ChatGPT
also referred to as: chat gpt · chat gpts
includes ChatGPT Agent, ChatGPT Voice, ChatGPT Atlas, ChatGPT Canvas, ChatGPT Deep Research, ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Operator, ChatGPT Plugins, ChatGPT Agents
136 statements across 64 episodes · 66 bullish · 30 bearish · 52 people on the record · first statement Mar 1, 2023 by Joshua Browder · said 760 times in 167 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Olivia Moore (80), Alex Rampell (50), Anish Acharya (49), Marc Andreessen (40), Justine Moore (29), Martin Casado (21), Erik Torenberg (20), Steph Smith (16)
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2026 131 mentions in 32 episodes 4 per episode
- Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- Can AI Learn Mathematical Intuition?
- The Biggest Bottlenecks For AI: Energy & Cooling
- OpenClaw, Claude Code, and the Future of Software | Peter Yang on The a16z Show
- Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
- Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- 24 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 474 mentions in 88 episodes 5 per episode
- Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
- The Top 100 GenAI Products, Ranked and Explained
- Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
- The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI
- GPT-5 and Agents Breakdown – w/ OpenAI Researchers Isa Fulford & Christina Kim
- The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
- 80 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 49 mentions in 18 episodes 3 per episode
- The Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps
- The 2025 AI Search Race
- The Quest for Community-Trained Open Source AI Models
- Truth Terminal - The AI Bot That Became a Crypto Millionaire
- Why Human Data is Key to AI: Alexandr Wang from Scale AI
- America Needs More Techno-Optimism, with Marc Andreessen and Tyler Cowen
- AI at the Intersection of Bio | Vijay Pande, Surya Ganguli & Bowen Liu
- Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 106 mentions in 29 episodes 4 per episode
- Where We Go From Here with OpenAI's Mira Murati
- 2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
- Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming
- What is the Future of Hollywood?
- The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- Embedded AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking
- The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi
- The Robot Lawyer Resistance with Joshua Browder of DoNotPay
- 21 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
Everything said about ChatGPT, oldest first
Mar 1, 2023
Mar 1, 2023 positive
Congressional staffers will use ChatGPT to draft laws within a year
“I think in the next year, it's already secretly writing laws. A lot of laws originate from an overworked staffer in Congress, and I'm sure it's two a.m. They need to finish it, and they're probably typing in ChatGPT asking, asking it to help them a bit, and so…”
Apr 24, 2023 positive
Jun 13, 2023 positive
Piff Marti uses ChatGPT to translate music contracts into layman's terms
“I could put a contract into ChatGBT, and it will translate it in layman's terms. Probably not as good as a lawyer, because you still need that human, you know what I mean? Yet, but for me, who couldn't necessarily afford to have a lawyer on retainer, at least …”
Jul 27, 2023 positive
Sep 25, 2023
Murati: ChatGPT was originally released to gather research feedback for GPT-4
“One of the main things was actually to put chat GPT in the hands of researchers out there that could give us feedback since we had this dialogue modality. And so this was the original intent to actually get feedback from researchers and use it to make GPT-IV m…”
Sep 25, 2023 neutral
Murati: ChatGPT uses same core model as OpenAI API plus RLHF
“It's fundamentally the same technology, maybe with a small difference, with reinforcement learning, with human feedback. For ChatGPT, but it's fundamentally the same technology, and the reaction, and the ability to grab people's imagination, and to get them to…”
Sep 25, 2023 neutral
