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Kantrowitz: OpenAI and Anthropic Are Shifting to Proprietary Super Apps
“Over the past three or four months, both of them have gravitated toward building a super app. Something that uses the most advanced intelligence to control your computer, that will, to help you get things done, to in some cases even build new software for you”
Kantrowitz: AI labs will eventually have to choose between apps and APIs
“I think you will eventually have to make a bet on what your business is. It's very tough to sustain both for a while, and who do you want to have the best models in that case?”
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar stopped reporting directly to Sam Altman in 2025
“Fryer stopped reporting directly to Altman in August last year, and instead began reporting to Fiji Simo, who had joined as head of OpenAI's applications business”
Anthropic will beat OpenAI to launching a fully integrated agentic super app
“I, right now I would bet honestly on Anthropic doing it first, doing it better. But it really comes down to the timing of when open AI gets this super app out there.”
MG Siegler predicts OpenAI and Anthropic will not IPO in 2026
“I actually predict as one of my year end predictions, I predicted that neither OpenAI nor Anthropic will go public in 20, 26.”
Fidji Simo could eventually replace Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO
“That's sort of why I've always
Sort of had in the back of my head that I would not be shocked if Fiji Simo is eventually sort of overall CEO and they just sort of have Sam Altman there because he's a vital still obviously from a fundraise perspective from so…”
OpenAI and Anthropic must IPO eventually after tapping out private capital
“But the reality is like, given these numbers, open AI is going to need to go public. Like they need the capital and itthropic as well. Like they basically have tapped into all of the possible you know, private capital.”
OpenAI is struggling to raise debt for data centers due to unprofitability
“Because remember again, like open AI in particulars had a really hard time. And this was in some of the reporting today as well, like with regard to trying to build their own data centers, because they just, They don't have profits. Like what, how are they, yo…”
OpenAI's Codex enterprise business remains significantly smaller than Anthropic's Claude Code
“It seems like it's a fast growing business codex for them, but it's still not nearly, you know, as big as cloud code is.”
Kantrowitz: Acquired podcast TBPN reports to OpenAI chief lobbyist Chris Lehane
“They're also reporting into Chris Lehane, who's the company's chief lobbyist.”
Brockman: OpenAI Is Unifying Agentic Interaction Harnesses Into a Single Super App
“All of that was something that we had multiple implementations of, or slightly different, and we're converging it. We're going to have one version of that, and almost end up with this AI layer that can be pointed at specific applications in a very thin way, so…”
Brockman: We Are Currently 70% to 80% of the Way to AGI
“I think that I'd say I'm, Basically, like, 70, 80% there, so I think we're quite close.”
Brockman: OpenAI Lacks Enough Compute to Fund Its Top Priorities
“And when we look at the compute we have, we are not even gonna have enough compute to fund those two things.”
Brockman: Late 2025 Models Boosted AI Task Completion from 20% to 80%
“So new model races really went from the AI being able to do like, 20% of your tasks to like, 80%.”
Brockman: OpenAI Abilene Supercomputer Annually Uses Water Equivalent to One Household
“If you actually look at our Abilene facility, which is one of, if not the biggest supercomputers in the world, the amount of water it uses Is the same as a household over the course of a year, right? So it's really negligible water use.”
Brockman: Top AI Models Will Face Compute-Driven Outages Within Six Months
“Six months from now, I think that everyone will feel it. And I think that we will all feel the pain of there's an awesome model. And there's just no availability because there's not enough compute.”
Brockman: Everyone in AI Will Face Severe Compute Shortages This Year
“And I think that we will see even this year, how everyone who is participating is going to be compute strapped.”
Brockman: Treat AI Compute as a Revenue Center Like Hiring Salespeople
“You can think of compute not as a cost center, but as a revenue center. Think of it a little bit like hiring salespeople. How many salespeople do you want to hire? As long as you can sell your product, as long as you have a scalable way to sell that product, t…”
Brockman: Massive Scale AI Training Requires Concentrated Compute Clusters
“Well, because the, there's multiple reasons but one is that even as the balance of how much inference versus training changes, that you cannot get massive scale training Through any other way besides this concentration of compute on one problem.”
Brockman: Pre-Training Capability Multiplies Through the Entire AI Model Pipeline
“Every single step of the model production pipeline multiplies. And so you want to improve all of them. And the thing that we see is we prove the pre-training. It makes all the other steps much easier. And it makes sense because it's a model is able to learn fa…”
Brockman: AI Progress Is Now About Execution Harnesses Over Raw Models
“And we talked about it a little bit in the case of the underlying models, but the thing that's really changed over the past couple of years has been that it's no longer just about the model. It's about the harness. It's about how does the model get context? Ho…”
Brockman: AI capabilities working today will be incredibly reliable within a year
“But it is all indicated by what's kind of working right now, certainly within a year, sometimes much sooner is going to be incredibly reliable.”
Brockman: ChatGPT Image Generation Uses GPT Architecture, Not Diffusion Models
“The reason we're able to do that is because it's not actually on the world model, like diffusion model tech, tech branch. It's actually based on the GPT architecture, and so there, even though it's a different data distribution, the actual core technology at t…”
Brockman: OpenAI Reasoning Model Solved an Unsolved Physics Problem in 12 Hours
“We had this result recently where a physicist had been working on a problem for some time. He gave it to our model. 12 hours later, we have a solution, and he said this is the first time he's seen a model where he felt like he was thinking, that it felt like t…”
Brockman: OpenAI Automating Its Own Research Scientists' End-to-End Workflows
“And at a practical level, I think I would view it as ex, is taking the full end to end of what one of our research scientists does and be able to do that in Silicon.”
