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The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- ▶ 0:21 Russ Fraden Twenty-eight-year-old guy who was using ChatGPT really, really well, and they had him create a thirty-slide deck, and they did a global call for everyone in the investment bank 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:08 Russ Fraden So what we're doing today is we're marrying the behavioral data that no one else has, which is, is Alex a heavy user of ChatGPT or not? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:01 Alex Rampell With chat GPT, like clearly productivity gained for him.
- ▶ 38:01 Russ Fraden Twenty-eight-year-old guy who was using ChatGPT really, really well in the investment banking side of the business, and they had him create a thirty-slide deck, and they did a global call for everyone in the investment bank for this guy to… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:32 Alex Rampell There's this great article or interview with the CEO of Waste Management before ChatGPT came out, um, and he was saying, I have unlimited, like, I get resumes every day from somebody who has an MBA and wants to work, like, in our office… 2 times in the scene
How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
- ▶ 0:00 Sherman Wu We want ChatGPT as a first-party app. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:02 Martin Casado You know, like, everybody uses ChatGPT, for example. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:02 Martin Casado And so I'm wondering if, like, so even if I think ChatGPT is really just trying to expose them all to the user, the APIs 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:04 Martin Casado You've got chat GPT and other products, which are vertical. 4 times in the scene
The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
- ▶ 50:34 Marc Andreessen My new, my new version, 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, if what somebody says is indistinguishable from chat GPT output, like not going to make it. 2 times in the scene
The 2045 Superintelligence Timeline: Epoch AI’s Data-Driven Forecast
- ▶ 28:07 Epoch AI Researcher I, we used ChatGPT agent in our, uh, data center research, because a lot of what we have to do is find permits, which are all going to be on janky county by county databases of error permits for, you know, the county that Abilene, Texas is… 3 times in the scene
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- ▶ 36:30 Vlad Tenev It's the most critical because if you look at AI as a category, you have the fastest product adoption of any products in history with chat GPT and, and all these, you know, cursor and all that fastest revenue ramps.
Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering
- ▶ 26:25 Emmett Shear And the thing is, I get lower predictive loss when I treat ChatGPT or Claude as a being.
- ▶ 57:46 Emmett Shear I'd say, like, ChatGPT is a little bit more sycophantic, uh, still.
Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
- ▶ 8:48 Varun Krishna I mean, the nice thing about this AI revolution is it's not just that it will help us with all the traditional use cases that you see today around like Chachi PT and what anthropic is doing and agentic AI, et cetera, et cetera.
- ▶ 12:01 Alex Rampell Yeah, I mean, I think the technology thing, I mean, that's why I, I was like, kind of, quickly check GPT-ing, um, to refresh my memory on Levittown, but, I mean, this was the first planned suburb, and, uh, um, this, in 1947, so this was…
- ▶ 32:53 Alex Rampell Like we get people to use this like chat GPT.
Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users
- ▶ 29:26 Grant Lee We looked broadly at, like, what was, um, you know, how other products were pricing, and I think, you know, amongst, like, all these different data points, the conclusion ended up being, like, part of this is just, you know, in this moment… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:06 Grant Lee Um, what are tools that go beyond just ChatGPT that everybody at the company can use, that can familiarize themselves with, like, the power of AI, where other, you know, employees can train other employees, and it just so happens, like,…
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
- ▶ 33:26 Amjad Masad Uh, for example, ChatGPT was fundamentally counter-positioned against Google because, uh, Google had a business that, that was actually working. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:26 Amjad Masad But now you talk to just average people and they'll say, yeah, I use ChatGP most of the time, but Gemini is much better at like these types of questions.
- ▶ 45:24 Amjad Masad Then it became sort of chat with chat to PT.
Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Cure All Disease
- ▶ 33:27 Ben Horowitz A scientist isn't going to talk to it like, you know, I talk to ChatGPT or whatever.
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 2:19 Eugenia Kuyda I guess while running Replica, we always had these conversations with our users about what other products they use and how they use AI, and it always struck me as strange that they were using products like ChaiGPT or Gemini, Claude, but… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:00 Anish Acharya How much do you think for the average person whose only AI experience has been with ChatGPT that this is going to be a surprising new behavior that they have to sort of adjust to or something that feels very intuitive and obvious and like,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:36 Eugenia Kuyda OpenAI had, um, you know, put out their ChatGPT and kind of change, change history with that, of course.
Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
- ▶ 31:47 Marc Andreessen Um, 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, I, I can't spend more money. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:24 David Sacks So that's like really important to keep in mind that their predictions of imminent catastrophe have already been refuted, and so things are moving in a direction that, um, that I think are very different than, you know, what they thought…
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on the State of AI
- ▶ 26:33 Erik Torenberg When Gavin was up here with DG, he said, ChatGPT was a Pearl Harbor moment for Google, the moment when the giant wakes up.
"Is there an AI bubble?” Gavin Baker and David George
- ▶ 5:51 David George In the case of the AI tools, you know, all you have to do is kind of light them up via API or, you know, turn on your website, ChatGPT, and everybody has access to them, right?
