If you follow humanity, you know it’s been a busy year for AI startups. In March, the company announced that it had raised $3.5 billion at a valuation of $61.5 billion in the round led by LightSpeed Venture Partners. Since then, it has won a blog for the Claude model, and according to a report from Bloomberg, Apple has collaborated to power a new “vibe coding” software platform.
Instead of a regular Friday news overview, today’s episode brings you conversations from this week’s TechCrunch Session: AI Event at Berkeley. Our friend and co-host Max Zeff sat down with Jared Kaplan, co-founder and chief science officer of humanity.
Listen to the entire conversation for more details.
Who has direct access to Claude’s AI model, Windsurf’s response, how it all ties to humanity’s broader goals regarding openness, safety and sustainability. The company is heading away from chatbots to an agent AI system that can perform real tasks. How internal tools like Claude code form the future of AI-powered development. What it means for businesses to actually build trustworthy AI and how it affects the way humans interact with software, their jobs, and the way they interact with each other.
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