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Eric Schmidt's $80 Billion Anthropic Bet

Tech Brew Ride Home

Published
October 20, 2026
Duration
22:35
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Last updated
Oct 21, 2026

Discusses llm, anthropic, inference.

Summary

DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, its internal inference stack. Inception’s diffusion LLM Mercury 3 claimed 4x to 8x speed over Haiku 5.5. Spotify launched paid podcast memberships, and Eric Schmidt’s 1% Anthropic stake looked set for a massive IPO windfall. DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, its internal production stack designed to accelerate inference, op…

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DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, its internal inference stack. Inception’s diffusion LLM Mercury 3 claimed 4x to 8x speed over Haiku 5.5. Spotify launched paid podcast memberships, and Eric Schmidt’s 1% Anthropic stake looked set for a massive IPO windfall. DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, its internal production stack designed to accelerate inference, optimize chip performance, and reduce energy and compute costs (Bloomberg) Inception debuts Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM that it says tops GPT-6 Lu

Themes

  • llm
  • anthropic
  • inference
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