Opus 4.7: Anthropic's Recent Launch Insights

**Jaden Schaefer** (0:00)
Welcome to the podcast, I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the show, Anthropic has just announced Opus 4.7, the latest model, and there's a lot of craziness that is coming, it's officially live, and I've been testing it all day. After that, there is a startup called Antioch that just raised $8.5 million to do for physical AI what Cursor did for software development. It's basically a simulation to real play for robotics, and I think the framing they're using is super smart, so I wanna get into all of that. Then, and this one I think is also really interesting, there is a company called Upscale AI. It's reportedly in talks to raise a $2 billion valuation round. It's only seven months old. There is no product yet, and I think what that tells us about AI infrastructure investments right now is definitely really important to understand. And then of course we have the fact that Google Cloud and Avid just announced a multi-year partnership to bring Gemini AI Cloud directly into the tools that professional media and video editors are using every day. So we're going to get into what that actually means. Google also dropped an annual ad safety report, which inside of it they showed that they blocked 8.3 billion ads last year using their AI-powered enforcement. And the way that they did it, I think, is a big shift in how this kind of automation enforcement is working. We'll go over the numbers of before. If you're trying to keep up with everything happening in AI right now, one of the most practical things you can do is get access to more than one model. I think the problem is if you're subscribing to everything separately, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, whatever it is, you're looking at $20 on basically all of them, and it can stack up very fast. AI Box is my own software platform. It's how I solve this. It's one subscription. It's $8.99 a month, and you get access to over 80 AI models in one place. So Gemini, Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, 11 Labs for audio, all of the top image models, VO3 for video, Sora for video, all of the top models in one place. So what I keep coming back to on top of all of that is that we built an automation builder. You describe a tool or a workflow that you want in plain English. You don't have to be a developer. I am not a developer. It will build it all for you. And this has saved me so much time. And I think for a lot of people that are running any kind of team or even a solo operation, this is one of the best ways I recommend people automate the tasks you do to give yourself more time. There's a link in the description to AI box.ai. I hope you love it as much as I do. All right. The first thing I want to talk about is this Avid and Google Cloud story. So they have announced today that they're entering a multi-year strategic partnership to embed Google Gemini models and Vertex AI into Avid's core tools. So if you're not deep in the media world, Avid is basically, I think, the backbone of how a lot of professional video and audio productions are functioning today. Film studios, news organizations, post-production houses. There's just a huge chunk of the industry that basically runs on Avid. So this isn't like a niche software company. When Avid is doing something, the professional media world is basically coming along with it. So I think the vision of these AI-assisted production workflows, you have intelligent content search that's happening across these massive media libraries. You have automated tagging, transcription, scene analysis. I think it's a lot of the time-consuming work that currently takes human editors hours to do manually. What's interesting to me with this story is less the specific technology and it's more about who the customers are. Because they're basically targeting professional creatives. So editors, producers, cinematographers. All of these people have historically been, I would say, pretty resistant to automation. And maybe there's some good reason, right? Craft is kind of part of their job. So I think watching how this actually lands with some of these people using the tool is going to be really interesting. A Google Cloud partnership is easy to announce, but actually getting all of these, you know, seasoned film editors to trust AI when they've been doing, you know, this their entire life without AI is going to be a different conversation. I'm going to be watching what kind of feedback looks like after they kind of make a big announcement here at NAB soon. OK, the next thing I want to talk about is Antioch. So this is a startup that has raised $8.5 million today. This is their seed round.