Jaden Shafer

On the one side, you have kind of this race to consolidate talent and accelerate talent.

technical progress, right?

So Anthropic is going to, with Vercept, acquiring Vercept and their team, they're going to get better at a lot of these computer use things.

But on the other hand, there's a lot of friction that they're seeing right now with the government who's trying to put those into national defense and other areas and Anthropic's kind of pushing back.

Honestly, this reminds me of like Google had a whole spat a while back.

It was kind of a vogue for Google and all their employees to say they didn't want to work with the Department of Defense and they had a big walkout.

And I'm

I can't remember where they're at today, but I feel like they pulled back from the military and then at some point they started working with them again, but I think it was just kind of on their own terms because they wanted the money.

So anyways, it goes back and forth with a lot of these Silicon Valley startups.

But in any case, it feels like we are going to see what happens in the very near future because Anthropic has a deadline.

We'll see if they start working with the US government.

And on the bright side, I'm thrilled that the Vercept team is over at Anthropic right now.

That product, the computer use is gonna get better and that's something I use a lot.

So I'm excited about that.

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