As part of a longer conversation, i asked chatgpt when GPT5-level capabilities will be cheap enough to include in gift cards, throwaway plastic toys, etc. Answer was 2030-35. https://chatgpt.com/share/68b8ac92-ad28-8008-b2f4-5b1d777558... ... conversation went on to envision a future where trillions of discarded full-gpt5 chips litter landfills and fungi learn to power them up and incorporate their knowledge into their biome, but you can just ignore that part

Very happy for them - curious if the funding will help with the current capacity issues.

5 minutes into my first opus prompt on Claude Code on an empty repo, I've already been warned by Claude Code that I'm about to hit my opus limit despite not using it in 12 days.

Interesting that investors pay so many billions for a product that just iterates until something, somehow compiles but emits subtle garbage.

Intellectual engagement goes down, users get dumber and only look at quantity. China is taking first steps to continue its excellence. In the New York Post of all places:

https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/china-restricts-ai-...

"It’s just one of the ways China protects their youth, while we feed ours into the jaws of Big Tech in the name of progress."

>Along with ICONIQ, the round was co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Iconiq (Mark Zuckerberg's family office) was one of the lead investors in the round

Maybe these labs should consider funding specific models, and funneling returns back to investors from profits made with those models. Like the film industry.

Valuations are high, but it's also the first time in history when developers are spending $200 per month on tools and feeling they are getting great value out of them.

I think one key question is can Anthropic replicate this on some other segment. Like with people working with financials.

Ironic timing considering their service has never performed so poorly as it is currently. One look at their subreddit paints a bleak picture at the moment, and is a far cry from a time when they were the AI darling.

I don't even know what this means.

What a fantastic amount of money flying around though, to support my inane queries to Claude.

Enron was worth $60B - $100B once.

well i really hope they will use some of this money to compete with codex and release something quick

chat gpt 5 in codex is really good

so much that i stopped used claude code altogether

cheaper too

made me realize nobody has moat, coders especially will just go to whoever provides best bang for their buck.