In today’s episode, we break down the insane numbers from the Cloud 100 report, with private AI companies now worth over $1.1 trillion. But that’s not even the wildest part. Protesters are hunger striking outside Anthropic and DeepMind, and Alibaba just dropped a trillion-parameter model that might rival GPT-4.5.

We’ll talk about:

• How OpenAI + Anthropic are rewriting what “private company value” means
• The brutal talent war behind the $14B acquihire of Scale AI
• Why China’s Qwen-3-Max could shake up the trillion-parameter race
• The dark side of chatbot ethics, Meta backlash, and what comes next

Keywords: Cloud 100, OpenAI, Anthropic, Qwen-3-Max, Meta AI, Claude Opus, AI hunger strike, Mistral, AI startup funding, A ...