294: Ding: Chime is Dead

294: Ding: Chime is Dead

Author: Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn | Cloud Computing & AI News March 7, 2025 Duration: 1:01:25

Welcome to episode 294 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy!Ilya Boy, do we have a news packed week for you! Sutskever raised $30B without a product, Mira Murati launched her own AI lab, and Claude 3.7 now thinks before it speaks. Meanwhile, Microsoft casually invented new matter for quantum computing, Google built an AI scientist, and AWS killed Chime (RIP). At this rate, AI is either going to save the world or speedrun becoming Ultron. Let’s all find out together – today on The Cloud Pod! 

Titles we almost went with this week:

  • Ding – Chime is Dead
  • Does your container really need 192 cores
  • Quantum is the new AI
  • AI is now IN the robots

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02:41 Ilya Sutskever’s Startup in Talks to Raise Financing at $30 Billion Valuation

  • It’s been a minute since we talked about former OpenAI executives and what they’re up to. 
  • Let’s start with Ilya Sutskever and Mira Murati, post Open AI career
  • The Information reports that Ilya Suskevers’ startup “Safe Superintelligence” is in talks to raise $1Billion in a round that would value the startup at $30 Billion.  
  • The company has yet to release a product, but based on the name we can guess what they’re working on…

03:22 Ryan – “It’s so nuts to me that they can raise that much without – really just an idea. Doesn’t have to have any proof or POC…”

07:07 Murati Joins Crowded AI Startup Sector

  • Mira Murati confirmed one of the worst kept secrets in AI, by revealing her lab Thinking Machine Labs
  • Murati has lured away two thirds of her team from OpenAI. 
  • We’ll be waiting to see how the funding goes for this one. 

08:02 Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

  • Anthropic is releasing their latest model Claude 3.7 Sonnet, their most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model on the market.  
  • Claude 3.7 sonnet can produce near instant responses or extended, step by step thinning that is made visible to the user.  
  • API users also have fine grained control over how long the model can think for. 
  • Claude

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