Elon Musk says Grok Bot will now hand each task to whichever AI model does it best — and Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 is at the top of his list, alongside Midjourney and Suno. The same week, Anthropic opened its Claude Startups program to far more founders: a free year of Claude Team, API credits, and a bundle of partner perks. So what happens when your biggest rival starts renting your model? And should founders take Anthropic's free deal, or is it the start of platform lock-in? Guest host Deedy Das (Partner, Menlo Ventures) and Lon Harris are joined for the full show by three investors: - Kanu Gulati — Partner, Khosla Ventures (led investments in PolyAI, Waabi, and Sarvam) - Chris Farmer — Founder & CEO, SignalFire (Grammarly, Alchemy) - Sheel Mohnot — Co-Founder & GP, Better Tomorrow Ventures (seed-stage fintech and vertical AI) In this episode: - Why Grok Bot is becoming a "best model wins" routing layer, and what that says about the model race - What's actually in the expanded Claude Startups program, and who qualifies - How VCs are advising founders on which model platforms to build on