Anthropic’s IPO: The Reporter Who Saw the Nvidia Signal Ten Years Early
In 2016, a Bloomberg reporter noticed that nearly every AI paper seemed to use Nvidia GPUs. He thought there was a major story there and tried to write it. The story never ran. Ten years later, that reporter was a co-founder of Anthropic. His name is Jack Clark. I recently came across an interview with him, and the more I read, the more I felt this was a story every technology journalist should know. At Bloomberg, Jack covered Google and AI. For two years, he printed large numbers of research papers from arXiv and charted advances in computer vision, language, video and Atari games. He noticed something striking: capability curves across these fields appeared to be accelerating at the same time. Nvidia GPUs, meanwhile, seemed to be everywhere. On August 2, 2016, he messaged his Bloomberg c
Anthropic’s IPO: The Reporter Who Saw the Nvidia Signal Ten Years Early
In 2016, a Bloomberg reporter noticed that nearly every AI paper seemed to use Nvidia GPUs. He thought there was a major story there and tried to write it. The story never ran. Ten years later, that reporter was a co-founder of Anthropic. His name is Jack Clark. I recently came across an interview with him, and the more I read, the more I felt this was a story every technology journalist should know. At Bloomberg, Jack covered Google and AI. For two years, he printed large numbers of research papers from arXiv and charted advances in computer vision, language, video and Atari games. He noticed something striking: capability curves across these fields appeared to be accelerating at the same time. Nvidia GPUs, meanwhile, seemed to be everywhere. On August 2, 2016, he messaged his Bloomberg c