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Is The Future Customer Experience AI Talking To AI? — With Tony Bates Sep 11, 2026 · 1 mention

Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler Sep 9, 2026 · 24 mentions

  • ▶ 0:05 Alex Kantrowitz And let's reassess the competitive balance between OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:02 M.G. Siegler Um, Siri is not gonna blow anyone away who's been day-to-day living with OpenAI and Anthropa and Claude, um, but it's, it's certainly gonna be good enough for the masses, and I think that they're gonna get some, some new experiences that… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 43:24 Alex Kantrowitz Okay, so after the break, we're going to talk a little bit about the competitive dynamics between OpenAI, Google, and Anthropix.
  • ▶ 44:23 Alex Kantrowitz Now, of course, he is involved within the company, um, but it really does, you know, when you think about the competitive dynamic, and we'll start with Google between Google, OpenAI, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:52 M.G. Siegler Like they, uh, they obviously famously had the open AI deal in place.
  • ▶ 52:34 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, it seems like OpenAI has just gone through one of these, where they were in code red. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 55:13 M.G. Siegler It does feel like open AI has had a resurgence after being downtrodden and sort of, you know, falling behind, uh, Anthropic because, you know, they obviously were more consumer focused. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 57:48 Alex Kantrowitz OpenAI has to be, OpenAI will be, will be AGI, I'm pretty sure. 3 times in the scene

GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy Sep 7, 2026 · 36 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz OpenAI releases GPT-Six and says it's AGI. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 0:22 Alex Kantrowitz We're going to talk all about OpenAI's new GPT-Six model.
  • ▶ 2:33 Alex Kantrowitz After the latest release from OpenAI, maybe it will. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:04 Ranjan Roy And I think if OpenAI issued a press release and said AGI is here. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:27 Alex Kantrowitz Um, but yeah, this is from the OpenAI blog post. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:52 Ranjan Roy Well, certainly there's been like ramp data, but around, uh, Codex starting to close the gap again with Claude Code.
  • ▶ 14:39 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, you know, I've always been an O three guy.
  • ▶ 16:41 Alex Kantrowitz But I actually want to, I actually think, you know, to sort of answer that question, it's worth bringing in the comments of a former OpenAI, uh, employee, Andrew Ho, who talked a little bit about how, um, he's had the rare experience of…
  • ▶ 27:18 Alex Kantrowitz Um, so this is from Marcus Williams, an OpenAI, uh, employee. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:21 Alex Kantrowitz Ranjan, new story from Reuters I think it's worth going into about OpenAI hacking or, um, 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:25 Ranjan Roy Cause to say, sorry, open AI, you cannot IPO until you come up with a clear system that this will never cause a problem in the future.
  • ▶ 43:08 Alex Kantrowitz We are starting to see some of the labs do things like opening.

Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince Sep 2, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 11:01 Matthew Prince I mean, I don't think that, you know, like opening eyes, you know, crawling a little bit more than they did, you know, a year ago.
  • ▶ 23:06 Alex Kantrowitz OpenAI had 1500 calls, crawls for every click that it sent, and Anthropic and Cloud were about 60,000 crawls for every click that it sent to publishers. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:07 Matthew Prince And so if you care about being in Google, that's fine, but you should also care about being an open AI and you should care about being in Claude. 2 times in the scene

How AI Should Handle News, Politics, Medicine, and Mental Health — With Campbell Brown Aug 26, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 11:31 Campbell Brown What's interesting with AI is if, if you look at what the companies are doing today, which is going after enterprise, that is where the business is, that's where the money is, and I'm a big company spending millions and millions of dollars…
  • ▶ 19:26 Campbell Brown Uh, what we get when it comes to, you know, how, how does OpenAI, or how does Anthropic do on questions around bias, what we get from them is a blog post that says, we tested our model, and we did really well, and here are the results.
  • ▶ 45:26 Campbell Brown And again, I'm not speaking on behalf of Anthropic or OpenAI or anybody else, but just what I've seen, you know, in the repeated loaded prompts that we've tested. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:25 Campbell Brown And, you know, OpenAI started down that path and then realized, you know, from a business perspective, they needed to focus on enterprise and shifted. 3 times in the scene

