Ep 709: OpenAI and Anthropic battle each other, SpaceX and xAI merge, AI coding takes spotlight and more

Things got kinda catty between OpenAI and Anthropic 😺

SpaceX and xAI are now one in the same 🤝

And coding has gone beyond mainstream. 🧑‍💻

If you're still trying to wake up from your Super Bowl overeating slumber, you mighta missed some impactful AI news this week.

We'll get ya caught up.

OpenAI and Anthropic battle each other, SpaceX and xAI merge, AI coding takes spotlight and more -- An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan Wilson


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Topics Covered in This Episode:

1. OpenAI Frontier Platform for Enterprise AI Agents
2. Anthropic Super Bowl Ad vs OpenAI Ads Debate
3. Anthropic Claude CoWork Industry-Specific Plugins Launched
4. Legal and Finance Industry Shaken by AI Plugins
5. SpaceX and XAI Billion-Dollar Merger Announced
6. Meta AI Platform Upgrade and Agent Integrations
7. Perplexity Model Council Multi-AI Response Launched
8. Anthropic Opus 4.6 Multi-Agent Teams Release
9. OpenAI GPT-5.3 Codex Benchmarking Leadership
10. OpenAI Codex Mac App Dedicated Launch
11. Software Market and SaaS Disruption from AI
12. Anthropic Claude Integration in Microsoft PowerPoint
13. Google Gemini 3 General Availability Imminent
14. XAI Grok Video Model Leaderboard Update

Timestamps:

00:00 "Everyday AI: Unfiltered Insights"

06:02 "AI Ad Debate Heats Up"

10:41 "Anthropic Shakes Industries With Plugins"

12:07 AI Threatens Software Industry Model

15:27 "SpaceX-XAI Merger: AI in Orbit"

21:27 "Perplexity's Model Council Launch"

22:51 "Multi-Model AI Enhancements"

28:27 "Multi-Agent Teams Feature Preview"

30:27 "Claude AI Integrated in PowerPoint"

35:51 "OpenAI's GPT 5.

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