monetize Intelligence
53:50 — Token Maxing: How CIOs are Reclaiming Control Over AI Budgets
57:57 — SpaceX's Leaked Financials: The Math Behind the $2 Trillion IPO
1:08:00 — Thoma Bravo Shuts Growth Equity
1:16:18 — Who IPOs First; OpenAI or Anthropic?
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| 0:00.0 | I don't buy Dario anymore. |
| 0:01.4 | So I'm pretty bullish, actually, on OpenA. |
| 0:03.8 | and the enterprise. |
| 0:04.5 | I think it's a two-way fight, and Tropic has the advantage of clarity and focus. |
| 0:09.1 | Open AI has the advantage of the consumer business. |
| 0:11.7 | If your agents are only 60% as good, you're in a slow death spiral. |
| 0:15.9 | It appears to be the most expensive IPO at scale of all time. |
| 0:19.2 | The Elon discount rate is zero, and the Elon probability of failure rate is zero to get |
| 0:24.6 | the $2 trillion. |
| 0:25.3 | I can't open the straight of Hormuz myself. |
| 0:27.9 | I can't do this like enough already. |
| 0:29.3 | Let me just use my tokens. |
| 0:31.3 | This is 20 VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and it's my favorite show of the week, Roryo Driscoll, Jason |
| 0:36.5 | Lemkin, analyzing the biggest news in tech this week. |
| 0:40.1 | Anthropic unveils mythos, but withholds it from public release because it's too good at hacking. |
| 0:46.7 | Public software stocks tumble to new lows with city saying, there really is no flaw. |
| 0:52.8 | Optimistic. And then finally, meta- debuts Mews Spark. It's Alex |
| 0:56.9 | Wang's first model from Meta's superintelligence labs. Does it save Meta in the race to catch up? |
| 1:04.1 | But before we dive into the show today, are you a founder working nonstop to raise your next round? |
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