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E43: Safety, Scaling Laws, and the Future of Claude with Nicholas Marwell (Anthropic)

Laura Hamilton and Wil Hagen Episode 43

This week, we sat down with Nicholas Marwell, a member of the technical staff at Anthropic. Anthropic is one of the most fascinating companies of the decade, building foundation models focused on safe AI.

We explore joining the post-training team at Anthropic, why folks started to be concerned about safety, understanding a model's neurons, using Claude at work, two areas Nick is most excited for AI to disrupt, and where value will accrue.

Episode Chapters:

  1. Joining Anthropic- 1:55
  2. Secure AI - 5:03
  3. The Founding Story - 8:41
  4. Interpretability - 11:33
  5. Anthropic's Business Model - 15:01
  6. Claude for Enterprise - 19:00
  7. AI for Coding - 22:50
  8. Scaling Laws - 24:30
  9. Making models smarter - 28:00
  10. Quick fire - 32:18


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