DeepSeek Just Shipped V4. Anthropic Hired Priests.

About this episode

The episode discusses the launch of DeepSeek V4, the hiring of priests by Anthropic, and the implications of AI in various sectors.

DeepSeek V4 ships at 1% the cost of Claude Opus and GPT-5. Anthropic hires priests and psychologists to check on Claude's feelings. Customers Bank CEO Sam Sidhu sends an AI voice clone of himself to host 30 minutes of his own Q1 earnings call and nobody catches on. Hunter and Daniel break down the open-weights price collapse, why Midjourney is cooked and Flux wins locally, why no one sane should be paying Opus rates to reset a password, and why every polished email should be reverse-engineered back to the honest draft a human actually typed. AI is replacing humans. Ours is hiring them.

People in this episode

Hosts: Hunter Powers, Daniel Bishop

Topics covered

• AI technology
• cost efficiency
• emotional AI
• voice cloning
• email communication
• job displacement

Keywords

• DeepSeek V4
• Claude Opus
• AI voice clone
• Sam Sidhu
• Midjourney
• Flux
• job replacement
• email drafting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DeepSeek, Claude Opus, GPT-5, Anthropic

Products: Midjourney, Flux

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