Jordy: Anthropic's AI safety focus was the wrong short-term bet
Jordy (Geordie) · The BEST Super Bowl Commercial (Saquon Barkley) · Feb 10, 2025 · at 45:07
TBPN co-host Jordy discusses Amazon's AI strategy and its major investment in foundation model startup Anthropic.
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“Anthropic made a clear bet around AI safety and a lot of other firms ignored that deep seek one of them. And so that seems to be in the short term, the wrong bet to make.”
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