Sam Altman Called Anthropic 'Elitist' and Then Everyone Noticed This

Anthropic spent $7 million on a Super Bowl ad roasting Sam Altman in front of 100 million people. Altman fired back on X, calling Anthropic "elitist" and accusing them of pushing for AI regulation. In 2023, he personally sat in front of Congress and begged them to regulate AI.

Juan and Kate go through Altman's response line by line. They find one argument worth siding with him on (Claude's free tier runs out of tokens fast), one they call flimsy (accusing Anthropic of gatekeeping while OpenAI locked down its own models), and one they can't let slide (the regulation flip). They also get into why only 5% of ChatGPT users pay the $20 subscription, what that means for the coming ad war, and their spiciest take: Google probably wins anyway, not because of the ad, but because it already owns enterprise.

When two AI companies that share the same founding DNA start buying Super Bowl slots to roast each other, who actually benefits?

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Anthropic Spent $7M at the Super Bowl to Roast OpenAI

01:23 Anthropic's Founders Left OpenAI. Here's the Fallout.

02:45 Every AI Super Bowl Ad, Ranked

04:57 Is OpenAI the Next Netscape?

06:29 Only 5% of ChatGPT Users Pay. So Where's the Money?

08:21 We Read Sam Altman's Response. It Gets Weird.

11:00 Altman Begged Congress for Regulation. Then Called It Elitist.

11:44 The One Thing Anthropic's Ad Got Wrong

14:04 Why Google Probably Wins the AI Race