Replit Drops Anthropic, Amazon’s Bee AI & Tesla’s “Flying” Roadster

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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 gonna 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 gonna be spending the money on and the direction of the AI industry, along with all of this new stuff. So if you wanna 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 Vercell's fastest adopted AI model ever. I'm gonna explain a little bit about what JEV does and why that's a big deal. Amazon is introducing two new AI products from B. They have B Frontier and B Eclipse. I've roasted the B devices in the past. I'm going to tell you a little bit about the new B 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 cloud 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. 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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 of 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 vibe coded 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 max 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 Cowork, ChatGPT Cowork or Claude Cowork, I'm finding that Cowork 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 GrockBots, 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, you know, some blog posts from September were saying Anthropics, Fable 5 and Claude Fable 5.1 were helping Replit's agents run. So I don't think they're like 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 gonna, you know, 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. But 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. So as a company, I think they're growing a lot and seeing a lot of value from all of the vibe coding that's going on right now. And it's interesting that Chai LGBT is what is powering that at the moment. Okay, I just had to share a meme that I saw if you're watching on video on app, as you can see video now on Spotify, of course, but there's a there's a meme because yesterday Elon Musk unveiled the new self, not self driving Roadster. He said this is one of the very last vehicles that Tesla will ever make that is not going to be self driving. And the reason is because this vehicle flies the new Roadster has rocket thrusters on the bottom, which when I first saw I was like, Oh, no, this is going to like burn holes in the road. It's like a rocket. But it's actually just compressed air tanks and from this compressed air tank, the entire car can shoot in the sky, fly forward, land, do flips. It's very wild. This is the most it's the craziest thing I've ever seen.