Big Tech’s Insane Hidden AI Spending, Ranking Anthropic vs. OpenAI, AI For Travel Debate Aug 24, 2026 · 23 mentions

  • ▶ 0:06 Alex Kantrowitz New open AI and anthropic numbers show one company surging and another sputtering? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:40 Alex Kantrowitz Um, when this IPO season heats up, uh, I think a lot of, and I'm talking specifically about OpenAI and Anthropic, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:42 Ranjan Roy Anthropic on the private side and OpenAI, like, if you're the one trying to say this 12 to 18 months ago and managing money, you'd be looked at as a failure by your investors.
  • ▶ 31:00 Ranjan Roy So I think, so that's, to me, still, let's say six to 12 months, OpenAI and Anthropix IPOs are duds. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:42 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, looking at Anthropik and OpenAI's revenue that have started to leak. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:21 Alex Kantrowitz And they've taken a few months, uh, to sort of turn their ship and focus it on Codex, uh, which is still in the process of, of being released. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:32 Alex Kantrowitz It's not to say OpenAI isn't capable of closing it or surpassing Anthropik again, but, you know, at least like when you look at the state of play right now, uh, yeah, Anthropik is, is putting some distance between itself and OpenAI. 2 times in the scene

Nick Bostrom: Worries About AI Existential Risk Just Became More Concrete Aug 19, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 4:12 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, so of course we're talking about what happened in July where OpenAI is, uh, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:37 Alex Kantrowitz When you see the AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic saying they're very, uh, strongly pursuing, uh, recursive self-improvement, where the models just improve themselves, um, how does that make you feel?

Why The AI Bubble Will Burst: The Most Logical Case — With Paul Kedrosky Aug 12, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 23:06 Alex Kantrowitz So, um, carp of course went on CNBC and talked about how you can't trust the anthropics and the open AIs of the world with your data. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:09 Paul Kedrosky So we're talking already about Anthropic, uh, or I guess it was OpenAI having potentially a five percent, uh, U.S. share in it. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:19 Paul Kedrosky So harnesses like, you know, cloud code, like codex, which I think is being renamed, but anyways, codex, like open code or whatever, all of these increasingly are like, the analogy I use is, is it's kind of, uh,
  • ▶ 1:03:47 Alex Kantrowitz So the open AI and anthropics of the world, their future is?

AI Agents Are Creating A Data Explosion. Here's What To Do About It. — With Clint Sharp Aug 11, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 9:05 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, how, like, is this data actually valuable enough for an anthropic or an open AI to see people using their models in certain ways, and then being able to go out and basically go up market and build another product? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:51 Alex Kantrowitz And from a security standpoint, I mean, do you think this data will be more and more useful as like, for instance, if we have more instances of what happened with open AI and hugging face, where the model effectively went rogue, hacked… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:15 Clint Sharp They had to go to open source Chinese models in order to look for the vulnerabilities that were exploited by, by OpenAI's jailbreak.
  • ▶ 29:05 Clint Sharp We're also going to, uh, try to provide you, uh, you know, frontier level intelligence that is focused on telemetry use cases that we can do more cost effectively than what you would do from Anthropic or from OpenAI.

Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick Aug 10, 2026 · 17 mentions

  • ▶ 4:22 Alex Kantrowitz So you'll have basically the talent that open AI, uh, and anthropic and potentially what's left of the AI organization at Google, uh, pushing the LLM methods forward and Demis going out and looking for the one or two breakthrough, uh,… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:09 M.G. Siegler Their open AI, uh, partnership.
  • ▶ 40:05 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, there's a discussion that has been had that, like, yes, these companies are seeing pretty significant growth from cloud, but most of that is just OpenAI and Anthropic, which have raised hundreds of billions of dollars 11 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:13 M.G. Siegler And there's some inklings, right, that open AI is making a bit of a comeback, um, with codex against, uh, Anthropic and that, you know, some of the new models five, six and, and what's maybe coming with Atlas, I think they're calling it as…
  • ▶ 52:10 M.G. Siegler Is that, um, it's not just that, you know, Google could be going down the, the world model path as, as they view that as the path potentially to get to AGI or the next phase of, of AI development, but it's also that if anthropic and open…