Yen: Opting out of AI training does not prevent data collection indefinitely
“Even if they don't use it for training, they can still store it for a long time, actually forever. They can still hand it over to a government under a subpoena. They could leak it if they were hacked in the future. So just because you've opted out of training …”
Anthropic captures 73% of first-time enterprise AI spend, per Ramp
“Anthropic is now capturing over 73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first time.
73%.
Just 10 weeks ago, the split with OpenAI was fifty-fifty, and it was sixty-forty in OpenAI's favor as recently as December.”
Microsoft may sue OpenAI over Amazon investment, Reuters reports
“So there's reporting from Reuters that Microsoft may sue OpenAI over their fifty billion dollar investment from Amazon, and because it could violate the exclusive cloud agreement that they had they had set a number of years ago that, like, all OpenAI products …”
Sorkin: SpaceX IPO Will Likely Outpace OpenAI in Valuation
“Oh, I imagine it does. I mean, I, if we're talking, I think the numbers now, 1.75 trillion dollars with a T. I think right now OpenAI isn't, doesn't start with a T yet, but maybe.”
Meta delays flagship AI model after failing to outperform Gemini 2.5
“Meta's new foundational AI model, which the company has been working on for months, has fallen short on the performance leading AI models the performance of leading AI models from rivals like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropik. On internal testing, it is now delaye…”
AI chatbots will become memory-sharing authentication layers, not super apps
“Maybe you're not ordering an Uber through ChatGPT, but any other product you can authenticate through, and it can borrow your tokens, it can borrow your memory, it can borrow everything that it knows about you from ChatGPT. I think that is probably more of whe…”
Manual software onboarding will disappear in two to five years
“In two, three, five years, Onboarding to software should not be a thing. Like, you should be able to log in with a ChatGPT or a Claude, and that new software product should know everything about you and, like, set up perfectly to cater to you”
Founders trying cheaper audio models consistently return to ElevenLabs for quality
“11 Labs is a great example because I think you would imagine that OpenAI and others would have Built their own best in class audio models, but they just had such a compelling head start to the point that, like, the models are amazing. I will talk to founders w…”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI will be the fastest-growing company ever
“Opening eyes is going to be the fastest growing company ever, so you probably do want a stake of that if you're a company with the means to invest, and Amazon certainly had the money to do it.”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI projects revenue reaching $284 billion by 2030
“They expect to be thirty billion in revenue this year, sixty two billion in revenue next year. A hundred and thirteen billion in 2028, one hundred eighty four billion in 2029, and buckle your seatbelt for this one, two hundred and eighty four billion in 2030.”
Horowitz: Sam Altman is attempting to broker Pentagon-Anthropic peace deal
“Some of the other frontier AI labs like XAI and OpenAI are already now willing to work on the classified side, and you know, Sam Altman is attempting to broker a piece, essentially, and create a deal that perhaps Anthropik could join as well.”
Adler: OpenAI Left Delusion-Detection Safety Classifiers Undeployed on Shelf
“My concern with the relationships is less so the relationships themselves and more that open AI had a bunch of important safety tooling to make this less harmful that they left on the shelf. So for example, they had classifiers to tell when users were really s…”
Adler: Enormous AI Valuations May Deter Regulators From Enforcing the Law
“And the more that the companies become valuable and when they become public and public equities become tied to them, I just worry about worlds where we are reluctant to enforce the law on companies, even if they are breaking it because so much of financial pro…”
Ramaswamy: Any AI model lead OpenAI or Anthropic gain will vanish quickly
“This just means that OpenAI and Anthropic need to understand that any kind of lead that they get is not going to be a long-lived one, and they really have to work hard and compete.”
Siegler: Nvidia was likely acting as OpenAI's infrastructure debt guarantor
“To me, that seemed like what a big part of this deal was basically NVIDIA stepping in to be a, you know, a guarantor of the debt that, that opening AI would need to raise.”
Kantrowitz: Sam Altman said he would hate being a public company CEO
“Sam Altman made that comment to me when I spoke with him late last year that he would hate being a public company CEO, something along those lines.”
Siegler: OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs will probably be delayed to 2027
“In terms of OpenAI and Anthropic, I just think that beyond where their businesses are at and with these now massive fundraisers, as we're talking about, like, I think that it will push it out a little bit. And the real, Wild card is obviously, as it always is,…”
Siegler: Nvidia likely to participate in OpenAI's new round instead of $100B deal
“Actually with open AI doing their new fundraise, it's more likely that NVIDIA is just going to be a part of that fundraise.”
Morris: Anthropic has probably lost the consumer AI battle to OpenAI
“I mean, it's probably already lost the kind of consumer app battle to open AI with Google, you know, making some small inroads in that, but not really for a company of its size.”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's GPT-6 might launch in Q2 2026
“I did hear that GPT-Six might be coming in the second quarter this year, so maybe as soon as, you know, this spring, which would be interesting.”
Taylor: Sam Altman possesses a Steve Jobs-like reality distortion field
“Sam probably has the most ambitious vision of any founder that I've worked with, and his superpower is aligning people to that vision. I was, didn't have the good fortune of really knowing Steve Jobs, but they always talked about the reality distortion field a…”