Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating — With Mike Krieger

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Alex Kantrowitz

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Mike Krieger is the chief product officer at Anthropic and co-founder of Instagram. Krieger joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss Anthropic's Sonnet 4.5 launch and how the company's been able to speed up AI model development. Tune in to hear how Anthropic is using internal tools to move fast, where the next generations of model improvements will look like, and whether model orchestration will be the core differentiator between labs. We also cover how AI development compares to social media, whether AI content will ever take off, and enterprise AI's path ahead. --- Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Anthropic product head Mike Krieger joins us to talk about how AI model development is accelerating
0:06.0	and what we should look out for as things continue to move faster.
0:10.0	That's coming up right after this.
0:12.0	Capital One's tech team isn't just talking about multi-agentic AI.
0:16.0	They already deployed one.
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0:22.6	Using self-reflection and layered reasoning with live API checks,
0:26.6	it doesn't just help buyers find a car they love.
0:30.6	It helps schedule a test drive, get pre-approved for financing,
0:34.6	and estimate trade and value.
0:36.6	Advanced, intuitive, and deployed.
0:39.9	That's how they stack.
0:41.2	That's technology at Capital One.
0:43.9	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed and nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:50.5	Well, Anthropic has a new model out, Sonnet 4.5, just months after the series of Claude 4 models came out.
0:59.0	So things are moving fast, and we're going to figure out why they're moving much faster
1:03.0	and what the implications are for the AI industry and businesses as a whole.
1:08.8	And we're joined today by the perfect guest to do it. Anthropic
1:11.9	product head, Mike Krieger, is here with us. Mike, it's good to see you again. Welcome to the show.
1:16.0	It's good to be here. Thanks, Alex. So I remember sitting in the audience for Anthropics first
1:22.2	developer day. And it's funny because in the AI world, you sort of, you go in, what is it, cat ears or dog years?
1:29.5	I don't even know.
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