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Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:30 Clay Bavor You had, right, Claude, four, five, Codex, five, two.
- ▶ 59:34 Clay Bavor Codex five five cyber if they themselves are the solution, not, uh, kind of, uh, uh, more narrowly focused, um, cybersecurity product.
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:13 Aravind Srinivas why, why, why are they going all in on Codex? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:38 Aravind Srinivas Tools like CloudCode or Codex to write code, but not as literal software engineers.
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:43 Harry Stebbings I would love just your thoughts on some market composition that I'm struggling with, which is like when you look at cognition, you look at Claw Code, you look at Kodak, you look at Cursor now with Grok. 2 times in the scene
Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:43 unnamed speaker Um, a reason to live, a reason to exist, which is, if your options are codex and clawed code, and a neutral third party, and you all pay, you know, you pay consumption based.
Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:56 Jason Calacanis Replit, if you have a complex feature, Replit builds it in Claude, Sonnet, not Open, it builds it in Sonnet to save money, and then it has Codex come in and check the work. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:07 unnamed speaker You have to figure out a consumer monetization model, and you just have to get a codex, the codex competitor to Claude out there. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings Today, joining us in the hot seat, we have Alexander Emberikos, product lead for Codex at OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:46 Alexander Emberikos And so we kind of saw this inflection point and that's actually what part of why we built the app. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:08 Harry Stebbings So, GTM, because of the incredible brand, product execution and just codex being a freaking awesome product, or compute, inference, speed, actual, like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:17 Alexander Emberikos Um, for a while, um, Codex Cloud was, like, effectively unlimited.
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:18 Anish Acharya Is anybody here saying, well, I should go back and use Sonnet three seven because it's cheaper, you know, or I should use something other than Opus four five or Codex