Sep 25, 2023 neutral
Murati: OpenAI feared ChatGPT was not good enough a week before launch
“It's a strategy that we, we've been using from the beginning and also with ChatGPT where, you know, the week before we were worried that it wasn't good enough. And we also, what happened, you know, we put it out there and then people Told us it is good enough …”
Oct 1, 2023 neutral
Oct 1, 2023 positive
Andreessen: GPT-4 can write screenplays using the Save the Cat framework
“One of the things you can do with like GPT-IV, you know, with like ChatGPT or with whatever, you know, Bing, Bing Chat or whatever you can actually use it will write you screenplays today, and what you can do, you can just tell it, write me a screenplay about,…”
Dec 15, 2023 positive
Dec 15, 2023 positive
Mar 13, 2024
Andreessen: ChatGPT stemmed from Alec Radford's early LLM work at OpenAI
“The origin story of even, even ChatGPT is this is not what OpenAI actually started to do. They started to do something different, and then there was actually one guy who actually his name is, I think Alec Radford, and he literally was, like, off in the corner …”
Jun 4, 2024 negative
Jun 4, 2024 negative
Jun 4, 2024 neutral
Most top web AI companion apps rely on uncensored models
“Most of them were actually uncensored models. So not to say they were all NSFW, because that isn't necessarily the use case, but they allow you more freedom to talk about different topics, do different things than you can do if you were just trying to use Chat…”
Oct 1, 2024
Schmidt: ChatGPT, Llama, and DeepSeek use Nous Research's YaRN context extension
“Bone here is the lead author of a method we developed called YARN, which is a context window extension method that we released and did the research on. It is now used by every, every model you use nowadays, everything, everything Chachipiti, Lama, DeepSeq, all…”
Oct 22, 2024 negative
Andreessen: Major commercial AI models are heavily shackled and hobbled
“The, large language models you know, like ChatGPT from the big labs from the big companies they basically all have in common. Grok is a little bit more liberated, but with the other ones that people use, all have in common is they, they've been like, just like…”
Dec 9, 2024 positive
Dec 9, 2024 bullish
Immerman: Gen AI search offers a much better UX than Google
“If you think about the Google experience as it is today, it's just a long list of links. And the first few are sponsored. They're ads. And I, as a user, when I make a query on Google, I then need to make the decision. I have to sift through the information on …”
Dec 9, 2024 bullish
Feb 14, 2025 negative
Feb 20, 2025 bearish
Feb 28, 2025
Mar 7, 2025 neutral
Casado: Leading AI consumer products launch web-first before releasing APIs
“Anecdotally, other than like, say, maybe like mid-journey and Discord, all of these are web technologies, like ChatGPT, Ideogram, like all of them, Claude, I mean, it seems like that the first place that they land is a website, and then maybe an API, which you…”
Mar 15, 2025 bullish
Mar 18, 2025 bearish
Acharya: Tech incumbents are vastly behind LLM startups in voice AI
“I think that the incumbents, it's just such a daily demonstration of how far behind they are when you both have Google Home in your home and you've got ChatGPT in your pocket. You know, my children try to ask Google Home to tell them stories in the same way th…”
Mar 20, 2025 positive
Mar 26, 2025 positive
Mar 26, 2025 neutral
Mar 26, 2025 neutral
Moore: DeepSeek mobile app achieves 7% 30-day retention versus ChatGPT's 9%
“On a retention basis, like, how many users are coming back to the app, say, Exactly 30 days, exactly seven days, exactly 60 days. It's just slightly below ChatGPT. So we're looking at seven percent day 30 for DeepSeq and nine percent day 30 for ChatGPT.”
Mar 26, 2025 bullish
Mar 26, 2025 bullish
Moore: DeepSeek reached #2 AI web product within a week of launch
“We only had 10 days of data for Deep Seek for January, because it launched at the end of the month, and it shot up from literally nothing to number two on the list, you know, 10% of ChatGPT scale on web within a week, a little bit more than a week.”
