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Okay, this is pretty insane. OpenAI is launching their own version of the iPhone

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and it's shipping in less than 12 months.

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Yesterday, an analyst which has the highest hit rate of any Apple product leak

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dropped a report that revealed that OpenAI is building their own phone and it's

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been designed by the very guy that designed the original iPhone, Johnny Ive.

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They're targeting around 40 to 50 million units for year one,

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which is larger than the opening sales of the iPhone itself.

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Now, this is a very convincing rumor, but we wanted to investigate one,

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whether this was real, and it led us down the craziest rabbit hole ever.

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We pulled up Anthropic and OpenAI's job postings, and it revealed a hidden product

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roadmap that we're gonna talk about on this show.

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There's over 750 open roles between them, and it revealed a 24-month,

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two-year product roadmap that no one else is talking about.

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It didn't only confirm that OpenAI is building a phone, but it also tells us

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how the companies themselves are actually building in a very different strategic path from each other.

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Yeah, I didn't believe this and I still don't believe it, but every single rumor

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is pointing towards the fact that OpenAI is building an OpenAI phone and it

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is going to be designed by the same person who is building an iPhone.

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And we kind of have a brief of generally what we can expect.

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I think most noteworthy of this most recently because that they've expedited timelines.

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So there's a high probability that one year from now, we will be holding an

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OpenAI smartphone in our hands. Now, what is it going to look like?

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What is it going to feel like? we have some loose ideas of that

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starting with the form factor it seems like they're going for the traditional

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this isn't a pendant it's not glasses they're going for like a proper phone

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replacer so i would expect it to look like the iphone the big idea is that they're

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going to replace the operating system with an ai first operating system and

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we've always talked about how open ai is trying to build the ai first os but

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this is going to be the actual hardware in which it could be integrated on traditionally

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iPhones, you have that grid system where all your apps live.

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Yeah, we have a great, great rendering on screen. This will be fully predictive.

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So this is pending on a few things. One is that OpenAI is able to figure out

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the software stack in time, which I mean, 12 months seems like an eternity.

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I'm sure they'll be able to figure it out.

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And the other is that they'll be able to actually convince people to go and

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use this device instead of an iPhone.

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Now, this is separate from the product suite that we've mentioned in the past, where Johnny,

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I was developing earbuds or a pendant or a little puck

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that sits on your desk this is a full-blown display with

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a screen and a smartphone all integrated it seems like it's going to be built

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on top of open as cloud so i would expect memory and a lot of the graphical

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processing power to not be as important because a lot of it is going to be offload

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to open as cloud and i think this is really interesting news this isn't what i was expecting.

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I thought they were going to be the third device, like your computer,

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your phone, your maybe earbuds, but they're going for that phone slot.

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And this was really surprising for me to hear.

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But this analyst who was reporting on it, he is the most accurate Apple supply

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chain analyst in history.

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And he also seems to have a lot of other people backing him up as well.

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Here's the thing. I do think OpenAI is building the third device.

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They're pitching it as a phone, but it's going to act very and maybe even look

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very different to an actual phone. So a few differences I want to point out from the off.

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This phone is rumored to not have any apps on it at all.

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You will interact directly with an AI, presumably chat GPT, and you will feed it your data,

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your thoughts, your intentions, and it'll either generate apps or user interfaces

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on the fly, or it'll interact with other AI agents that will conduct the research process,

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information retrieval, whatever you might need for you on your behalf.

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So I'm describing here two different things.

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One, a completely different operating system that is more engineered towards

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the AI future or AI centric world.

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And the other thing is a completely different hardware component system.

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If you want to start serving this, you can imagine a few different things off

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the back, which is normal phones are oriented around, you know,

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running video, pictures, making sure apps can run optimally.

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This one is going to be oriented around inference and making sure prompts are

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processed and AI agents can run locally, that your data can remain private and

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a bunch of other things around that. So I've written a summary here.

