u/Healthy-Challenge911

this happened literally today ,andrej karpathy one of the most respected ai researchers alive nd the guy whose youtube lectures taught half the developers in this sub how neural networks work, just announced he is joining anthropic's pre training team.

He's the 3rd senior openai figure to defect to anthropic in under two years. Jan leike left in may 2024, John schulman (co-founder) left in august 2024 and now karpathy.

He is joining the pre training team under nick josef and building a new team focused on using claude to accelerate pre training research which means Anthropic is betting that claude can help make itself smarter, thats recursive self improvement with one of the most capable researchers in the world leading it.

The musk trial verdict came in yesterday with the jury ruling in altman's favor, karpathy announces today voilaa . The timing is either coincidental or the most savage talent acquisition move in tech history.

I hv been watching this trajectory while building my own workflows on claude ,every month the ecosystem around claude gets stronger. The connectors mean claude orchestrates professional creative tools natively, the api means platforms like magic hour and kling can plug video generation capabilities into claude powered pipelines, the finance templates mean entire industry workflows run through claude and now the guy who built tesla's self driving stack is making the pre training better.

Polymarket gives anthropic 67.5% chance of going public before openai and i too think its ipo will be more successfull than openai

what's everyone's read on what karpathy specifically brings to claude's pre training?

Couldn't really find it,most of what's out there is press release language or token price commentary, neither of which tells me if the liquidity is sticky or if it's farmers waiting for the next chain.

So genuine question for anyone whos actually on katana or providing liquidity on Sushi there ,what's the lp experience like, what are fees doing, and is there organic swap demand or is volume mostly aggregator routing?

Not trying to make a thesis post, I just can't tell from the outside and figured someone here would actually know.

I run a small b2b services company and i've been obsessively tracking what it actually costs to run a real marketing operation,twelve months ago versus today the difference is almost hard to believe

Twelve months ago our marketing cost:

agency managing our meta ads: $3,000/mo

separate outbound tools (apollo + instantly + dialer + linkedin): $380/mo for two seats

freelance video person for ad creative: $1,500/mo

my time on reporting and coordination: roughly 15 hours/mo

total: roughly $5,000/mo plus my time

today:

Fuseai for outbound (data + sequences + dialer + linkedin + warmup all in one): $238/mo for two seats

Magichour, Kling, for ad creative production (face swap + lip sync + video gen): one subscription replacing three separate tools and the freelancer

Meta ads ai connectors (just launched in open beta): I now manage our meta campaigns through claude instead of paying an agency so campaign creation, reporting, optimization all through conversation

Total: roughly $400/mo and less of my time because the AI tools handle the repetitive work faster than coordinating with an agency and freelancer did

The results aren't identical to what the agency and freelancer produced as the agency's creative strategy was more sophisticated and their audience targeting reflected years of pattern recognition that AI agents don't have yet. The freelancer's video work had a human polish that ai creative tools approximate but don't quite match but for a business our size doing 30k/mo in revenue, 80% of the output at 8% of the cost is a tradeoff i'll take every single time

The common thread is consolidation,every category went from "buy five separate tools" to "buy one platform that does all five things at 80% of the quality." and 80% quality at 20% cost is the right tradeoff for most small businesses

what's everyone else spending on marketing and has anyone else consolidated recently?