Mar 26, 2025 positive
Acharya: Anthropic's Claude surpasses ChatGPT in coding and creative writing
“Claude sits in this very interesting place where it seems like it's more beloved by a smaller number of people. It's better at, Creative writing. You know, it seems to have more of a personality, which is interesting, because at least I think it's designed to …”
May 24, 2025
May 31, 2025 negative
Jun 6, 2025
Bryan Kim: ChatGPT knows more personal context about him than Google
“I pour my heart and soul into ChatGPT. It knows more about me than probably Google, potentially. Which is an insane thing to say. Like Google, I've been using, using Google for a decade plus, and ChatGPT may know more about me than Google, because I type more,…”
Jun 12, 2025 positive
Adam Neumann: AI helps dyslexic individuals write without spelling mistakes
“I have a lot of dyslexic friends now who keep, everyone keeps calling me about how they're using AI to write stuff because it's just, they're not making mistakes anymore because my kind of dyslexia, even when you do the auto, even if you need, when you did it …”
Jun 13, 2025
Jun 13, 2025 neutral
Jun 13, 2025
Olivia Moore: Backlash over 'Sky' voice spooked OpenAI from releasing human-sounding AI
“I honestly think a big part of it might have been when they first released advanced voice mode, if you remember all the controversy around her, And was this gonna be a, you know, a companion that replaced humans, and some of what people would think of as kind …”
Jun 13, 2025 positive
Jun 16, 2025 positive
De la Garza: ChatGPT is 100% accurate at detecting suspicious emails
“To drop a suspicious email into a, into ChatGPT and ask if it's suspicious, and it's like a hundred percent accurate, right? Like if you want to like find sensitive information, you ask the LLM, is this sensitive information? And it's like a hundred percent ac…”
Jun 20, 2025 positive
Jul 14, 2025 bullish
Levie: Vertical AI agents will outperform horizontal models in specialized workflows
“Now, that translates fine to agents, but I still would then bet on that, that vertical player doing that, as opposed to somebody prompts their way into ChatGPT to build a FDA compliance agent. I would still largely bet on, you know, complianceagent.ai to do th…”
Jul 21, 2025
Casado: Companionship and therapy are ChatGPT's top use cases, not coding
“Like, if you look at the most common use cases of something like ChatGPT, I think the top one is like companionship and therapy, and then it's like managing my schedule, and it's like the top of the pyramid of need stuff. And then number five is professional d…”
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Balaji Srinivasan makes decisions by having multiple AI models debate memos
“I will write sometimes these long memos to an AI, and then continuing, I know maybe you don't love this analogy, but I think it's funny. Continuing the Polytechnology, I'll give them to Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, ok? So I'll give them to Chachi Bti and Claude,…”
Jul 31, 2025 positive
Cahn: Ash AI users increase real-world human connections unlike ChatGPT users
“In a space of chat, like chatbots, like people who talk to ChatGPT about their mental health largely over time lose connections with other humans. Like they actually connect with people less than replace it. With Ash, we've shown now Over time, on average, peo…”
Aug 8, 2025
Aug 8, 2025
Aug 8, 2025
Aug 14, 2025 positive
Lingelbach: Iconic AI companies win by solving the UX last mile
“When I think about, like, the most iconic companies in the space, They did that last mile, right? Like, ChatGPT has built out a really good user experience for interacting with LLMs, and they've built things into that core workflow that people aren't coming fo…”
Aug 18, 2025 negative
Aug 27, 2025 neutral
Only three AI app categories had sustained usage two years ago
“Companionship and general LLM assistance, like ChatGPT, and then creative tools were kind of the three categories that were working two years ago. And anything else that popped up on the list, in many cases, was pretty random, and would spike one month and be …”
Aug 27, 2025 positive
Google Gemini reaches half of ChatGPT's mobile app traffic
“Gemini was number two. It was right behind ChatGPT. It has just about 10% of ChatGPT's traffic on web, but it's much closer on mobile. It's like half of ChatGPT's traffic on the mobile app, which is interesting. It's mostly Android users, which I think you wou…”
Sep 10, 2025 positive
Dixon: Silicon Valley underestimates brand equity and consumer inertia
“I've always suspected in tech, we, in Silicon Valley, kind of, we underestimate the power of just kind of brands and consumer inertia, and I think you're sort of seeing that today with ChatGPT of just like such a Household name, like overnight almost that even…”
Sep 17, 2025 negative
Moore: LLM hallucinations force shoppers back to Google and Amazon
“All, like, all LLMs, but I'll use ChatGPT as the example, because the most people use it have this really unfortunate and annoying problem of hallucinating around product recommendations that basically everyone experienced if you tried to use it for that.”
