Anthropic

“I'll just say it as blunt as it can be is there's not really a genuine differentiation between ChatGPT or Anthropic or Gemini or Grok or Meta AI. Right now.”

“They very distinctly do not really do much outside of text-to-text models. So less audio stuff, video stuff things like that, and that's really their primary focus, and in terms of a business, they just serve enterprise customers primarily.”

“And everything that we've advocated for here not just SB-fifty-three, but all the proposals that we've made, the ones that we've made in the past, and the ones that, that we plan to make in the future, Have this character. We're constraining ourselves and a ve…”

“You know, we did some studies around code and showed that, you know, depending on how you use the model, you know, we can see, De-skilling in terms of writing code, right? There are different ways to use the model, and some of them don't cause de-skilling, and…”

“We're not going to promise never to build first party products, right? That we should be honest about. For example, a bunch of people at Anthropic write code. And so, you know, we made this internal tool called Claude Code.”

“A lot of these models, particularly the ones that come from China, are optimized for benchmarks and are distilled from, ah, you know, from kind of the big US labs.”

“Within a range, price doesn't matter that much if a model is, is the best model, the most cognitively capable model. Price doesn't matter much. The form in which it's presented doesn't matter much. So I'm focused almost entirely just on having the smartest mod…”

“We've given the model the ability to basically terminate its conversations by saying, I don't want to be involved in the conversation. And, you know, models do that when, you know, they have to deal with, you know, particularly violent or brutal content.”

“We've said that there should be regulation of AI when all the other companies and the administration have said there shouldn't be regulation of AI.”

“Like a business should establish a moat, you know, your moat, you shouldn't be just a rapper, right? Like, you know, I would not advise that, you know, you just say, oh, like, you know, here's a way to interact with Claude. Like I'm going to prompt Claude a li…”

“Static data is becoming less important and what we might call like dynamic data that the model creates itself is, you know, for reinforcement learning is becoming more important. So, you know, I don't think data is, is, is quite the most central thing anymore,…”

“The regulation we've advocated for example, SB in California exempted everyone who makes under five hundred million dollars a year in, in in, in, in revenue, right? SB, SB was a transparency law, which you know basically requires companies to you know, to show…”

“The last time I came here, you know, I met with all the, you know, the major kind of Indian IT and just conglomerates more generally. I won't give names, but, you know, the usual ones you would think of you know, and then we're beginning to work with most or m…”

“The number of users and the number of revenue we've seen in India has doubled since I last visited in October. So that was what November, December is like three, three and a half months since I visited. It's doubled.”

“The majority of our revenue still comes from the API model.”

“I don't think we need to build all those things. You know, it, you know, my thought would be, you know, we're gonna, it's gonna be a mixture of things we make ourselves and integrating into others, right?”

“This is one reason we just, you know, don't like the idea of, you know, using ads, right? You know, this is because you're not paying for the product like you're the product. And, you know, in this case, the, you know, the product then would be all, you know, …”

“So back in 2022 you know, we had an early version of Claude, Claude one. This was before ChatGPT. And we chose not to release this because we were worried that it would kick off an arms race and not give us enough time to, you know, to build these systems safe…”

“We have an unusual governance structure, something called the long-term benefit Trust. you know, it's a body that, that kind of ultimately appoints, you know, the majority of the board members for Anthropic and is, you know, made up of financially disinterest…”

“We've been able to find, you know, neurons that correspond to very specific concepts, neural circuits that correspond to, you know, keep track of how to do rhymes in poetry, and so we're starting to understand what these models Do, right?”

“Among the LLMs, we waited, and then we saw anthropic inflect. We're betting in a world model that does text-to-video call runway.”

“I mean, the coding harnesses to me don't feel like that defensible. You know, they're, that you could, some of them have actually been leaked on the open source. I mean, you could actually like, I think software is basically free, so you could recreate a codin…”