Eric Schmidt's $80 Billion Anthropic Bet
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Eric Schmidt's $80 Billion Anthropic Bet

C1AdvancedOctober 20, 202622 min
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DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, its internal inference stack. Inception’s diffusion LLM Mercury 3 claimed 4x to 8x speed over Haiku 5.5. Spotify launched paid podcast memberships, and Eric Schmidt’s 1% Anthropic stake looked set for a massive IPO windfall. DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, its internal production stack designed to accelerate inference, optimize chip performance, and reduce energy and compute costs (Bloomberg) Inception debuts Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM that it says tops GPT-6 Luna, Claude Haiku 5.5, and GLM-5.3 Flash on agentic benchmarks while being 4x to 8x faster (The Deep View) Cloudflare debuts Clairic, a System One-class extraction model it says processes unst...

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Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Tuesday, October 20, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, DeepSeek open source, DeepINFER, its internal inference stack. Inception's Diffusion LLM Mercury 3 claimed four to eight times speed over Haiku 5.5. Spotify launched paid podcast memberships, and Eric Schmidt's 1% anthropic stake looks set for a massive IPO windfall. Here's what you

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