20VC: Meta's Muse Hits No. 1. ChatGPT Finally Has a Rival | Menlo Sounds the AI Bubble Alarm | Factory Triples Its Valuation to $5 Billion | Keith Rabois vs Airwallex: Who is Right? | Crusoe's $3.9 Billion Round. Is the Data Centre Trade Overheating?
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Why did Anthropic push its $2 trillion IPO to a later date and what does it signal for the AI boom?
It's the first real ChatGPT competitor. Anthropic never really cared about Claude until recently. Amuses many things. It's one of the best pieces of software I've used ever. But it's also a Trojan horse to fight ChatGPT because the LM's pretty good. They've trained on all of our data. Every YouTube, every piece of open source, every piece of Claude's source. Of course they're going to train on your data. Give me a break. There is a zero probability AI will destroy
all of
humanity. I love the quiet compounders.
There's just no market for them anymore. Coding is the motherlode. It's everything.
This is 20 VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and it's the show that we all fricking wait for, let's be honest. Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll, the biggest news in tech. What is going down this week? Anthropic baby. They pushed the IPO a la poubelle. We have to wait longer. Maybe it's November. Then we have Meta. Alex Wang is delivering the goods. Muse holds number one spot on the App Store. They are crushing and handing it to Instinct. Maybe the AI Assistant race really is on. Then we have ChatGPT Inventor shipping Jev, one of the most popular tools today, becoming Vercel's fastest ever launch. Then we have Lampkin's Deep Dive, with the IC that is Jason Lemkin? Do we put money into Legora at 11 billion? Do we do Crusoe at a $30 billion price?
And then do we do Factory at a $5 billion price? Finally, Airwallex versus Keith Raboy. This show goes on and why Sidney Sweeney should come out as the ambassador for Airwallex. But before we dive into the show today, You have the idea, but with most AI tools, you hit a wall. The setup, the config, the gap between what you pictured and what you actually ship. Well, Base44 is where that wall disappears. You describe it? Yeah, Base44 builds it. Apps, websites, AI agents, real working products built in minutes using nothing but plain language. And it's all batteries included. The backend, the database, the authentication, the hosting, the heavy lifting is handled. So you just really stay in the flow. This doesn't just take the busy work off your plate, but it gives you an advantage and pushes you past what you thought you could build alone.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did Anthropic push its $2 trillion IPO to a later date and what does it signal for the AI boom?
0:00–11:00
2
Is OpenAI’s projected $278 billion cash burn by 2028 a red flag for investors?
11:00–20:30
3
How did Meta’s Muse climb to #1 on the App Store and can it become a real ChatGPT rival?
20:30–30:01
4
Why is Amazon blocking AI shopping agents while Shopify is embracing them?
30:01–40:37
5
What makes the ChatGPT‑inventor’s Jev launch Vercel’s fastest ever release?
40:37–49:55
6
Does a $40 million seed round mean traditional seed investing is dead?
49:55–1:00:55
7
What’s behind Menlo’s AI bubble alarm and why does Harry think it’s BS?
1:00:55–1:11:16
8
Is Factory’s $5 billion valuation justified and is the data‑centre trade overheating?
1:11:16–1:20:33
Speakers
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