Inside Anthropic's AI Ambitions with Jared Kaplan

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Instead of our usual Friday news rundown, we’re bringing you a conversation from this week’s TC Sessions: AI event out in San Francisco. Our friend and co-host Max Zeff sat down with Jared Kaplan, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at Anthropic. If you’ve been following Anthropic, you’ll know it’s been a busy year for the AI startup. Back in March, the company announced it raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion valuation in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Since then, it’s launched a blog for its Claude models and, according to Bloomberg reporting, partnered with Apple to power a new “vibe-coding” software platform. Listen to the full conversation to hear more about: ⁠Who has direct access to Claude’s AI models⁠, Windsurf’s response, and how it all ties into Anthropic’s broader goals around openness, safety, and sustainability. The company’s pivot away from chatbots and toward agentic AI systems that can perform real tasks. How internal tools like Claude Code are shaping the future of AI-powered development. What it means to build AI that enterprises can actually trust, and how that affects the way humans interact with software, work, and each other. Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe to us on⁠ Apple Podcasts⁠,⁠ Overcast⁠,⁠ Spotify⁠ and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on⁠ X⁠ and⁠ Threads⁠, at @EquityPod. Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. We’d also like to thank TechCrunch’s audience development team. Thank you so much for listening, and we'll talk to you next time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's flagship podcast about the business of startups.
0:18.6	I'm Kirsten Koresak, and we're going to mix things up a little bit.
0:22.2	Instead of our usual Friday news rundown, we're going to bring you a conversation from this
0:27.1	week's T.C. Sessions AI event out in San Francisco, which I am super bummed to be missing,
0:33.0	but luckily for us, Max, one of our co-hosts, is there in actually doing some of the interviews.
0:39.1	And specifically, in the one I'm most excited about, is this interview with Jared Kaplan,
0:43.7	co-founder and chief science officer at Anthropic. If you've been following Anthropic,
0:48.9	and you probably have been and you've definitely heard us talking about, you know it's been a
0:52.9	busy year for the AI startup.
0:54.9	Back in March, the company announced it raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion valuation,
1:01.9	so that's not small. But they've been doing more than raising money. They've launched a blog for
1:06.9	its Claude models. They partnered with Apple to power a new vibe coding software platform.
1:14.2	And most recently, Max also wrote about Windsurf that has said that Anthropic is limiting
1:21.0	its access to Claude AI models, which are super popular with developers.
1:26.5	So back to this interview.
1:28.5	Max spoke with Jared about how AI is reshaping the way humans interact with computers,
1:34.4	work, and each other.
1:36.1	But you can also expect some practical takeaways for businesses of all sizes looking to
1:41.2	integrate AI more effectively.
1:43.2	Let's take a listen.
1:46.8	We're going to get right into it.
1:49.0	So a couple weeks ago, Anthropic had your code with Claude event.
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