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TheSequence 1 month ago 20
The Sequence publishes an opinion on how future AI scaling is governed by real-world energy systems instead of just model parameters. Issue 918 focuses on energy conversion efficiency from photons and atoms into intelligence. It reframes AI “scaling laws” to include how power, cooling, and network losses limit what the next wave can achieve.
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15 October 2026
Anthropic’s IPO momentum dominated today’s AI news, and the details read like a pitch built for CFOs, not just researchers. The company told investors its third-quarter revenue hit $16.8 billion, up about 46% quarter over quarter and nearly 50% in the story’s framing, putting it on a clear path toward public-market scrutiny. Crucially for the valuation talk, distillation—how labs compress and reuse model knowledge—contributed only 5% to 7% of revenue before being “cut back materially” in Q3, shifting the mix away from spending and dependencies that other labs leaned on. An early backer’s market-odds math expects shares priced around $1.8 trillion with a trading value of $2.3 to $2.4 trillion, even comparing that jump to SpaceX’s roughly $2.1 trillion opening-day market cap.
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