Anthropic's Leaked Deck Predicts 2026 as the Last Window to Catch Up in AI
imjustnewatai · x · 2026-08-13
Referencing Anthropic's leaked 2023 fundraising deck, the author highlights a stark prediction: companies training the best 2025/26 models will become "too far ahead for anyone to catch up in subsequent cycles."
If true, Google, xAI, Meta, and Chinese labs have a narrowing window to compete for the top spot. Google has already started its most ambitious pretraining run for Gemini 4, leveraging its proprietary TPUs, DeepMind, and massive product ecosystem. Meanwhile, xAI's Grok 4.6 has reportedly tied with GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis index, backed by the rapidly expanding Colossus cluster aiming for a million GPUs.
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