Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism

Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a raw, unfiltered conversation about AI's potential, its stakes, and the source of his outspokenness. The interview is part of a major Big Technology profile about Amodei, ft. interviews with more than two dozen of his colleagues, friends, and critics. You can read that story for free here: https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-making-of-dario-amodei

We also cover Mark Zuckerberg's AI talent spending spree, Amodei's rivalry with OpenAI, his response to NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's criticism, the state of the AI scaling laws, and whether there's a risk we'll lose control of the technology.

Tune in for a candid, emotional, and high energy conversation with one of the leaders driving the AI wave today.
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Chapters

3:33 AGI timelines and the exponential case
9:49 Scaling update: diminishing returns, continual learning, new techniques
16:47 Scale & competition: resources, talent wars
20:10 Business model and revenue ramp
27:26 Economics: pricing changes, inference costs & profitability
36:29 Open source vs. hosted frontier models
40:10 Personal background: SF, family, father’s illness
54:15 Governance & safety: “race to the top” and the control debate