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It's meant to allow OpenAI to win at the operating system level.

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And what I like about this is there's no other frontier AI lab,

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Namely Anthropic, that is going after the vertically integrated layer.

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You have Google, which plays on every single layer of the stack for AI.

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You have Apple that kind of fumbled the model building layer,

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but has all the distribution through their hardware components.

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And OpenAI has realized that probably quite early, actually.

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I have to give Sam credit for this.

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About a year and a half ago, he said in a very weird tweet that now,

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in hindsight, makes a lot of sense.

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I am not competing or OpenAI isn't competing with other AI labs.

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We're competing directly with Apple.

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And that is like an OG tweet. I need to find that. But it's making a lot more sense now.

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Not only is he trying to produce an iPhone competitor or a killer,

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but he's trying to create a range of different devices that can ingest your

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data either passively or unintentionally,

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feed it to ShadGPT and make it the greatest product experience vector that he can do.

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Now, a few other things, because I had an immediate question around this, right?

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How on earth are they going to deliver this in the first half of 2027?

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OpenAI does not have the supply chain prowess that the likes of Google and Apple already have.

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Well, the answer is they're going to be outsourcing this to a bunch of third-party users.

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I believe it's LockShare, which also happens to be the packaging and assembler of Meta's Ray-Bans.

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Now, if that's anything to go by, I'm not feeling quite confident at this point.

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But there's also MediaTek and Qualcomm. MediaTek does a lot of the high processing

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packaging for a lot of the GPU and NeoCloud assemblers.

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And Qualcomm has had a lot of favor in the mobile phone market.

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They have like Snapdragon, which runs in a bunch of Chinese phones specifically,

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but they have the scale to help OpenAI operate this at a larger extent or to match with iPhone.

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And the final thing is, what gives me hope, is Johnny Ive being in the mix here.

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Josh, I know you probably have some strong thoughts about this,

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but I think his design touch on top of this kind of like hardware scaling bet

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will give them the best shot at, you know, at least competing with the iPhone

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or whatever the next iPhone is going to be later this year.

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Yeah, it's so hard to imagine I would want to put another phone in my pocket

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that's not an iPhone. But if anyone's going to design it, it's going to be the

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guy who designed the iPhone.

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And I think this post says 2028. We actually have an update today from Ming,

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the analyst who is pushing these timelines up to 2027.

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In fact, it also gives us a few leaks of kind of the specs that we could expect

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inside of this phone. And this is something that's interesting too, because,

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we already know what's going to be in this thing. And it's amazing the supply

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chain and the leaks that are able to get out and stuff.

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But basically what this is saying is that it's going to be running on all of

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the cutting edge technology that you'd expect a Frontier iPhone 19 model this year to be running on.

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They have a deal with TSMC to create those two nanometer class transistors.

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That is the current state of the art. There is nothing better.

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They're using a lot of low power components. So I think one of the more important

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things for this phone, because ambient capture is going to be so important is

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energy efficiency over raw power.

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So it seems like some of these design choices they're using are for extended

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battery life. So it can be on all the time, constantly listening,

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constantly taking information. And you have to imagine this form factor.

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The reason they decided to go with it is because it's the only one that makes

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sense to be a true assistant throughout your day to day.

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It has the suite of cameras, the microphones, it has the accelerometers,

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it has the GPS baked into it.

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That's really difficult to include in this like suite of devices like the earbuds

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with a small puck so we have a lot of information on that we also have like

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you were mentioning the suppliers who they're going to be building with i mean

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these two nanometer chips are allegedly going in production in the second quarter of this year.

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That means these are going to start being made in the next couple of months.

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And we have deals with MediaTek, Qualcomm, TSMC, and Luxshare.

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And like you said with Luxshare, they do make Metis glasses,

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but they are also Apple's number two assembler behind Foxconn.

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They've built AirPods, the Apple Watch, and an increasing share of the iPhone.

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So they're using people who are basically the best in the world.