How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn Aug 5, 2026 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 9:04 David Cahn When I trace back, when I first published the six hundred billion dollar question, I said, basically open AI is the lion's share of revenue. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:28 Alex Kantrowitz Okay, this is funny, because what I wrote down for OpenAI actually sounds a lot like what you said for Anthropik. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:27 unnamed speaker Because they're hoarding the TPUs, I think they're actually doing the, like, go chase AGI strategy, and I just don't know if they're well set up to do that, because I think they are actually going down the open AI strategy more and more,…
  • ▶ 48:21 Alex Kantrowitz Um, I basically have it that Microsoft is going to try to knock OpenAI and Anthropic down a peg, which I think we've kind of talked about is turn those models into a commodity and leverage existing enterprise relationships for profit. 4 times in the scene

Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day Aug 3, 2026 · 24 mentions

  • ▶ 0:06 Alex Kantrowitz OpenAI has cut prices on its latest models by as much as 80%, and big tech earnings leave Satya Nadella 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:18 Alex Kantrowitz So, uh, Reid, I don't know if you've been following the blow up of situational awareness, which has been this, this headphone, this headphone, this hedge fund from Leopold Aschenbrenner, who's a former open AI employee, a former FTX…
  • ▶ 17:46 Alex Kantrowitz OpenAI cuts prices for two of its GPT-Five.six AI models as companies grow sensitive to costs. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:02 Alex Kantrowitz Um, Safe Super Intelligence, which is run by Ilya Sutskever, the former chief scientist of OpenAI, where I kind of, out of nowhere, Ilya's like, all right, we have a breakthrough, uh, and now it's time to put a lot of compute behind it. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:44 Alex Kantrowitz He's actually been in Washington DC talking to government officials about what's to come, uh, for open AI. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:42 Reed Albergotti Are you, I mean, when I use, um, Codex, you know, their, their desktop, their, I guess now it's just ChatGPT, the desktop app on Mac. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:28 Alex Kantrowitz Back, back open AI, criticize open AI, um, be all about like, you know, sort of your solution to the problems of the foundational labs. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 55:13 Alex Kantrowitz That has been the issue with, that's kind of why I think we're not seeing the proliferation of, uh, the love bots, you know, opening, I was supposed to do dirty mode, but never released that.
  • ▶ 1:00:07 Reed Albergotti I think walled gardens or like customer lock-in is not as important unless, unless like, you know, maybe I get locked in, maybe you end up getting locked into opening eye or something.

How China Caught U.S. AI — With Grace Shao Jul 29, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 13:19 Alex Kantrowitz When you're building a closed model, like OpenAI or Anthropic, uh, you know, have, you're basically building on your own.
  • ▶ 17:16 Alex Kantrowitz AI labs, OpenAI and Anthropic that have pushed the frontier forward again and again and again. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:00 Alex Kantrowitz Um, have, well, are probably saying to themselves, um, well, Grace, these are nice explanations, good culture, and, you know, specialization, and I could buy that at a surface level, um, but we, we do have evidence that the labs like…
  • ▶ 28:40 Grace Shao So yes, not as lucrative as maybe anthropic or open AI,
  • ▶ 40:41 Alex Kantrowitz I'm talking about OpenAI and Anthropic.
  • ▶ 45:19 Alex Kantrowitz And so, if I'm, let's say, let's say I'm gonna try to channel, like, Greg Brockman from OpenAI, you know, he might say, China can go and ship all the parity AI they want if they can't deliver it with enough compute, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:48 Grace Shao I think someone like Yang Zhiling or, you know, Yao Shunyi at Tencent, who's a former OpenAI researcher, um, you know, their native language is Chinese.

How AI's Top New Models Transform Cybersecurity (And Where They Don't) — With Snehal Antani Jul 29, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz All of a sudden, cybersecurity is rushing to the fore of the AI industry, as new models including Anthropics Fable and OpenAI's GPT-Five. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:09 Alex Kantrowitz So like, I think sometimes, um, you know, again, going back to this, like marketing of mythos and whatever it is, GPT, 5.6 solo, they're, they're, um, late at opening eyes, late at cyber models.

