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Wall Street Issues $1 Trillion Debt for AI Scale [Model Behavior]

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This episode of Model Behavior examines the massive financial concentration in the AI sector, where the eight largest tech companies now constitute nearly half of the S&P 500. We analyze the technical release of Alibaba's Qwen 3.5, a 397-billion parameter open-weight model that introduces high-efficiency agentic capabilities. The discussion covers Anthropic’s rapid expansion into India, now its second-largest market, and the deployment of Claude and Gemini across Cognizant’s 350,000-person workforce. Finally, we look at the emerging friction between Anthropic and the U.S. Department of Defense regarding military use-case safeguards and Meta's integration of autonomous agents into its advertising stack.

Today we examine the historic levels of investment concentration in the AI industry, with tech companies projected to issue over $1 trillion in debt this year to fund infrastructure. We break down the release of Alibaba’s Qwen 3.5, which uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture to maintain 17 billion active parameters while achieving performance levels comparable to GPT-5.2. The show also covers the India AI Impact Summit, highlighting that India now accounts for over 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users. We conclude with an analysis of the strategic moves by Meta to integrate Manus AI into its business tools and the reported tensions between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Anthropic over model safety restrictions.

Topics Covered

  • 📊 The financial concentration of AI within the S&P 500 and VC markets
  • 🤖 Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 release and the shift toward agentic AI architectures
  • 🌐 Anthropic and OpenAI's massive user growth and enterprise partnerships in India
  • 💻 Enterprise automation at scale with Cognizant and Infosys
  • 🛡️ Geopolitical friction in AI supply chains and military deployment terms

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  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (00:48) - The Trillion Dollar AI Debt Bet
  • (01:10) - Agentic Architectures: Qwen and OpenClaw
  • (01:26) - Global Deployment: India and the Pentagon
  • (04:34) - Conclusion
Wall Street Issues $1 Trillion Debt for AI Scale [Model Behavior]

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