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Thursday’s show focused on the growing strategic divide between OpenAI and Anthropic, sparked by Sam Altman’s recent Cisco interview and Anthropic’s Super Bowl ad campaign. The discussion explored how scale, ads, enterprise subscriptions, and compute economics are forcing very different business models, and why those choices matter for trust, access, and long term AI development. The back half of the show covered Codex adoption, Gemini’s rapid growth, data portability between AI platforms, agent-driven labor disruption, and new research tooling like Paper Banana. Key Points Discussed 00:00:00 👋 Episode 654 kickoff, February 5 context, hosts 00:02:10 🧠 Sam Altman Cisco interview, Codex as a ChatGPT-scale moment 00:06:40 🤖 AI shifting from tool to collaborator, agent autonomy tradeoffs 00:10:20 ☁️ “AI cloud” idea, enterprises outsourcing security, agents, and model control 00:14:40 🧪 Frontier announcement, enterprise agent coworkers 00:18:10 🔬 Scientific partnerships, OpenAI as compute investor 00:23:20 📈 10x capability expectations for 2026 models 00:26:40 ⚔️ Anthropic Super Bowl ad, parodying ad-supported AI 00:30:30 💰 Ads vs subscriptions, incentive misalignment debate 00:35:10 🏢 Enterprise focus, Anthropic profitability vs OpenAI scale pressure 00:39:20 🗳️ Scott Galloway criticism, politics, and subscription boycotts 00:44:10 🧩 Gemini user growth, approaching one billion users 00:47:30 🔁 Importing ChatGPT history into Gemini, data portability 00:51:10 🎥 Gemini strengths, video ingestion and long context 00:54:40 🌍 Agent disruption of global labor, India and outsourced work 00:58:10 📊 Perplexity advanced deep research rollout 01:01:40 📐 Paper Banana, multi-agent scientific diagrams and visuals 01:05:10 ❄️ Winter Olympics, AI curiosity, and closing reflections 01:07:40 🏁 Wrap-up, Conundrum reminder, newsletter, and sign-off The Daily AI Show Co Hosts: Brian Maucere, Beth Lyons, and Andy Halliday