Sep 17, 2025 bearish
Sep 17, 2025 neutral
Rampell: AI platforms will make marketing attribution harder to untangle
“And this is only going to get more complicated in the AI world, where, like, it might be the same thing, where it's like, Justine might have researched on Reddit, saw the Super Bowl, like, did all of these things, Asked a question on ChatGPT and then clicked p…”
Sep 17, 2025 bearish
Sep 23, 2025 positive
Sep 27, 2025 positive
Lazzarin prompts ChatGPT, Anthropic, and Grok simultaneously for medical queries
“To be honest, I'll send the same thing to ChatGPT, Anthropic, and Grok at the same time, force them to fight against each other and then end up with just kind of a list of interesting sources that I put in front of the doctor.”
Sep 27, 2025 positive
Sep 30, 2025 positive
Fedus: Pre-training on domain data outperforms retrieval-augmented generation
“However, as we've seen with things like ChatGPT and other things, when you pre-train on the data, when you actually encode the knowledge into the weights, it's not just a retrieval system, you have a richer, deeper understanding of the material.”
Sep 30, 2025 negative
Fedus: Early ChatGPT was mathematically weak due to friendliness rewards
“The reward functions that we were using originally couldn't determine whether you were mathematically correct or not. So early versions of Chachapiti were mathematically not particularly strong, and it sort of results from the reward function. What did you opt…”
Oct 2, 2025 positive
Kupor: OPM finally deployed ChatGPT to desktops via a $1-a-year GSA deal
“Until this week, we did not have ChatGPT on anybody's actual desktop, right? And so I've been, you know, pounding my CIO, and pounding my CIO, we finally, literally, you know, thanks to the new deal that GSA did for the, you know, the one dollar a year deal, A…”
Oct 2, 2025 neutral
Kupor: Silicon Valley recruits resorted to using ChatGPT on their personal phones
“The people on my team who, you know, came from Silicon Valley who are working in my department, What they were doing was just, they would just, you know, on their personal phone, they were using ChatGPG to help them do stuff”
Oct 8, 2025 negative
Altman: Paid recommendation ads would destroy user trust in ChatGPT
“People have a very high trust relationship with ChatGPT. Even if it screws up, even if it hallucinates, even if it gets it wrong, people feel like it is trying to help them and that it's trying to do the right thing. And if we broke that trust, it's like you s…”
Oct 8, 2025 positive
Altman: Public awareness lags far behind actual AI model capabilities
“And now we're in this world where the capability overhang is so immense. Like most of the world still just thinks about what ChatGPT can do. And then you have, like, some nerds in Silicon Valley that are using codecs, and they're like, wow, those people have n…”
Oct 8, 2025 neutral
Oct 8, 2025
Altman: Industry gaming LLM search recommendations emerged in past year
“So this is a very sudden shift that has happened. We never used to hear about this, like, six months ago, 12 months ago. Certainly. And now, there's like, a real cottage industry that feels like it's sprouted up overnight. Trying to do this.”
Oct 8, 2025 positive
Oct 16, 2025 negative
Alex Rampell asserts Google is artificially inflating Gemini daily active user metrics
“And I think the metrics that they're kind of faking right now is it's like what percentage of our users are using AI and that's not using Gemini as a DAU. I'm sure of that. It's just like they have like an AI summary, something, something in there, but they're…”
Oct 16, 2025 bearish
Oct 16, 2025 bearish
Oct 16, 2025 bullish
Keith Rabois predicts ChatGPT will become a multi-trillion dollar monopoly
“I think ChatGBT becomes a monopoly. It's the fastest growing consumer product of all time. It is transforming how everybody, every normal person basically does their work, runs their life. And so that product alone is a several trillion dollar company.”
