How Big Is the AI Economy?

Today on the AI Daily Brief, just how big is the AI economy? Before that in the headlines, are we about to have to KYC to use the newest AI models? The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Scrunch, MissionCloud, and OutSystems. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. And if you wanna learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. By the way, if you haven't checked out the new improved aidailybrief.ai, you should check it out. Each episode is not only summarized but chunked into the key numbers and a set of between fifteen and twenty shareable chunks that are the key points, key quotes from the show, organized by topic. If you've been looking for a way to share just some specific part of the show, go check it out at aidailybrief.ai. As per usual, we are starting with our mythos slash fable watch, where we are getting more signs of a fable relaunch but with some strict new controls. AI leaker m one Astra posted some new code strings added to the Claude app, giving some hints on how the Fable relaunch might be handled. Firstly, it seems that Fable usage will be credit based rather than part of subscriptions. It's unclear whether Anthropic will still honor the trial period, but the code strings indicate clearly that fable usage will be billed separately ultimately. In addition, it appears model access will require users to submit identification documents to Anthropic. One code string states, your credits will be added once your identity is verified. And folks are not so happy about this. Hader wrote, no sensible person is going to give their identity verification to Anthropic just to use a heavily guardrailed model. While I understand where Hader is coming from, having spent a lot of years closely watching people's relationship with privacy when it comes to technology, I am quite sure that basically everyone is going to give their identity verification to Anthropic even if the model is heavily guardrailed. Indeed, some believe that this was inevitable as soon as the government intervened. Max Weinberg commented, I called this within forty minutes of Fable and Mythos getting banned. Seems like the only path forward similar to getting a gun license. Given how the government seems to view these models, I think that's a fair comparison. By the way, that is a comparison that Dario Amede made himself when he said about Mythos, companies we gave to it said, this is a super weapon. You should have to own a gun license to use it. So, you know, just a plus communications all around. Now, of course, at this stage, this is just rumors based on code snippets, so we don't have …