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Anthropic made Opus dumber (73% Drop), Claude Code Hits $2.5B ARR & Tesla AI5 | God Mode Pod EP09
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Perplexity's Multi-Model Moat and IDE Future
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Luca predicts an Anthropic antitrust case within 1-2 years: subsidizing Claude Code for subscribers while charging competitors full API rates is the same playbook that triggered cases against Microsoft and Google. History shows companies usually navigate through — but the case will be made.
Three phases of AI value extraction: first Nvidia won, then the providers. Now everyone is asking — will the application layer also extract value? Ben argues providers still dominate because they can subsidize their own tools while application companies like Lovable pay full API rates to the same providers they compete with.
Perplexity doubled its ARR to $450M in a single month by being model-agnostic — routing to Claude for coding, ChatGPT for general tasks, Grok for real-time news. The CEO calls it 'no horse in this race.' Ben says it might be the strongest strategic position in the whole AI stack.
Perplexity doubled its ARR from approximately $200 million to $450 million in a single month, fueled by its multi-model 'harness' strategy.
Anthropic's new Claude Code desktop app organizes projects by folder with pinned threads, runs multiple agents in parallel, integrates MCPs locally, and auto-creates GitHub branches and PRs. It's more normie-friendly than Cursor but slightly behind on raw feature depth.