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They're using best-in-class components. And it's hard to imagine that this device

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isn't going to be excellent.

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It seems like foxconn is also involved which i didn't realize and foxconn currently

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they build open ai stargate services and for those who don't know foxconn has

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basically built every apple device you've used like foxconn makes all of the

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iphones a bunch of ipads macbooks the whole thing,

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foxconn has been building stargate service but now they're also going to be building those.

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Johnny i've designed devices while lux share takes the smartphone build so it's

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this crazy assembly manufacturing setup that they have where like i think it's

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actually going to work If any

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company is going to build a product like this, it's going to be OpenAI.

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They have the right people in place. They have the cutting-edge products.

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I guess the question is, are you actually going to want to put an OpenAI phone

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in your pocket instead of your iPhone?

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That's an easy answer for me. Absolutely, yes. But I'm also a sucker for some of the new devices.

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I'm not going to replace my iPhone, but I'm going to have it next to it.

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Because I want to see what this new operating system is going to look like.

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And to be honest, I don't think current mobile phones are built for what the

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future of AI is going to look like or function as.

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Yeah, if I'm going to be interactive, like look at Siri. Do you use Siri?

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I sure as hell don't. And I want to be able to use a Siri-enabled,

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I don't know, chat GPT that can do things for me and access all my apps so that

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I don't have to scroll and tap into them, right?

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that it can work or not as sure that it can work.

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Because if you look at like this stack that they're building,

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there's a lot of new things here, right? So OpenAI, ChatGPT is known for

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Absolutely nailing the large language model architecture, right?

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That's what they've made their bread and butter on.

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What they haven't proven is that they can get it to function optimally on a small enough device.

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Now, if there's one thing that Apple has all the experience on is hardware optimization.

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So if anyone's going to know how to run locally run models, either on device

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or through private cloud, because obviously there's a lot of data encryption

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stuff that needs to happen there.

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Apple has all the historical knowledge and expertise

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to be able to potentially pull that off open air i'm not

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entirely sure number two um open ai really

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is trying to define like a new uh ai stack

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here like an operating system um that's not only

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going to be large language models that's going to be images and

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image gen now they have the world's leading image

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model which is great news right so they're going to combine these two things i

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think um their dual architecture allows for like a vision language

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model to work with an alarm which is going to be very cool but i'm

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also curious like how are they going to function with the

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camera ingestion in live time like like we're gonna

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use this camera very differently with maybe it's not to like take pictures but

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maybe it's like to show the llm what we're doing or what we're seeing and then

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it can kind of address things there's a lot of newness is what i'm i guess i'm

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trying to say at and i'm not entirely sure they can pull it off but i'm hoping

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with johnny ive at the helm and again i'm a johnny i fan that he'll be able

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to figure it out and pull it off

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Yeah. And I think I like to, the next thing I'm looking for with these leaks

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is confirmation that Johnny's actually going to be designing this phone.

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It seems like he is. I don't understand why they wouldn't put him and the Love

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From team, I guess the IO team in charge of designing this, but I want to make

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sure it's actually him or if this is actually a hedge against his screenless device is not working.

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So that's going to be an important thing to follow as we get more information.

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the amount that they're going to be able to actually build, you said 30 million

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units is what they're kind of aiming for.

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30 to 40 billion. So assume these costs, $1,000 a piece, which is kind of like a high end phone price.

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to build a new suite of hardware that can compete with Apple?

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Whether or not it actually does a good job, that is TBD.

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But I assume this is probably a nice, really big catalyst for them as they go into IPO season as well.

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And I just can't help but think that that has to play some sort of a role in it.

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with it and they get developer ecosystems for the hardware and you get that hardware moat.

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issue with software. They just can't build the software.

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I don't know. We'll be buying it. We'll certainly be trying to promise you that.

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hat off for a second and talk about like some of the challenges here.

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Like number one, we need to make sure that it actually ships in 2027.

