AI Industry Check-in: Anthropic Wins Money and Talent, Talk Shifts to Superintelligence
RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-08-23
A blogger surveys the AI industry landscape since November 2025:
- Anthropic is well-funded and attracting talent; OpenAI is losing some people but stays near the top
- Google is finding itself after Demis' DeepMind departure; Meta's Zuckerberg remains an open-AI optimist
- NVIDIA might try to do it all; China has an impressive humanoid industry and good open models
- Discourse has shifted from AGI to Superintelligence; Recursive Self-Improvement is trending and automating scientific discovery is seen as next
- Europe faces a choice between leaning on the US or sticking with open models and limited compute/energy; datacenters may be the issue that unites the general public
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