Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the show, I want to talk about

opening eye fighting back against the giant onslaught of features Anthropic has been pushing some

negative PR Anthropic has been getting, but at the same time, an incredible new tool called

Claude Design that just came out. I also want to talk about where some VC dollars are going in the AI space,

some surprisingly interesting things there, and a new term called token maxing. In addition,

opening I just massively beefed up codex for desktop control, memory, and in-app browser,

and over 100 plugin integrations. Basically, this is them swinging directly

at Anthropics Claude Code and Claude Co-work. And I think it matters a lot for where editing agents is going in the future. So let's get into it. Before we do, I wanted to mention AI Box. The thing I keep hearing from people is that they're paying for chat, GPT, Claude, Gemini, perplexity, even mid-journey.

And by the time you get all of that added up, you're likely $70 or $80 a month across a bunch of different logins. AIBox gives you access to over 80 different AI models in one interface. All of this is just $8.99 a month. If you want to get access to it, there's a link in the description to AIbox.AI. And in addition, we have something called the AI Box builder, where you can essentially link together multiple AI models. We build it the entire workflow for you and you vibe by build tools without needing to know any code at all. I'm not a developer. I built this for other people that are not developers. So if you want to check it out, there's a link in the description to AIbox.com.

Okay, the first thing I want to talk about is a company called Factory.

So this is an AI coding startup.

They're focused specifically on enterprise engineering teams. They just closed $150 million Series A at a $1.5 billion valuation.

Kosla Ventures led the round, Sequoia Insight Partners, and Blackstone all were participating

in this.

The founder is named Mattin Grinberg.

He was a physics PhD student at Berkeley.

He basically cold emailed Sequoia partner Sean McGuire in 2023, and they apparently

were good friends. They bonded over physics research. McGuire in 2023, and they apparently were good friends.

They bonded over physics research.

McGuire convinced him to drop out, and Sequoia seated the company.

Their customer list already included Morgan Stanley, Ernst & Young, and Palo Alto

networks.

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