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Anthropic is hiring lawyers preparing for an IPO. They just signed a $200 million deal with Snowflake and a lot of other exciting AI news around Anthropic that we're going to be covering on the show today.

I'm your host Jaden Schaefer. Thanks so much for joining us today. Really excited to get into this. I'm coming off of a one week break I took in Hawaii over Thanksgiving and I'm happy to be back on

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They've hired Wilson Sonisi to help kick off the process. And they're also doing a whole bunch of

internal checklist to basically prepare for what could be one of the largest IPOs ever. Now,

opening I is probably going to come out and do their IPO and then they'll top Anthropic at whatever

point they do that because they have a lot more users. But this is kind of interesting and exciting and it feels like the first step. I think Anthropic, it's in their best interest to try to front run and do the first IPO. But I think Open AI probably wants Anthropic to go first as well because they want to see how it goes,

and then they can decide, you know,

what they would like to do next.

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