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thing. I know I do, but I'm a fan of AI in general.

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Will the averages, will my mom and sister even be interested in this?

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I think the allure of ChatGPT is good enough. You mentioned bundle subscriptions earlier.

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we're launching a phone and we don't really know what to do with it.

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components that can run AI on device.

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He's spent the last 35 years building Apple's hardware.

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He should be the perfect person to build whatever that new device is.

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going to win this particular battle, but it's interesting.

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heck, they have enough in financing.

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to 80 billion, maybe even more at a $1.3 trillion valuation is the last that

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I've heard on the rumor mill.

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I hope they do. I think if I'm giving my personal take on this,

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I can't imagine, like the amount of love and addiction that everyone has for

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their iPhone is so strong.

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And for open AI to come, especially when I'm flip-flopping, people are flip-flopping between Anthropic.

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We just filmed an episode on Codex when a month ago, we were saying Codex kind of stinks.

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the amount of kind of buy-in that's required to not only commit to open AI,

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but then transfer your phone that you've had for the last 15 years away from

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that with all of your iMessages and your social apps, that is going to be incredibly hard to do.

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the screenless devices, the accessories to the phone, that made sense.

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Compete directly with the phone.

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I feel confident they'll be able to bring it to market.

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Will people be able to buy it? Will people want it? I don't know.

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I don't think that's the case, But we'll see.

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as we uncover this roadmap as detectives.

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EJS, you's had your magnifying glass out recently, going through the job board

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listing, seeing what these companies have been up to. What have you found?

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towards the OpenAI iPhone early next year?

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by this new phone, right?

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the thing? So I was like, well, let me look at the job postings.

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If they're hiring for like, you know, a mobile phone engineer or whatever you

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want to call it directly, then, you know, it's hint, hint, that's probably what they're working on.

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roadmap, OpenAI specifically.

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And I did the same with Anthropics over the next 24 months.

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very similarly aligned in their strategy.

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They're not. They're actually doing two very different things.

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So I looked at OpenAI and I have it displayed up here. I'm not going to walk

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through the specifics, but I'll give you the general idea of what I found.

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So there's around 330 job postings currently live as of today.

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100 got posted in the last week and a half. So OpenAI is really ramping this up.

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Now, as you'd probably expect, 25 to 30 percent of these roles are roughly sitting

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at the point where it's directly for AI-forward engineers.

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different devices, this is where the roles are being hired for.

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kind of surprising, but pretty obvious.

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OpenAI underwent a code red over the last...

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for very compute intense research heavy things.

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They've trimmed a bunch of their other efforts to focus on building the best

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model, specifically the coding model.

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And that is represented in what I'm seeing right now.

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But there's a strategic move that I want to call out here, which is Sam made

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a very big bet about a year ago, which is to go all in on compute.

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Stargate specifically.

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He also made a very big bet three months ago to go all in on coding AI specifically.

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He's treating this like a warlord empire where

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his entire like ancestral lineage depends

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on this so he's not treating this like an enterprise company he's

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not really treating this like he has an IPO coming up in a

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few months he's like going all in it kind of reminds me of Larry Page where

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he was quoted saying we're going to go all in and I'm willing to go bankrupt

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losing this race but I can't afford to lose the race um Sam is approaching this

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in a very similar manner um I don't know if you have any thoughts on OpenAI

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specifically before I move to Anthropik,

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Josh, but like this was like pretty revealing for me.

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Yeah, it seems like as they move forward, their focus is on Stargate and building

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like actual data centers.

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Their focus is on building more efficient code. And then their focus is on these hardware devices.

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And I guess these Johnny Ive devices, the IO devices that are shipping in parallel,

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seems like the timelines are pretty tight.

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And we might even get these before the end of this year. So I think those are

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probably the three pillars, right? It's just like the core software,

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the hardware, and then the infrastructure.

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And notably, missing from this is roles for alignment and safety,

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which seem to be in the minority here, if I'm correct.

