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Calacanis: Anthropic downloaded 7 million pirated books to train Claude
“Anthropic downloaded seven million books from pirated websites to train Claude”
Calacanis: Apple edge AI will put heavy downward pressure on OpenAI and Claude
“They will put so much downward pressure on Claude and OpenAI by just putting local models and supporting them with this memory architecture.”
Friedberg: OpenAI has 900 million weekly active users
“Open AI, even if they're not at a billion, they're still at nine hundred million weekly users, which is well ahead of whatever Claude is at.”
Friedberg replaced entire software stack in 90 minutes using Claude agents
“Replaced a whole software stack and, like, a whole bunch of workload. 90 minutes on Claude ran this agentic system, built the whole thing, deployed it, and we got, we were all. On a Sunday night. On a Sunday night, 10 p.m., I was done at 11:30, I went to bed.”
Junestrand: Shallow legal features in general LLMs serve as Legora's pipeline
“So it's actually a big pipeline generator for us.”
Calacanis: Users won't distinguish NVIDIA's Nemotron from Claude in 95% of searches
“You will not be able to tell the difference between Jensen Wong's open source LLM sacks and Claude for 95% of your searches. I guarantee you.”
Nate Silver: Claude and ChatGPT are less polarizing than Twitter or Bluesky
“Claude or ChatGPT is probably less polarizing than Blue Sky or Twitter.”
Calacanis: Cut SaaS spending 90% using Claude and Slack integrations
“We had an instance with a SAS product with 20 seats. Nobody was logging in and using it, but the data was there. So we created like three accounts, got rid of 17, connected it to Slack, connected it to Claude. And now everybody can interface it through a natur…”
Sacks: Proficiency in Claude is currently the most marketable skill
“I think the single most marketable skill in the economy right now has got to be proficiency in Claude. If you're going into a firm right now and you're the only one who knows Claude, it would be like you're the only one who knows how to work a spreadsheet, you…”
Calacanis: Local open-source models deliver about 80% of frontier performance for free
“I have started running Kimmy 2.5 on a Mac studio. It's not as good as Claude or Gemini or Grok, but you can probably do about 80% there for free.”
Chamath: AT-NID deprecated Cursor due to excessive token costs
“So one of the things we had to do was just, we had to say, guys, you got to deprecate Cursor because you're just wrapping quad code and charging us way too much for these tokens.”
Calacanis: Major AI labs will never permit root-level system access
“Nobody like Claude or XAI or Microsoft would ever allow you to do this because it's so dangerous, obviously.”
Calacanis: Moving sensitive data off Claude to run local models on Mac Studios
“I literally just ordered two Mac Studio M fives. I just ordered two of these, we're going to be running local models, and we're moving off Claude for a lot of our sensitive data.”
Calacanis: AI deep research yields 5x human output in under 10 minutes
“And when I tell you they would ask for 48 hours to do a dossier, that was 20% of what this does in under 10 minutes.”
Feldman: Slow AI model latency causes immediate user churn
“While you're waiting for Claude, or you're waiting for ChatGPT, you get a coffee, or you poke around somewhere else, and you've lost the customer. That's the cost of being slow, is the customer has gone somewhere else.”
Chamath: 8090 uses Gemini for general tasks and Claude for coding
“So for many tasks at 8090, we use Gemini. It's incredible. But for most of our co-gen, we use Anthropic and Claude kicks ass. It's exceptional.”
Sacks: Next-gen AI models like ChatGPT-5 will hit A-plus quality within a year
“And, you know, in a year or so, we're going to be at the next gen version of all the models. You're going to be at, I'm sure you know, ChatGPT five will be out and then the next version of Claude and so forth. At that point, it's going to be an A plus.”
Calacanis: DeepSeek V3.2 EXP API pricing is 10x to 35x cheaper than Claude
“The new model charges 28 cents per million inputs, 42 cents per million outputs. Claude, which is a leading model from Anthropic that a lot of developers use, a lot of startups use, is like three dollars and 15, so 10 times, 35 times more expensive.”