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Yep, we're talking about Marcus Persson, the Swedish coding king who programmed the world's most successful game, Minecraft, all by himself.

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Today on the AI Daily Brief, a new voice model has everyone chattering about the future of voice agents. And before then in the headlines, Anthropic completes a big new raise that seems for some to be driven by one particular use case. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI.

Today on the AI Daily Brief, a new voice model has everyone chattering about the future of voice agents. And before then in the headlines, Anthropic completes a big new raise that seems for some to be driven by one particular use case. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI.

Today on the AI Daily Brief, a new voice model has everyone chattering about the future of voice agents. And before then in the headlines, Anthropic completes a big new raise that seems for some to be driven by one particular use case. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI.

To join the conversation, follow the Discord link in our show notes. Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief Headlines Edition, all the daily AI news you need in around five minutes. We kick off today with Anthropic's latest raise. It is another monster round. Honestly, at this point, numbers are starting to become meaningless. Every company is raising a gajillion dollars at a Googleplex valuation.

To join the conversation, follow the Discord link in our show notes. Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief Headlines Edition, all the daily AI news you need in around five minutes. We kick off today with Anthropic's latest raise. It is another monster round. Honestly, at this point, numbers are starting to become meaningless. Every company is raising a gajillion dollars at a Googleplex valuation.

To join the conversation, follow the Discord link in our show notes. Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief Headlines Edition, all the daily AI news you need in around five minutes. We kick off today with Anthropic's latest raise. It is another monster round. Honestly, at this point, numbers are starting to become meaningless. Every company is raising a gajillion dollars at a Googleplex valuation.

But this one is interesting to me for a very specific reason, which is the way that at least some of their investors are framing Anthropic's focus.

But this one is interesting to me for a very specific reason, which is the way that at least some of their investors are framing Anthropic's focus.

But this one is interesting to me for a very specific reason, which is the way that at least some of their investors are framing Anthropic's focus.

So first to the details, the company raised $3.5 billion in Series E funding, led by a billion-dollar investment from Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Salesforce, Cisco, Fidelity, General Catalyst, D1, Jane Street, Menlo, and Bessemer all participating.

So first to the details, the company raised $3.5 billion in Series E funding, led by a billion-dollar investment from Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Salesforce, Cisco, Fidelity, General Catalyst, D1, Jane Street, Menlo, and Bessemer all participating.

So first to the details, the company raised $3.5 billion in Series E funding, led by a billion-dollar investment from Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Salesforce, Cisco, Fidelity, General Catalyst, D1, Jane Street, Menlo, and Bessemer all participating.

Anthropic said in the most boilerplate of fundraising text, With this investment, Anthropic will advance its development of next-generation AI systems, expand its compute capacity, deepen its research in mechanistic interpretability and alignment, and accelerate its international expansion.