#251 - Mythos Back, Sonnet 5, Etched, LongCat
Summary
Hosts Andrei Kurenkov and Jeremy Harris discuss the US government lifting restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 model after new safety classifiers were added, while OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 remains delayed. They analyze Anthropic’s new Claude Sonnet 5, Etched’s successful chip tape-out, and Baidu’s AI chip unit targeting a massive IPO. The episode also covers Agility Robotics’ SPAC merger and DeepSeek’s significant hiring expansion in China.
Topics discussed
Intro, hosts, and Cisco sponsorship on AI safety
Trump lifts Anthropic restrictions and US AI policy
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 release and benchmarks
Etched AI chip startup and infrastructure news
Chinese AI IPOs: Biren, Agility Robotics, and DeepSeek
DeepSeek V3 technical deep dive and sparse attention
Pricing pressure from Chinese models on Western AI
New benchmarks for AI agents and coding tasks
Supermicro indictment and AI chip export controls
Synthetic data generation and reinforcement learning
AI in film, music streaming, and episode wrap-up
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