Oct 16, 2025 bearish
Oct 22, 2025 positive
Oct 22, 2025 positive
Rose uses ChatGPT and professional therapy frameworks during marital disagreements
“If I get in a disagreement with my wife, I will take some of that shit to ChatGVT and be like, am I right here? What's going on? You know? And I, but I call and I say, use the framework of Terry Real. I use some of these like professional therapists and say, h…”
Oct 22, 2025 bullish
Oct 29, 2025 positive
Oct 30, 2025 negative
Nov 3, 2025 positive
Sacks: Five major AI model companies are closely clustered in capability
“Fortunately, so far what we're seeing in the market is that it's hyper competitive. There's five major model companies all making huge investments. And the benchmark, the model performance, the evaluations are relatively clustered. And there's a lot of leapfro…”
Nov 3, 2025 positive
Andreessen: Top AI models are directly accessible in standard consumer products
“And then the best AI's in the world are in the consumer products, right? And so if you use the, if you use, you know, current day chat GPT or Grok or any of these things, like, you know, I can't spend more money. You know and, get access to a better AI. It's i…”
Nov 5, 2025
Nov 7, 2025
Amjad Masad: Non-technical consumers routinely switch between multiple competing AI models
“Not particularly technical consumers actually do use multiple AIs. Like I didn't expect that, like, you know, people only use Google. They never like looked at Google and then Yahoo or like very few people do it. But now you talk to just average people and the…”
Nov 17, 2025 negative
Nov 17, 2025 positive
Nov 26, 2025 bearish
Marc Andreessen predicts massive turnover for public figures who sound like AI
“My new version of this, my, the new test I think is happening is what we might call the GPT test, which is, okay, if what somebody says is indistinguishable from chat GPT output, like not going to make it. Right. And then the more advanced version of the test …”
Nov 28, 2025 positive
Nov 28, 2025 positive
Sherman Wu: OpenAI API end-user reach previously exceeded ChatGPT's reach
“One thing we talk about internally sometimes is like, what does our end user reach from the API? Like it's actually, it's like really, really, it's really bright. It might even, it's hard because ChatGPT is growing so quickly, but like it, like at some point i…”
Nov 28, 2025 positive
Sherman Wu: OpenAI views ChatGPT and Sora as interfaces for core intelligence
“At the end, like, at the end of the day, OpenAI is like a, an AGI company. It's like an intelligence company. And so, agents are just, like, one way in which this intelligence kind of be manifested. And so, the way that I'd say we actually think about internal…”
Nov 28, 2025 positive
Dec 1, 2025 negative
Fradin: Employee surveys are the worst way to measure AI productivity
“The worst way to measure productivity is I'm going to send a survey to my employees and say, do you feel more productive today from using ChatGPT? First of all, there's a definition issue. Second of all, people are going to answer the way you hope they'll answ…”
Dec 12, 2025 positive
Dec 12, 2025 bearish
Dec 12, 2025 neutral
Dec 29, 2025 bullish
Dec 29, 2025 bearish
Kim: Pure text AI startups cannot compete against major labs
“When the input and the output is text. Where ChatGPT and Gemini of the world shine the most, no matter how deeper you go, no matter how specific you think your text output is going to be, essentially given the frequency of the usage of the main Big Lab product…”
Dec 29, 2025
Moore: OpenAI integrated launches into ChatGPT while Google built standalone products
“What we saw was OpenAI tended to keep more things in the ChatGPT interface, so like Pulse, group chats, shopping, research, tasks, all of these features launched inside ChatGPT as the core. The exception there is obviously Sora as a standalone video app, where…”
Dec 29, 2025 positive
Dec 29, 2025 neutral
Dec 29, 2025 bearish
Dec 29, 2025 neutral
Dec 29, 2025 positive
Moore: Perplexity Comet browser launch traffic surpassed ChatGPT Atlas
“If you look at the data, like the spike at launch and the sustained traffic for Comet was actually much higher than for ChatGBT's own browser launch, Atlas, which is kind of crazy given how much more distribution ChatGBT has than Perplexity.”
