Replit Drops Anthropic, Amazon’s Bee AI & Tesla’s “Flying” Roadster
ChatGPT Podcast
October 17, 2026
In this episode, we cover Replit's decision to discontinue its partnership with Anthropic and the launch of Amazon's new Bee personal AI devices. Additionally, we explore Tesla's recent demonstration of its new Roadster and clarify why this vehicle is not designed for self-driving capabilities.
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If you want to get access to this episode and my next 30 episodes, all ad free, so there'll be no ads on them, go check out my podcast, AI Chat. You can go search for that on Spotify or Apple, it's AI Chat. I'm going to post all of these news episodes, and I'm also posting interviews, like I just interviewed the CEO of Cohere. They've raised over a billion dollars for their AI model, talking about what they're going to be spending the money on and the direction of the AI industry, along with all of this new stuff. So if you want to go check it out with no ads for free, it is AI Chat. Welcome to the podcast. Replit says that they are no longer working with Anthropic. We have a brand new self-driving, or I guess the lack of a self-driving car coming out of Tesla with their new flying Roadster. And I think there's actually some interesting implications for AI and self-driving cars that Elon said while unveiling all of this. JEV is apparently Versailles' fastest adopted AI model ever. I'm going to explain a little bit about what JEV does and why that's a big deal. Amazon is introducing two new AI products from BE. They have BE Frontier and BE Eclipse. I've roasted the BE devices in the past. I'm going to tell you a little bit about the new BE devices, how they work and what they do. And then we have the Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, that is worrying everyone about an AI shock for the economy. And he says that he is promising that he's going to continue battling inflation despite that. Then we have a couple of funny memes over on X we're going to get into. But before we do, I wanted to mention, if you want to get access to over a hundred different AI models inside of ChatGPT or inside of Claude or inside of Gemini or wherever you whatever your main workstation is for AI, I would love for you to check out the AI Box MCP. It's a connector that basically brings in all the other AI models wherever you work. So with something like Claude, you get access to image generation from ChatGPT, you get access to video generation from Google, you get access to audio generation from 11 labs or vice versa in all of those environments, you get access to all of the different AI models. So 100 different AI models, it starts $8.99 a month. And I think we have even disk accounts to make it cheaper for annual plans. And if you need more tokens, we do that. I recently had a project where I was able to generate over 1200 images for a website and saw the traffic explode because these were images that were assets for something in particular. So anyways, if you're interested in getting access to all of these different tools and being able to chat with 100 different AI models in one place, go check out aibox.ai. I'll leave a link to it in the description. All right, we're going to kick off with a little bit of drama here. And I don't know if this is real drama, but basically the CEO of Replit said that they're no longer working with Anthropic. And he said it comes down to a couple different things. This is the quote from him. He said, I think ChatGPT is better now. He said that they are using internal benchmarks to help assess metrics like performance. He said, we publish a public benchmark as well, and consistently Sol and Astra perform better on public or on building VibeCoded applications from scratch. It was a decision based on both costs, partnership and performance. And for all of these reasons, we just felt like they were a better partner for now. I'm going to be honest, as someone that has both the Mac subscriptions for Claude and for ChatGPT, I find myself using ChatGPT much more right now. Probably for the last six months, it was Claude before that. And I think especially once you start using things like Co-Work, ChatGPT Co-Work or Claude Co-Work, I'm finding that Co-Work or ChatGPT Work is better than Claude's offering there. And I know there's a bunch of different tools. We got Muse, we got GrokBots, we got I'm sure Google's working on something. But right now, ChatGPT is the winner. So I'm not surprised by all of this. There is some blog posts from September that were saying Anthropics, Fable 5 and Claude Fable 5.1 were helping Replit's agents run. So I don't think they're completely detached from them. But I think he's just making a statement saying, look, this is the main model that we're using to power a lot of what's going on. I don't think this means they're completely cutting it off. As far as the growth of his company, one thing that's interesting, if you've been following Replit for a long time, he said that they're not sharing their ARR numbers right now for growth. He said that Enterprise was 2% of revenue last year, and this year is about 15% of revenue, and then it's more than 50% of the revenue total is coming from B2B.
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