70% of AI compute is inference
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The $10B Satellite Empire Putting AI in Orbit, Why Chips Beat Rockets & China's #1 Open Model | EP #266
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Jun 26, 2026
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Anthropic's Recruiting Pitch: Access to the Frontier Beyond the Firewall
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Dave and Peter argue researchers are flocking to Anthropic not just for comp but to be present at the singularity. Anthropic reportedly shows applicants raw pre-trained model access. Will defends Google on compute and data. [1] — Peter Diamandis "The co-author of the Transformer paper left Google for OpenAI. The Nobel laureate behind AlphaFold left Google DeepMind for Anthropic. Thes…" 1:18:36
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