Launch partners for Parallel's Index marketplace include The Atlantic, Fortune, PR Newswire, PitchBook, Traction, ZoomInfo, Alex Heath, and Azim Azhar.

Mark Zuckerberg frequently grants his first interviews after major announcements to Alex Heath, formerly of The Verge, because he is perceived as an interviewer who will not ask difficult questions.

Alex Heath states that Apple's new Siri is significantly less capable than current models from Anthropic, such as Fable, and OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Alex Heath believes the partnership between Apple and OpenAI is "on the outs."

Alex Heath predicts that Apple will likely release smart glasses next year.

Apple executives believe the current hype around AI agents is premature, viewing the technology as still brittle and not ready for deployment at the scale of Apple's user base.

Alex Heath suggests the long-term risk for Apple is that AI agents could render the concept of an operating system archaic, threatening its high-margin services business.

Apple is applying its own distillation, post-training, and customization to Google's Gemini models for use in Siri, rather than using the models directly.

The new version of Apple's Siri lacks memory and forgets conversations, a feature present in competing products like Claude and ChatGPT.

Alex Heath predicts that OpenAI's Codex product will become more central to the company's business strategy this year than ChatGPT.

Alex Heath views SpaceX as a more conventional company in terms of governance and structure compared to OpenAI and Anthropic.

According to a leak, Anthropic is developing a new suite of highly capable large models and is preemptively briefing cybersecurity firms on their capabilities before public deployment.

OpenAI is preparing to release its next large model, which is internally named "SPUD".

Travis Kalanick raised a total of approximately $60 to $70 billion for Uber during his tenure.

Anthropic added approximately $6 billion in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in the single month of February, driven by traction for its Claude Code model.

Sam Altman has raised over $200 billion in total funding for OpenAI.

The user growth rate for OpenAI's ChatGPT has slowed down.

The head of OpenAI's Codex team expects their AI coding technology to expand and apply to nearly every domain of knowledge work within the next six to nine months.

Alex Heath believes there is a race between OpenAI and Anthropic to determine which company will be the next to go public.

Alex Heath predicts that OpenAI, SpaceX, and Anthropic could all go public this year.