{"podcast":{"title":"Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast","slug":"latent-space-ai-engineer","podcast_index_feed_id":6058902,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1084089.rss","website_url":"https://www.latent.space/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1084089/ca7468da5614a246d2906ee8926f6de7.jpg","author":"Latent.Space","episode_count":204,"summary":"The AI Engineer newsletter + Top technical AI podcast. How leading labs build Agents, Models, Infra, & AI for Science. See https://latent.space/about for highlights from Greg Brockman, Andrej Karpathy, George Hotz, Simon Willison, Soumith Chintala et al!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latent-space-ai-engineer"},"episode":{"title":"Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures","slug":"anthropic-glean-openrouter-how-ai-moats-are-built-with-deedy-das-of-menlo-ventures","published_at":"2025-11-14T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latent-space-ai-engineer/anthropic-glean-openrouter-how-ai-moats-are-built-with-deedy-das-of-menlo-ventures","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latent-space-ai-engineer","url":"https://www.latent.space/p/anthropic-glean-and-openrouter-how","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186609751/3c36737edc242b35eb746a763451bfb2.mp3","summary":"Deedy Das , Partner at Menlo Ventures , returns to Latent Space to discuss his journey from Glean to venture capital, the explosive rise of Anthropic, and how AI is reshaping enterprise software and coding. From investing in Anthropic early on when they had no revenue to managing the $100M Ontology Fund, Das shares insider perspectives on the fastest-growing software company in history and what’s next for AI infrastructure, research investing, and the future of engineering. We cover Glean’s rise from “boring” enterprise search to a $7B AI-native company, Anthropic’s meteoric rise, the strategic decisions behind products like Claude Code, and why market share in enterprise AI is shifting dramatically. Das explains his investment thesis on research companies like Goodfire, Prime Intellect, and OpenRouter and how the Anthology Fund is quietly seeding the next wave of AI infra, research, and devtools. Full Video Episode Timestamps * 00:00:00 Introduction and Deedy’s Return to Latent Space * 00:01:20 Glean’s Journey: From Boring Enterprise Search to Valuation * 00:15:37 Anthropic’s Meteoric Rise and Market Share Dynamics * 00:17:50 Claude Artifacts and Product Innovation * 00:41:20 The Anthology Fund: Investing in the Anthropic Ecosystem * 00:48:01 Goodfire and Mechanistic Interpretability * 00:51:25 Prime Intellect and Distributed AI Training * 00:53:40 OpenRouter: Building the AI Model Gateway * 01:13:36 The Stargate Project and Infrastructure Arms Race * 01:18:14 The Future of Software Engineering and AI Coding This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.latent.space/subscribe","meta_description":"Deedy Das , Partner at Menlo Ventures , returns to Latent Space to discuss his journey from Glean to venture capital, the explosive rise of Anthropic, and…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5127,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/latent-space-ai-engineer/episodes/anthropic-glean-openrouter-how-ai-moats-are-built-with-deedy-das-of-menlo-ventures/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latent-space-ai-engineer/anthropic-glean-openrouter-how-ai-moats-are-built-with-deedy-das-of-menlo-ventures.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}