Claude Is Melting Down. AI's Compute Crisis Explained.

About this episode

The episode discusses the AI compute crisis affecting models like Claude and the implications for the industry.

The AI compute crisis is here. Anthropic's Claude is getting dumber and Opus 4.7 & OpenAI's Spud are about to make it worse. What happen's next? This week on AI For Humans, we dig into the AI compute crunch that's quietly becoming the industry's biggest problem. The Wall Street Journal just ran a cover story about AI using so much energy that computing power is running out. Claude users are noticing the model getting worse, and an AMD Senior AI Director confirmed. AI pundits are asking whether Anthropic's reluctance to release Mythos is really about safety or about not having enough compute. Meanwhile, Opus 4.7 is reportedly coming next week, rumors are swirling about a new OpenAI model dropping any day, and Uber already blew through its entire annual AI coding budget. Anthropic just signed a deal with Google and Broadcom for more compute. Greg Brockman published an essay on the computer-powered economy. Plus, Google DeepMind drops Gemini Robotics Reasoning Model ER-1.6, Steven Soderbergh comes to the defense of AI filmmaking, Diplo says you can't fight AI and the internet has opinions, and Ray Kurzweil says we'll soon just accept AIs as conscious because it'll be useless not to…

People in this episode

Hosts: Kevin Pereira, Gavin Purcell

Topics covered

• AI compute crisis
• Anthropic
• OpenAI
• energy consumption
• AI models
• technology trends

Keywords

• AI compute crisis
• Claude
• Opus 4.7
• OpenAI
• energy consumption
• AI models
• Anthropic
• Uber
• Gemini Robotics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic, Google, Broadcom, OpenAI, Uber

Products: Claude, Opus 4.7, Spud, Gemini Robotics Reasoning Model ER-1.6

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