Dec 29, 2025
Dec 29, 2025
Dec 29, 2025 positive
Dec 29, 2025 bullish
Jan 13, 2026 positive
Jan 19, 2026 bullish
Jan 19, 2026 bearish
Jan 19, 2026 bullish
Jan 26, 2026 positive
Jan 26, 2026 bullish
George: ChatGPT daily users average 30 minutes per day
“Active daily active users of chat GPT are ready today. Spend like 30 minutes at 20, 28, 29 minutes a day on the product. And, you know, to put that into context, I think Instagram's like 50 minutes a day and, you know, tick tock like Sadly, it's like 70 minute…”
Jan 26, 2026 bullish
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Mar 10, 2026 neutral
Mar 10, 2026 bullish
Moore: AI Memory Will Render Software Onboarding Obsolete Within Two Years
“Whether it's their own memory or, like, ChatGPT lending memory, any product that you start to use two years from now, if it doesn't immediately feel like it knows you, it will feel broken. Like, the concept of, like, onboarding to a product should not be somet…”
Mar 10, 2026 neutral
Mar 10, 2026
Mar 10, 2026 bullish
Moore: ChatGPT Is 30x Larger Than Claude on Web, 80x on Mobile
“On web, they're 2.7 times bigger than Gemini. On mobile, they're 2.5 times bigger than Gemini. And then, despite, again, like, the kind of tech Twitter discourse Claude, they're almost 30 times bigger than Claude on web, and almost 80 times bigger than Claude …”
Mar 10, 2026 positive
Mar 10, 2026 positive
Mar 10, 2026 bullish
Mar 10, 2026 neutral
Apr 6, 2026 negative
Apr 6, 2026 positive
Yang: OpenAI Will Integrate Personal Agent Capabilities Directly Into ChatGPT
“I mean, I think that's what Peter Steinberg is working out at OpenAI, right? Yeah. He's probably going to build something to ChatGPT, which everybody uses so that ChatGPT can actually get stuff done for you and, like, maybe feels more human.”
Apr 6, 2026 positive
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Aug 9, 2026 negative
Massa: Handing LLM tools to unchanged teams yields zero efficiency gains
“The first, and this is where I think many companies are stuck right now, is the first instinct is, okay, let's adopt AI. And you basically leave your structure as it is and just give ChatGPT or Claude to your team. And then there's no efficiencies. Your custom…”
Sep 1, 2026 negative
Litt: Multiple preprint papers have appeared with identical AI-generated proofs
“Like, sometimes, you know, we've seen examples where, like, three or four or five papers with the exact same proof of the exact same theorem have come out in, within a couple days of each other, which is clearly, you know, some situation where someone's playin…”
Sep 1, 2026 neutral
Litt: Claude was useless for research math until Opus 4.5 or 4.6
“One thing is that ChatGPD got better at math earlier. Yes. So, like, for a long time the Claude models were just, like, not useful for research math. And then I think maybe around Opus 4.5 or Opus 4.6, they, like, more or less caught up.”
Sep 1, 2026 bearish
Litt: Frontier AI models cannot autonomously perform mathematical theory building
“So like, I've tried to get both, both Fable and ChatGPT, 5.6 Sol, I guess, to do some kind of theory building, and it's like, they're not, they definitely are not good at it autonomously, at least with, like, whatever scaffolding I've set up. But with some hin…”