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But that's not the case for Anthropic. Is that a correct assessment?

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That is correct. But before we move on to Anthropic, Josh, there is 12% of job

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postings are in another sector.

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Can you guess which sector that is in OpenAI?

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Huh. Hopefully marketing.

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They got to work on that. Think about a recent alliance or agreement that they

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had to sign with a big government entity.

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Oh, is this government work?

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Yeah, 12%. Whoa, interesting. Do you want to know where their second largest employee base is?

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Where? Is this the Pentagon?

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Washington, D.C., dude. Oh, my God. Yeah.

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Wait, that's kind of crazy. Interesting.

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because Sam has been a huge fan of kind of trying to lobby government entities

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or just trying to lobby AI policies in general to become more favorable or AI favorable.

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So it makes sense that he has the largest presence out there.

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And Anthropic specifically doesn't. But yeah, we can move into Anthropic now.

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Okay, yeah, that's interesting. I had no idea. What is Anthropic working on?

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which can kind of fall through.

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And a lot of open roles. Everyone's saying AI is killing jobs,

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but man, these companies are hiring.

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Did you hear the news? So some of the folks listening, Joshua and I are based on the East Coast.

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And in New York specifically, Anthropik is currently about to buy one of the

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largest office spaces that any tech company has ever bought in the most recent couple of years.

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They're about to have a huge presence out here, and they're going to be focusing

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on three specific roles.

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Number two, enterprise-specific. And number three, the finance bros.

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They are going wholeheartedly into the financial services sector,

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and they want every analyst, MD, and fund manager to be using Claude to direct

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all their different workflows.

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I don't know if you saw the news yesterday, Josh, but they just signed a $1.5

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billion joint venture with Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, and I think it's Hellman

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and Freed to basically integrate Claude into every single one of their portfolio companies.

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We're talking about like 250 plus portfolio companies for Blackstone alone.

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And the idea is Anthropics is going to shove a bunch of Anthropic engineers.

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These are costly people, the most valuable people into these enterprises to

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build custom workflows just so that they get hooked on Claude,

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just so they get addicted on the LLMs.

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And then the rest kind of like pays for itself, I guess.

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Okay first where is this building that they're buying i'm so curious i think it's the google.

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Office in chelsea it's like a massive space

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Yeah nice and i definitely see i noticed the shift to move to financial services

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i've seen this a lot with claude recently yes in fact as we were recording this

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they just released an update to a finance for claude basically where they're

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releasing a series of different templates that can do a lot of different things

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as it relates to financial analysis.

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So it does models, it does spreadsheets, it does financial projections,

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it does all the things that you would hope a analyst would do.

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Claude is building these as kind of pre-templatized workflows that are built

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directly into co-work and Claude code.

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So if you want to get evaluation, if you want to get trajectories of pipelines

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or revenues, all that is now done within Claude.

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And I like the shift that we're kind of seeing into the financial services business.

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It's mostly been open since now.

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Perplexity is really the only one that's moved into financial services.

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They've tried that Bloomberg alternative. It's pretty good. But Claude moving

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into this. Yeah, here's the post right here of all the things that they're doing.

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KYC screener, statement and auditor. It's got all the tools, one click plug in,

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So it makes sense that they move to New York, get a little bit closer to Wall

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Street, and start moving into financials. This is, I mean, this is exciting.

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This is really cool, particularly when the market is ripping the way it is.

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Yeah, it's so interesting that, like, both companies, probably at the same time,

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have gone into becoming kind of like a sales and BD-driven business.

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I thought the LLMs would just speak for themselves. But the truth is,

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the technology and power is here. It's just not well enough dispersed,

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and it's not going to diffuse until you handhold the people.

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The blocker right now are humans.

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The blocker is siloed data sets in all of these top enterprises and companies

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that don't really know how to integrate the thing with AI.

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And the AI is not smart enough to know how to integrate itself into it.

