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A preview of “Tectonic” (Financial Times) season on the competition among major AI labs—OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google—covering who will lead in AI and potentially control the future of AGI.
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AI is expected to be the most important technology in “our lifetimes,” with AGI described as the most important technology ever invented; companies are racing to release models quickly and are spending billions on frontier models, customers, investors, computing power, and AI talent.
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“Charged GPT” is cited as an example of unusually fast company growth.
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0:00Murad Ahmed: Who will win Silicon Valley's battle of the AI labs? I have never seen growth in any company like the growth of Charged GPT. AI is going to be the most important technology in our lifetimes. Everyone is competing to like get things out as fast as possible. AGI is the most important technology probably that's ever going to be invented. I'm Murad Ahmed and in a new season of Tectonic, I'll be looking at the handful of companies from OpenAI and Anthropic to Meta and Google, vying to lead the world in artificial intelligence. They're spending billions of dollars building models that push back the frontiers of AI, fighting over customers, investors, computing power, and sought-after AI talent.
0:43Murad Ahmed: Who will come out on top? Who will control our AI future? That's in the next season of Tectonic from the Financial Times, coming soon.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Deepmind, xAI and Meta - all of them are building models to push the frontiers of artificial intelligence, and all of them want to be the world’s leading AI company. Who will come out on top?
With the help of the FT’s expert reporters, technology news editor Murad Ahmed explores the battles going on between Silicon Valley’s frontier AI labs, and the personal rivalries driving them.
Who will win out in the bitter rivalry between OpenAI and Anthropic? Can Elon Musk’s xAI or Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta catch up? Or is Google Deepmind destined to control our AI future?
FT articles free to read:
Anthropic’s Mythos AI model tests limits of global cyber defences
OpenAI investors question $852bn valuation as strategy shifts
DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis warns AI investment looks ‘bubble-like’
Meta releases first AI model since Zuckerberg’s spending spree
How Elon Musk’s Grok spread sexual deepfakes and child exploitation images
Tech Tonic is hosted by Murad Ahmed and produced by Edwin Lane. Sound design by Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.
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