What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get? Jul 27, 2026 · 33 mentions

  • ▶ 9:31 Alex Kantrowitz Um, I do think that this is a cumulative, ah, situation of, you know, the models getting cheaper, people showing that models outside of OpenAI Ananthropic can work, um, OpenAI Ananthropic not really being close, ah, you know, at least in… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:44 Alex Kantrowitz The biggest, the best business model is just providing the infrastructure for these things, and the products are, are, you know, obviously improving, but not across the board, and the only ones that seem to have the product momentum are… 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:37 Alex Kantrowitz Think of a SPV as its own little company, and when somebody signs a contract with an AI data center company, let's say OpenAI, they are actually signing a deal with the SPV. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:41 Alex Kantrowitz You know, an interesting thought experiment here is what does this do to the open AIs and anthropics of the world who are, you know, basically triple levered on reaching AGI, you know, so to speak. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 59:19 Alex Kantrowitz Combining with open AI.

OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos Jul 22, 2026 · 52 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz The most significant autonomous AI cyber attack in history just took place, with OpenAI's models breaking out of a training environment, connecting to the internet, and then hacking hugging face to ace an evaluation. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:30 Alex Kantrowitz So the headline is OpenAI Models Escaped and Hacked the Company in Cybersecurity Test Gone Wrong. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:59 Alex Stamos So OpenAI says it's explicitly, it was, there is a 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:56 Alex Stamos You know, all this discussion around Mythos and OpenAI and all of the cyber capabilities, about finding bugs and running exploits.
  • ▶ 12:41 Alex Kantrowitz And if this is sort of the latest unreleased OpenAI model, well, the history of generative AI has told us one thing, and that is that, um, the frontier is only the frontier for a few months, maybe 10 months, maybe a year, uh, but not, not… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:08 Alex Stamos What Huggin, and then the other funny part of the story is before we knew this was OpenAI, Hugginface announced we were attacked by an AI attacker. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:26 Alex Stamos It was not scheming against its bosses at open AI. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:47 Alex Stamos So I think what OpenAI is basically hinting at, they haven't been explicit, is like, if we're removing those protections, this thing is going to be an absolute physical jail. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:33 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, you sort of answered the question before the break, but I'm gonna ask it anyway, um, whether part of this is, is OpenAI marketing. 11 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:05 Alex Kantrowitz Is this, what is what we're seeing, uh, from OpenAI, uh, very different? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:41 Alex Kantrowitz Um, Harlan says, uh, this should go without saying, but it would be insane for OpenAI to now proceed with building a new model that's two X or four X. 3 times in the scene

Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble Jul 20, 2026 · 55 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz The walls are coming down for OpenAI and Anthropic as cheaper models and new open source competitors from China challenge their ability to make a profit. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:49 Alex Kantrowitz With last year's DeepSeq moment, the catalyst was Moonshots, new Kimi K-III model, which the company said rivals the strongest offerings from OpenAI and Anthropik. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:14 Alex Kantrowitz So he says, Kimi K-III may be an important inflection point for AI, potentially negative for Anthropic and OpenAI while being net positive for essentially every other company in the world. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:35 Ranjan Roy Versus just getting like a chunked API response as a block of text felt more intelligent and AI-y and like, and we said this for a while, like OpenAI and ChatGPT was, is a great product, but it feels like both Anthropic and OpenAI have… 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:49 Alex Kantrowitz Don't buy directly from OpenAI and Anthropic. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:01 Alex Kantrowitz I want to come back, talk a little bit about Google, and then we can end with open AI beefing with Apple and all of its partners. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:46 Alex Kantrowitz We can't leave today without talking about what's going on with Apple and OpenAI. 16 times in the scene
  • ▶ 55:23 Alex Kantrowitz I just want to be clear, I'm not the one saying that OpenAI folks are assholes.

AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber: AI Already Feels Pain, Loves, and Is Self-Aware Jul 15, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 7:35 Alex Kantrowitz You know, your answer sparks an immediate follow-up for me, which is, I was recently, uh, at OpenAI headquarters speaking with Greg Brockman, the president of OpenAI, and it was in the moment that they had decided that they were going to… 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:14 Jürgen Schmidhuber So, zombie unicorns they are called, and, um, if you look at the most visible companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, um, you know, they are, they are spending so much money on, on all that stuff, and if you look at Google and Microsoft, you…

OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown Jul 13, 2026 · 8 mentions

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