AI companies ultimate goal (not what you think)

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The video effectively uses a compelling narrative about AI companies' ultimate goals, framing them as competitors to entire businesses rather than just individual jobs. This is supported by clear examples and a breakdown of a strategic 'playbook,' making complex information accessible and engaging for a broad audience.

Summary

The video explains that AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are not just aiming to take individual jobs, but entire companies. They achieve this by selling AI models and engineers to businesses, integrating into core workflows, learning what AI can do, and then building competing products. This strategy is driven by the need to avoid a price race to the bottom and enter more profitable industries.

Structure

1AI companies' true goal: not jobs, but companies.
2Examples of Anthropic and OpenAI's strategy: partnerships and product launches.
3The master plan: sell models, embed engineers, learn workflows, build competing products.
4The meaning of general intelligence and its application across industries.
5Barriers to AI adoption: technical limitations and locked data.

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AI companies aren’t coming only for your job. They are coming for your company. They’re learning the workflows that make your company valuable and turning those capabilities into products of their own. The playbook: 1. Sell models and embed engineers with major customers. 2. Plug into their most valuable workflows. 3. Learn which parts AI can perform. 4. Package those capabilities into competing products. Why? Selling models is becoming a commodity business. Open models keep pushing prices down while compute, data-center, and talent costs keep rising. Only two barriers remain: technical limitations, which are improving fast, and the private data companies still control. That data may be one of their last real defenses. Comment “newsletter” and I’ll send you my Sunday deep dive #aibusinessmodel #opensource #futureofwork

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AI companies ultimate goal (not what you think) THIS IS THE REAL OPEN AI AND ANTHROPIC PLAYBOOK AND ANTHROPIC PLAYBOOK not the real target YOU THINK THAT THEY'RE COMING FOR YOUR JOB BUT THEY'RE NOT THEY'RE COMING FOR YOUR COMPANY LET ME SHOW YOU SOME EVIDENCE ANTHROPIC PARTNERED WITH NOVO NORDISK TO SPEED UP DRUG DISCOVERY AND NOW LO AND BEHOLD ANTHROPIC WANTS TO DEVELOP ITS OWN DRUGS THING WITH FIGMA LEGAL STARTUP HARVEY 1ST ANTHROPIC PARTNERED THEN IT LAUNCH ITS OWN PRODUCTS CLAUDE DESIGN AND CLAUDE FOR LEGAL OPENAI IS DOING THE SAME THING MICROSOFT INVESTED BILLIONS AND NOW OPEN A JOB PLATFORM TO COMPETE WITH LINKEDIN AND EVEN AN ALTERNATIVE TO GITHUB COMPANIES THINK THAT AN AI PROVIDER BUT IN REALITY A COMPETITOR LURKING IN THE SHADOWS JUST WAITING TO HAVE ENOUGH DATA AND CAPABILITIES TO REPLACE THEM THIS IS THEIR MASTER PLAN 1 SELL MODELS + SEND ENGINEERS AI MODEL 2 PLUG INTO CORE WORKFLOWS 3 LEARN WHAT AI CAN DO 4 BUILD THEIR OWN PRODUCTS SELL MODELS TO BUSINESSES AND SEND FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEERS TO THE BIGGEST CUSTOMERS PLUG THEIR MODELS INTO COMPANY'S MOST VALUABLE WORKFLOWS LEARN WHICH PART OF THE WORK CAN AI PERFORM AND FINALLY BUILD YOUR OWN VERSION IS IS THE MEANING OF GENERAL INTELLIGENCE ONE SYSTEM, MANY JOBS SYSTEM THAT IS INTELLIGENT AND CAPABLE ENOUGH TO TAKE OVER TASKS ACROSS MANY INDUSTRIES IS IF THEY DON'T WANT TO FAIL AI COMPANIES HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO ADOPT THIS STRATEGY SELLING ACCESS TO INTELLIGENCE IS A RACE TO THE BOTTOM WITH CHINA OPEN SOURCING CAPABLE MODELS ARE TRYING TO PROFITABLE INDUSTRIES WHAT'S SLOWING THEM DOWN? 1 TECHNICAL LIMITS 85% DATA STILL LOCKED AWAY FOR NOW ONLY TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS 2 PRIVATE INDUSTRY STILL LOCKED AWAY the only two barriers THAT SOME COMPANIES STILL KEEP THEIR DATA LOCKED AWAY AND IF THEY WANT TO SURVIVE THEY HAVE TO KEEP IT THAT WAY AND START USING OPEN SOURCE MODELS IF YOU ENJOYED THIS TYPE OF ANALYSIS MY NEWSLETTER I SEND THIS KIND OF BREAKDOWNS EVERY SUNDAY COMMENT A NEWSLETTER SEND IT TO YOU