# Chamath Palihapitiya | | | --- | | | | # [Anthropic Raises $65B at $965B, Passing…](https://chamath.substack.com/p/what-i-read-this-week-186)
[Chamath Palihapitiya](https://substack.com/@chamath)
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17 | | A summary of the interesting content that I consumed this past week… | | [Read →](https://chamath.substack.com/p/what-i-read-this-week-186) | [Kwei Hormuz Chou MD, PhD, KKK](https://substack.com/profile/6951565-kwei-hormuz-chou-md-phd-kkk?utm_source=substack-feed-item) [May 31](https://chamath.substack.com/p/what-i-read-this-week-186/comment/268290723 "May 31, 2026, 2:11 PM") Edited Sitting on my toilet and just took a big #Chamath. Dude, next article, can you tell us the art of how one moves from tech dork to trying to be cool? Once a tool, always a tool. What SPAQ are you going to pawn off on us or what pedophile grifter are you going to kiss up too to serve the interests of your big ass Indian nose. Who is uglier? You or eyeballs Patel? --- [Mischa van den Burg](https://substack.com/profile/171059872-mischa-van-den-burg?utm_source=substack-feed-item) [May 31](https://chamath.substack.com/p/what-i-read-this-week-186/comment/268247095 "May 31, 2026, 12:42 PM") Now the question is, as someone who only owns index funds but has been using AI for years, and came to the conclusion that Claude is far better than anything else, should I buy shares? --- [Alex R](https://substack.com/profile/28126364-alex-r?utm_source=substack-feed-item) [May 31](https://chamath.substack.com/p/what-i-read-this-week-186/comment/268242307 "May 31, 2026, 12:33 PM") Claude is a better product across the board, I'm not surprised the market values it higher than ChatGPT. --- [Aarti Sharma](https://substack.com/profile/498812654-aarti-sharma?utm_source=substack-feed-item) [Jun 11](https://chamath.substack.com/p/what-i-read-this-week-186/comment/274353877 "Jun 11, 2026, 6:46 AM") Let’s grow together by supporting one another if you’re also new on Substack, feel free to subscribe and I’ll gladly do the same. --- [Kaguura Gichuru](https://substack.com/profile/310877660-kaguura-gichuru?utm_source=substack-feed-item) [Jun 1](https://chamath.substack.com/p/what-i-read-this-week-186/comment/268565568 "Jun 1, 2026, 3:01 AM") the cost to find edge cases drops when models stop cutting corners. --- [Scenarica](https://substack.com/profile/482879427-scenarica?utm_source=substack-feed-item) [May 31](https://chamath.substack.com/p/what-i-read-this-week-186/comment/268223764 "May 31, 2026, 11:56 AM") The Pluralis number is the one I'd hold most loosely: 20x versus 5x, so 5.5 years to catch up. Extrapolating two exponentials to their crossing point is where most forecasts like this go to die, because the faster rate is usually fast precisely because it's early. --- [Riccardo Patana](https://substack.com/profile/60073312-riccardo-patana?utm_source=substack-feed-item) [May 31](https://chamath.substack.com/p/what-i-read-this-week-186/comment/268399669 "May 31, 2026, 6:09 PM") Edited That's how Pluralis is addressing the communication bottleneck [https://pluralis.ai/docs/agora-system/overview/](https://pluralis.ai/docs/agora-system/overview/) the science is detailed out in this paper presented at NeurIPS 25 [https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01260](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01260) "Protocol Models: Scaling Decentralized Training with Communication-Efficient Model Parallelism" --- [Aarti Sharma](https://substack.com/profile/498812654-aarti-sharma?utm_source=substack-feed-item) [Jun 11](https://chamath.substack.com/p/what-i-read-this-week-186/comment/274354017 "Jun 11, 2026, 6:47 AM") Great curation. The signal isn’t just in the stories themselves, but in how they connect to broader technology and market shifts. --- [IndustryReport](https://substack.com/profile/414019695-industryreport?utm_source=substack-feed-item) [Jun 5](https://chamath.substack.com/p/what-i-read-this-week-186/comment/271022430 "Jun 5, 2026, 8:33 AM") The Anthropic valuation story is interesting but the Pluralis piece is the one worth sitting with. The Anthropic valuation story is interesting but the Pluralis piece is the one worth sitting with. --- [MktContext](https://substack.com/profile/248243883-mktcontext?utm_source=substack-feed-item) [Jun 3](https://chamath.substack.com/p/what-i-read-this-week-186/comment/270215902 "Jun 3, 2026, 8:02 PM") Big news, but the wave of IPOs is going to put a lot of downward pressure on the broader stock market. --- [Joel Sabu](https://substack.com/profile/329901701-joel-sabu?utm_source=substack-feed-item) [Jun 3](https://chamath.substack.com/p/what-i-read-this-week-186/comment/269824322 "Jun 3, 2026, 7:58 AM") The real question isn’t who builds the smartest model. It’s who builds the most trusted one.