If youve been following Anthropic, youll understand its been a busy year for the AI startup.
Back in March, the business announced that it raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion valuation in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Since then, its introduced a blog for its Claude models and, according to Bloomberg reporting, partnered with Apple to power a new vibe-coding software application platform.Instead of our typical Friday news rundown, todays episode of Equity brings you a conversation from todays A Technology NewsRoom Sessions: AI occasion in Berkeley.
Our buddy and co-host Max Zeff sat down with Jared Kaplan, co-founder and chief science officer at Anthropic.Listen to the complete conversation to hear more about: Who has direct access to Claudes AI designs, Windsurfs reaction, and how everything ties into Anthropics wider goals around openness, safety, and sustainability.The business pivot far from chatbots and toward agentic AI systems that can carry out genuine tasks.How internal tools like Claude Code are forming the future of AI-powered development.What it means to construct AI that business can actually trust, and how that affects the method humans communicate with software, work, and each other.Equity is A Technology NewsRooms flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday.
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