AI Lab Power Rankings
4/29/202625 min
NLW introduces the first AI Lab Power Rankings, comparing OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, xAI, and Apple across compute, enterprise, platforms, models, momentum, and X-factor. The episode explores who looks strongest on paper, who has the most real-world momentum, and why the agent era likely has room for multiple winners. In the headlines: Microsoft and OpenAI amend their partnership, OpenAI comes to AWS, Amazon launches Quick, Claude adds new connectors, and Wall Street reacts to outdated OpenAI growth data.
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First 90 secondsNLW· Host0:00
Today on the AI Daily Brief, find out who both me and AI think are the leading AI labs in our first ever AI lab power rankings. And before that in the headlines, some big updates to the Microsoft OpenAI partnership. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. [Instrumental music] All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to our sponsors, KPMG, Blitzy, Granola, and Mercury. To get an ad-free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. To learn more about sponsoring the show, or really find out anything else about the show, head on over to aidailybrief.ai. One of the things you could find access to there is play.aidailybrief.ai, which is where we put all the companion experiences for this show, including the place where you can build your own AI lab power rankings. And you can also find links for things to our extension programs, like our free self-paced program, Agent OS, which has just launched and now has multiple thousands of you building agentic operating systems. Again, you can find all of that on aidailybrief.ai. [Digital effect] On Monday, OpenAI and Microsoft announced that they've signed an amended agreement that unwinds some fairly big parts of their long-term partnership. Microsoft will continue to be OpenAI's primary cloud partner, but they will no longer be their exclusive cloud partner. That clears the way for OpenAI to serve any of their products on AWS through their new partnership with Amazon. Microsoft will continue to hold a license to OpenAI's IP and models through