Oct 6, 2026 · 27 min · 9 segments
Anthropic pitched itself as the responsible, safety-first alternative in the AI race, but a leaked IPO filing reveals the financial and operational reality behind closed doors. In this episode of What…
Annie DelgadoHost
It, it's kind of built on the OpenClau foundation, and all of these agents kind of, I think, are modeled more or less after that big OpenClau moment that people may remember, this kind of open source software that you could download and give access to your computer, and it would just run stuff in the background and do things for you.
That exploded, and then of course I haven't really heard or thought about it in, in a long time, so it had its moment.
But I think all the labs started going, "Hmm, that seems like a really good idea.
Microsoft's real advantage here, I think, is just two things, and we'll see if they matter.
They're already in all these businesses, so if you want to use an agent for work, like you've already got a deal with Microsoft, they're gonna charge you a little more for this, but it's there.
... "Please access my Google data," and I'm like, "Where is Google's agent that can access my Google data?" But, you know, they need access to data, and Microsoft has data, so that's a pretty big advantage for them from a work point of view, that it's just sitting there, um, ready to integrate with all the stuff you're already doing
Pretty nice, and I mean, we talked about this for, um, for some of this, but like the liability, like I mean-
It, it's kind of built on the OpenClau foundation, and all of these agents kind of, I think, are modeled more or less after that big OpenClau moment that people may remember, this kind of open source software that you could download and give access to your computer, and it would just run stuff in the background and do things for you.
That exploded, and then of course I haven't really heard or thought about it in, in a long time, so it had its moment.
But I think all the labs started going, "Hmm, that seems like a really good idea.
Microsoft's real advantage here, I think, is just two things, and we'll see if they matter.
They're already in all these businesses, so if you want to use an agent for work, like you've already got a deal with Microsoft, they're gonna charge you a little more for this, but it's there.
... "Please access my Google data," and I'm like, "Where is Google's agent that can access my Google data?" But, you know, they need access to data, and Microsoft has data, so that's a pretty big advantage for them from a work point of view, that it's just sitting there, um, ready to integrate with all the stuff you're already doing
Pretty nice, and I mean, we talked about this for, um, for some of this, but like the liability, like I mean-
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