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AI Strategy · Jul 16, 2026 · 13 min read

Forward-deployed AI engineers: the $1.5B Ode model, and when a partner beats hiring in 2026

Anthropic's Ode is valued at $1.5 billion; OpenAI's rival venture raised $4 billion at a $10 billion valuation. Both bet that implementation, not models, is the trillion-dollar business. Ode has 100 engineers and works

Manu Shukla

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