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The $65 BILLION AI Raise That Changes Everything

The $65 BILLION AI Raise That Changes Everything

EPISODE 131 • SEASON 01:54:21

Anthropic Raises $65B — Now More Valuable Than OpenAI

Series H round closed May 28, 2026 — led by Altimeter, Sequoia, Dragoneer & Greenoaks
Samsung, SK Hynix & Micron joined as strategic infrastructure partners
$15B of the total from previously committed hyperscaler investments, including $5B from Amazon
Run-rate revenue crossed $47B earlier this month — tripled in value since February
IPO window reportedly targeting October 2026 — this may be the last private raise

Google's Gemini Omni — The AI That Edits Your Videos In Chat

Launched May 19 at Google I/O — Omni Flash rolled out same day inside the Gemini app
A unified multimodal model: text, images, audio, and video all go IN — video comes OUT
The killer new feature: conversational editing — refine the clip in chat without re-prompting from scratch
Every clip carries Google's SynthID watermark — verifiable in the Gemini app and Google Search
Ships inside Search, Gemini app, Flow, and YouTube — not a standalone product

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