Google Antitrust, Anthropic's $183B leap and are we in the AI winter?

Are browsers the right entry point for AI tools? In episode 71 of Mixture of Experts, guest host Bryan Casey is joined by Gabe Goodhart, Kaoutar El Maghraoui and Mihai Criveti to talk about the verdict in the Google antitrust case and what it means for agentic AI. Next, as Anthropic raised  $13 billion in a recent funding round, bringing its valuation to $183 billion, we discuss investment in AI startups. Finally, the discourse on GPT-5 and AI model innovation created “AI winter.” What does this mean for the future of AI innovation? All that and more on today’s Mixture of Experts. 

00:00 – Intro 

1:38 – Safer GPT, IBM and AMD, Amazon Lens Live and AI and Starbucks 

2:59 – Google antitrust 

27:08 – Anthropic and AI valuation 

41:42 – AI winter 

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