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So it's kind of like a chicken and an egg problem, and Anthropic is taking the first step here.

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OpenAI as well, they've signed a similar joint venture with similar companies

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to basically put both of their products at the helm here.

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If we go back to Anthropik in general, the point I want to make around these

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roles is, listen, they have around the similar amount of roles that OpenAI is

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hiring for, but the strategy that they're pursuing here is a bit different.

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They are treating their company as an enterprise services company.

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So they famously or infamously have not bought as much compute as OpenAI.

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As I mentioned, Sam is like the conqueror. He's like, I need all the compute.

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I'll lever it all up. And if it pays off, it pays off. and it is paying off

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because now he can serve his Claude Mythos competitor, GBT 5.5,

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to anyone and everyone. Claude Mythos is still restricted on the Anthropic side.

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Anthropic is being more strategic. Their bread and butter, the majority of the

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money that they have made so far and still,

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I think it's something crazy like 70%, sorry, 60% of their revenue recently

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comes purely from enterprise and they want to clearly seed that reputation and wrap it up even more.

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They are focusing primarily on enterprises, which is why we don't see more of a consumer base.

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You know, We've seen all the crazy social media spread around restrictions on

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rate limits and stuff like that.

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I think that's because they're just focusing wholeheartedly on enterprise customers.

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They don't want to restrict them. I think they have like...

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As of two weeks ago, they have like 500 to 1,000 clients that pay them well

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over one to five million dollars per year.

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If they can ramp that up, that's a lot of ARR, basically.

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And they recently hit, what is it, 44 billion ARR?

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Yeah, pretty good business. And you could start to see the clear divide between

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these two companies as we go through these job boards and the rumor mills where

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OpenAI, they currently have the best image model. They're working on consumer hardware.

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They're building a lot for consumer, although they're working on their kind

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of commercial enterprise segment as well. But Anthropic is all in on enterprise,

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on financial services, on selling to businesses.

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And I think that's why we've seen their ARR go completely nuclear,

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because they're selling much larger ticket items to much more sticky customers

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that are going to stick around and endure 12, 24-month contracts with these

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companies. So it's interesting. It's fascinating.

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The hardware story to me is the most exciting. I cannot wait to get AI-first

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hardware. I hope it's good.

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I hope it's good. Like WWDC from Apple is happening next month,

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where hopefully Siri doesn't suck.

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The first AI first devices are going to be from OpenAI.

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And now the timeline might have moved up a little bit sooner.

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So that news at least is very exciting.

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This has been an investigative review of what is in store.

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I think the prompt for you guys is one, will you use an OpenAI phone?

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Like, will you swap your iPhone for this phone?

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And I know it's tough to tell without actually having it in your hands to see.

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But it seems like such a stretch.

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Josh:
You just, what about you? Any final parting thoughts before we head out for the day?

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Ejaaz:
I want to see the device. I want to see some visuals. You know why I feel this way?

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Like, don't even give me the device. It's that dime advert with Alexander Skarsgård

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or whatever, which, I don't know, turned out to be a fake or a dud or a Chinese pair of earbuds.

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I need something from OpenAI. And they're the only ones that are leading it.

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Josh:
So bad. Well, hopefully we get that before we get... Will we get a better Siri

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before we get an OpenAI hardware device? That's the question.

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Ejaaz:
Who knows? Probably not.

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Josh:
Probably not. But that is the episode for today. Ejos, thank you for all this

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investigative journalism and to the job boards here for giving us some guidance

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on all things OpenAI, all things Anthropic.

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If you enjoyed this video, don't forget to share it with a friend who might

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also enjoy this, who might also be interested in the crazy cool new hardware

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Josh:
leaks that are coming. If you enjoyed, leave a comment down below.

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Josh:
Subscribe on YouTube. Leave us a five-star review on wherever you listen to

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Josh:
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Josh:
And we'll see you guys in the next episode.