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Our guest today is the most prominent AI investor in the ecosystem, Anj Midher. Why is he the most prominent? Three reasons. Number one, he's one of the founding investors of Anthropic. Number two, he led AI investments for Andreasen Horis, where he made investments in Black Forest Labs, Mistral, Sesame, among others.

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