
Episode #734
Ep 734: A $10 AI Chip and Dario Amodei's Rare Reply — Aug 18
Open models GLM 5.3 and DeepSeek Harness are closing the frontier AI gap at a fraction of the cost, and a $10 chip proves scale isn't everything. Dario Amodei broke his social media silence to defend Anthropic against fears of monopolistic power. Source episodes: - AI Companies Still Haven’t Delivered on Their Biggest Promises (The AI Daily Brief) https://anchor.fm/s/f7cac464/podcast/play/124357996/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-17%2F430026787-44100-2-a2bcd0db21cc7.mp3 - GLM 5.3: The New Top Open Model! (Prompt Engineering) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6HIoqT__E8 - DeepSeek Harness - Its a Big Deal! (Prompt Engineering) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPO2CwHnfmI - Lasting Impact: Anthropic Revenue Discussion (The Last AI) https://rss.art19.com/episodes/0dee7cfc-a995-4b41-9e63-a77ff0f100e5.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIhJQb2RjYXN0RGlnZXN0BjoGRVQ%3D--1ec9b299b8cc0f02d2ad5931bb42ea21ba11b9e9 - A $10 Chip Is Running a 45M Parameter AI Model (Needle 2) (Better Stack) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M24yg6ZM7-I - Context Engineering in 2026 — Louis-François Bouchard, Omar Solano & Samridhi Vaid, Towards AI (AI Engineer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP3hjUXd918 - Security Firewall for Agents — Ryan Dahl, Deno (AI Engineer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkRYPFIMCSA - GitHub Trending Weekly #41: canvas-ui, openworker, thinking-orbs, no-ai-slop, sticker-forge, justif (Github Awesome) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqL-2KEGqxc - Building Closed-Loop Evals for a Multimodal Agent at Scale — Soumya Gupta & Jai Chopra, Uber (AI Engineer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31GUkCBD-Uc

