OpenAI vs. Anthropic's Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents — With Aaron Levie
4/8/202659 min
Aaron Levie is the CEO of Box . Levie joins Big Technology to discuss the battle between OpenAI and Anthropic as their product roadmaps converge around coding, enterprise, and AI agents. Tune in to hear where AI agents are actually gaining traction, why coding has emerged as the breakthrough use case, and what stands in the way of broader adoption across knowledge work. We also cover trust and security concerns, the messy reality of enterprise data, and the debate over whether value will accrue to the labs or the application layer. Hit play for a sharp look at where the AI market is heading and who stands to benefit most.
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First 90 secondsAlex Kantrowitz· Host0:00
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Alex Kantrowitz· Host0:47
We have a great show for you today. We're gonna unpack the battle between OpenAI and Anthropic now that their product roadmaps have pretty much converged, and we'll also talk about the future and the present of AI agents and where that technology is heading. And joining us is Aaron Levie of Box, CEO of Box. Aaron, thank you. Welcome.
Aaron Levie· Guest1:04
Yeah, good to be here. Um, uh, I, I, I certainly like the framing, uh, on the battle. Um, you know, I think it's, to some extent, it was sort of an inevitable, um, outcome because if you think about it, like, if you have this AI model that is super intelligence packed into a model, it eventually has to converge on, on, you know, all of these... All of the same use cases will be represented by that. And so then I think the labs eventually need to compete head-to-head,