Anthropic seeking $5B valuation, OpenAI hires 1000 contractors, Mr. Beast’s latest video | E1668
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Jason and Molly kick off the week with a generative ai update! (5:00) Then, they cover Mr. Beast’s latest video and “stunt culture” (35:21), some more third-rail topics (49:40), and Billy McFarland being back in the news! (59:50)
(0:00) M+J kick off the show
(2:10) Apply to Founder University 2-Day Workshop at https://intensive.founder.university/
(5:00) Anthropic raises at a $5B valuation
(9:31) LinkedIn Jobs - Post your first job for free at https://linkedin.com/twist
(11:01) More on Anthropic
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(19:21) Semafor reports OpenAI has contracted 1000 developers
(27:06) Baidu is developing their own AI Chatbot
(33:53) CAST AI - get a FREE cloud cost audit AND a personal consultation at cast.ai/twist
(35:21) MrBeast’s latest video + Stunt culture
(49:40) Third-rail topics
(59:50) Billy McFarland is back in the news
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, we've got a great show for you today. |
| 0:02.4 | Happy Monday. |
| 0:03.3 | We are, we're taking all the rest day. |
| 0:05.3 | We're calling this third rail Monday. |
| 0:06.7 | You will see why. |
| 0:07.4 | But first we have another generative AI update for you |
| 0:11.4 | from over the weekend. |
| 0:12.8 | The bubble watch goes on. |
| 0:15.3 | Yeah, anthropic is raising $300 million |
| 0:18.6 | out of $5 billion valuation and a bunch of other AI startups |
| 0:22.3 | seem to be raising at huge, huge revenue numbers. |
| 0:26.4 | Big time. |
| 0:27.5 | As I believe I predicted, coding is in fact over. |
| 0:30.9 | Semaphore is reporting that OpenAI has hired 1,000 contractor |
| 0:34.6 | workers for data labeling and creating data for its AI |
| 0:38.4 | to learn how to code. |
| 0:39.4 | And then China's version of Google, |
| 0:41.2 | Baidu, is creating its own version of chat GPT. |
| 0:45.3 | What could go wrong? |
| 0:46.2 | Yeah, what could go wrong? |
| 0:47.1 | And then we have a conversation about Mr. B. Slade's video |
| 0:50.9 | where he cures people of blindness |
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