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How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It Sep 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:51 Cliff Weitzman The reason why ChatGPT worked as opposed to GPT-III is because it was also a very simple interface.

OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:15 Matan Grinberg Like, just how before it was you know, GPT-II, then GPT-III, then GPT-III, then then GPT GPT-III then-III, then GPT then GPT then GPT GPT then GPT GPT GPT GPT GPT GPT-IV then,, then GPT then GPT then GPT-IV, then GPT, then GPT, then-

Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:36 Cliff Weitzman So, when GPT-III came out, actually even GPT-II, uh, my youngest brother, Eric, has, uh, neural inflammation and psychosis, and he's had it for a long time. 2 times in the scene

Replit CEO: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified & Why Coding Models are Plateauing | Amjad Masad · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 25, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:56 Amjad Masad So we, we've had AI since 21, 22, GPT three, but the unlock in 20, 24 was agentic AI.

The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 14, 2026 · 3 mentions

Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:02:25 Winston Weinberg Um, the idea was basically, hey, did you guys know that, you know, at this point it was GPT-III and just the API was public.

20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs Jan 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:57 Luke Harries Back in 2019, before LLMs were really a thing, the transformer paper had just came out, but like, GPT-Tree didn't even exist.

General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:53 Hemant Taneja Take customer support, for example, when new models come out, uh, when you, if you started building your company, when you were in the chat, in T three era versus four versus five, you just have more tools at your disposal disposal.

Surge CEO & Co-Founder, Edwin Chen: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with NO Funding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:19 Edwin Chen So again, like, if you think about, um, like we basically started a surge in 20, 20, right after the launch of GP three.

Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:21 Scott Wu Yeah, so, so, look, again, RL is, we've had a few years of, I would call, imitation learning before RL, which is, that's what went into GPT-III and III.V and so on, which is basically, you take the entire internet, and you read the whole…

20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo Jun 20, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:16 Cem Kansu Um, so when we were testing GPT-III, we're like, okay, this is a good way. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:07:02 Cem Kansu And around that time, GPT-III came out and we're like, oh, hold on.

20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries May 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:59 Luke Harries Back in 2019, before LLMs were really a thing, the transformer paper had just came out, but like, GPT-Tree didn't even exist.

Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:52 unnamed speaker Like I think the first stage of language models is you just take text from the internet, you train your model, and you have like GPT-III, which is very cool, but people didn't want, didn't like to use it.

George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 22, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:19 George Sivulka Um, and in June of 2020, uh, Sam Altman OpenAI came out with a GPT-III. 2 times in the scene

Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 15, 2025 · 1 mention

Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 2, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:18 Bret Taylor Um, and the insight around instruction tuning and the quality of sort of the GPT models after GPT three was pretty remarkably different.
  • ▶ 25:04 Harry Stebbings Can, can I ask, can you continue to have step function changes with every model in terms of GPT-III to GPT-IV?

Ethan Mollick: Why OpenAl Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken | E1184 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 31, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:46 Ethan Mollick I spoke to a very large financial institution, spent a huge amount of money building a GPT three powered sales assistant tool that as soon as chat GVD came out was instantly obsolete.

Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 1, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:07 Matt Clifford If they're, like, wildly better, if it's as big a gap between four and five as it was between three and four, that is a very different world from if it really feels like we're eking out these tiny improvements despite having invested truly… 2 times in the scene

David Luan: Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space & Models Will Enter the Chip Space | E1169 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 24, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 6:28 David Luan So if you go look at the lag, right, ChatGPT was really just GPT-III with, uh, instruction. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:33 Harry Stebbings You mentioned GPT-II, moving to GPT-III. 2 times in the scene

Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:40 unnamed speaker Is GPT-III not like redundant now that you've got GPT-IV?

Sam Altman & Brad Lightcap: Which Companies Will Be Steamrolled by OpenAI? | E1140 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 15, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:01 Sam Altman As GPT four over GPT three was not because we don't like you, but just because we like have a mission, we're going to steamroll you, but there's a giant set of startups where you benefit from GPT five being way better.

The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 24, 2023 · 1 mention

Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 22, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:03 Jeff Seibert And so then last year, literally all of a sudden GPT three comes out, chat GPT comes out, GPT four, and we started experimenting and we're like, Whoa, hold on.

Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 25, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:25 Howie Liu I mean, if you look at GPT-IV's performance versus GPT-III, for instance, you know, in, um, in pretty profound ways, it's actually able to do things like, you know, pass the bar, pass job interviews, solve problems that, uh, you know,…

Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 19, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 10:43 Alex Lebrun Um, so for instance, ChatGPT, you know, is based on GPT-IV, which is based on GPT-III, was released three years ago. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:53 Alex Lebrun Uh, with only 1000, uh, question and answer examples, so very, very small data sets, um, they get something for, use for fine tuning, so the second stage, they get something that performs better than GPT-III, and almost at the level of…

Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 17, 2023 · 1 mention

Amjad Masad: How I Founded Replit; Zuck's Famous Saying; Will TikTok be banned? | E987 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 11, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:13 Amjad Masad GPT-III can extract any type of information, even in a structured fashion from any website.

Ariel Cohen: The Death of Salesforce; How OpenAI is Changing the Travel Industry | 20VC #975 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 8, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:11 Ariel Cohen Uh, it's like they infused it with so much data, and that by the way, GPT-III, think about GPT-IV and how much more data is there.

20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Aug 24, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:21 Sahil Lavingia It would be like going to OpenAI and being like, hey, GPT-III, why did you say this, right?
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