🎙️ EP 364: Rumors Swirl Around Sonnet 5.5 & ByteDance Dominates China Data Center Capacity
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Anthropic is rumored to be preparing Claude Sonnet 5.5, with grey testing reportedly underway through Claude Code and internal identifiers surfacing in production builds. Meanwhile, a comprehensive infrastructure mapping by SemiAnalysis revealed that ByteDance currently occupies approximately 20% of China’s 24+ gigawatt data center footprint to fuel its aggressive AI scaling.
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Early production signals suggesting an upcoming model targeting GPT-6 Sol performance with a 128K…
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