ROUNDUP: Anthropic Pays Elon $45B, SpaceX Files $1.75T IPO, Claude Mythos Hacks Apple

SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs: AI's Reckoning

SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic have all filed for their upcoming IPOs. This speaks pretty heavily to the scale of projectedAI capital spending. We also cover changing index rules, the size of the raises compared with past market cycles, and Anthropic’s revenue growth and business case. ------ 🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️ NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/ FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFT SPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQ APPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890 RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/ ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 IPOs and AI Spending Surge 1:30 SpaceX Leads the Filing Rush 3:39 Index Rules Bend for IPOs 7:13 Anthropic’s Explosive Growth 12:24 Google Raises War Chest 17:52 OpenAI Joins the Race 19:26 Physical Limits on AI Buildout 22:54 Robotics and Orbital Data Centers 23:30 Which IPOs Excite Them Most 26:36 Closing Thoughts and Wrap-Up ------ RESOURCES Josh: https://x.com/JoshKale Ejaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213 ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

Dell's Comeback is the Perfect AI Case Study

We discuss Dell’s incredibly impressive price action rally, after its focus on AI infrastructure, and NVIDIA’s latest hardware announcements. We also cover the push toward local and private AI use, along with Dell’s earnings and strong AI server sales. ------ 🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️ NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/ FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFT SPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQ APPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890 RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/ ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Dell’s AI Comeback 1:34 Private to Public 2:18 Picks and Shovels 4:19 Vera Rubin Goes Live 7:02 AI on Your Desktop 10:16 The New Laptop War 13:01 Open Source Strategy 16:10 The Bubble Landscape 19:02 Trump's Involvement 22:24 Why Dell Matters 26:09 Consumer AI Hardware ------ RESOURCES Josh: https://x.com/JoshKale Ejaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213 ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

THIS WEEK IN AI: Pope Approves Anthropic, Comparing AI Plans, Starcloud SpaceX Partnership

We need to discuss Meta’s new subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and AI. Then we'll compare them with offerings from Google, Claude, ChatGPT, and X. Can Meta justify its AI spending? If not, what possible fallback strategies can they lean on? We also explore StarCloud’s planned orbital data center, Cognition’s funding round, a new agentic coding benchmark, Pope Leo’s AI manifesto, and Snowflake’s post-earnings stock jump. ------ 🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️ NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/ FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFT SPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQ APPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890 RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/ ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Meta’s New AI Subscriptions 2:51 Comparing Subscription Tiers 9:23 Meta’s Revenue Pressure 10:30 SpaceX Goes Orbital AI 13:42 Cognition's Big Raise 15:37 The AI Pope 18:37 New Benchmarks, New Winners 20:30 Snowflake’s SaaS Comeback ------ RESOURCES Josh: https://x.com/JoshKale Ejaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213 ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

How Gavin Baker Invests in AI, and Where the Bubble is Going Next

In this episode, we discuss Gavin Baker’s view that AI is a super cycle, with the biggest opportunities in infrastructure, chips, memory, and power rather than software.  It's interesting to pit him against Leopold Aschenbrenner, who has taken a higher octane approach to similar overarching theses.  Gavin's portfolio includes Astera Labs, Cerebras, NVIDIA, Micron, and Unity Software. DYOR! ------ 🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️ NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/ FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFT SPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQ APPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890 RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/ ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 AI Infrastructure Thesis 1:47 Gavin’s Track Record 2:57 Bottlenecks in Chips 5:26 Unity and World Models 7:40 Inference 11:20 Four AI Constraints 17:35 Energy and Space Compute 19:08 This Isn’t Dot-Com 24:10 Supply Constraints 26:06 Conclusion ------ RESOURCES Josh: https://x.com/JoshKale Ejaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213 ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

Encouraging Athletes to Take Steroids: Bryan Johnson's Enhanced Games

In this episode, we discuss the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas, where athletes were allowed to use performance-enhancing drugs under medical supervision, including the event format, prizes, and rules.  We also highlight a new world record swim in the men’s 50-meter freestyle, other event winners, and the mixed results for enhanced versus natural athletes. Finally, we look at the event’s business side and its connection to biotech, AI, and future enhancement and medicine. ------ 🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️ NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/ FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFT SPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQ APPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890 RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/ ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Enhanced Games Unveiled 2:58 Can Drugs Break Records? 5:34 Rules, Stacks, Side Effects 7:59 Ethics Of Enhancement 9:47 Natural Winners 14:12 The Business 17:35 Biotech Acceleration 21:31 What It Means For Sports ------ RESOURCES Josh: https://x.com/JoshKale Ejaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213 ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