Anthropic's Beef with the Pentagon

from Pretrained Hosted by Pierce Freeman & Richard Diehl Martinez

Richard and Pierce are back in a brand new studio, fresh off Pierce's snowless ski trip to Japan. This week: Anthropic picks a fight with the Pentagon over three words and ends up blacklisted as a national security risk. Then the guys break down speculative speculative decoding, Chinese labs have been running industrial-scale operations to scrape Claude's capabilities, and the team behind Qwen quietly starts falling apart, right as their best model yet drops.

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Anthropic's Beef with the Pentagon

0:00 41:07

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0:00 Cold Open
0:21 Intro
1:35 Anthropic's Pentagon Ban and the "All Lawful Purposes" Dispute
14:03 Flash Models and Speculative Speculative Decoding
21:56 Chinese Labs Accused of Distilling Claude
29:26 Qwen Team Departures and Qwen 3.5 Architecture
40:21 Outro

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