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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”
Jason Calacanis Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 48:47 The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
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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.”
David Friedberg May 1, 2026 ▶ 13:38 OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
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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.”
Jason Calacanis Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 45:24 Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
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