- ▶ 10:54 Gavin Baker And say that ChatGPT is to AI, has Netscape Navigator was to the internet. 2 times in the scene
Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z
- ▶ 28:33 Jeetu Patel I think the first ChatGPT take on competitive is always better than what my, any product marketing person comes up by themselves. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 22:52 Marc Andreessen So like a, just a, just a large language model, the way you would experience, you would have experienced with like chat GPT out of the gate two years ago or whatever would have been.
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 7:41 Anish Acharya The top chat GPT SKU is 200 a month. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:05 Anish Acharya ChatGPT was November, 22.
- ▶ 28:20 Kevin Rose One of the things that I get in a lot of trouble for is 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?
- ▶ 45:51 Anish Acharya You know, if you go to ChatGPT or Anthropic, the models just aren't trained past a certain date, and they can use the web search tool, so they're a little, they can do some of this, but Grok is hyper up to date with what's happening on X…
- ▶ 54:30 Kevin Rose And then on the left hand side, I can have codecs from ChatGPT.
- ▶ 1:17:27 Anish Acharya Today, ChatGPT has eight hundred million actives, right?
Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Labor
- ▶ 6:08 Reid Hoffman And this is well before ChatGPT and all the rest.
- ▶ 8:34 Reid Hoffman Look at ChatGBT today. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:53 Alex Rampell Apparently two thirds of doctors now use open evidence, um, which is like chat GPT, but it ingested the New England Journal of Medicine. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:39 Alex Rampell It happened with chat GPT was like, it's 20 dollars a month.
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 0:00 Keith Rabois ChatGPT becomes a monopoly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:30 Keith Rabois I think ChatGBT becomes a monopoly. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:21 Keith Rabois The question is, can you get, can ChatGPT get enough of my prompts over enough period of time that they're creating an equivalent data set about me that allows them to compete on the personalization basis? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:29 Alex Rampell You will just go to chat GPT or to your point, like it's possible that the empire strikes back, but like the, like, all right, I already have my calendar, my Gmail, everything else that personalization potentially makes it better. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:10 Keith Rabois It's not gonna be ChatGPT for actually fulfilling most likely. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:43 Keith Rabois But ChatGPG is going to be on everybody's phone or device. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:33 Alex Rampell It's an embarrassment in 2025 when ChatGPT is like AGI.
Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question
- ▶ 4:52 Nathan Labenz Whereas with GPT four, it was, you know, shortly after chat GPT and it was all kind of this moment of like, whoa, this thing is like exploding onto the scene.
- ▶ 18:50 Erik Torenberg The, the, the bearishness or the kind of vibe shift around GPT-V then, you know, one potential contributor is this idea that if a lot of the, if the improvements are at the frontier, you know, not everyone is working with, you know, sort…
- ▶ 1:23:07 Nathan Labenz An amazing thing to do is turn on voice mode and share your screen with ChatGPT and just go through the paper reading.
Will LLMs Get Us To AGI?
- ▶ 15:44 Vishal Misra So that had been running in production since, uh, September, 20, 21, you know, about 15 months before chat GPD came and, you know, the whole revolution in some sense started and RAC became very popular.
- ▶ 17:04 Vishal Misra But starting with the, you know, chat GPT was an advance over GPT three. 2 times in the scene
Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
- ▶ 2:37 Erik Torenberg The, um, there was a great interview you did many years ago in Strictly VC, um, and sort of early open AI before, well before TGPT, and, and they're saying, hey, what's, they're asking, what's the business model?
- ▶ 3:34 Sam Altman Like you can use ChatGPT or some other service to get advice about what you should do running an organization.
- ▶ 5:25 Sam Altman There were a lot of people who thought ChatGPT was not a very AGI-relevant thing, and it's been very helpful to us, not only in building better models and understanding how society wants to use this, but also in, like, bringing society… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:16 Sam Altman And just like with ChatGPT, we were like, the world kind of needs to understand where this is.
- ▶ 11:50 Erik Torenberg Diffusion or, uh, development in twenty-twenty-five has surprised you, or what has sort of updated your worldview since ChatDB came out? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:02 Ben Horowitz So on, um, on the more mundane, you know, one of the things that, uh, people have kind of started to complain about, I think South Park did a whole episode on it, is kind of the obsequiousness of, uh, of kind of AI and ChatGPT in… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:39 Erik Torenberg Chad, you've used eight hundred million weekly active users, about 10% of the world's population.
- ▶ 39:26 Sam Altman People have a very high trust relationship with ChatGPT.
- ▶ 40:36 Ben Horowitz Or using ChatGPT to write some good ones. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:35 Ben Horowitz Um, with ChatGPT, if I'm just asking ChatGPT and I'm not, like, going around the internet, who's gonna create the content and why?
- ▶ 43:53 Sam Altman And then we launched HTTP and everybody was like congratulating me, and I was like,
Software is Eating Labor
- ▶ 3:57 Alex Rampell It's a company in Texas, but this was a joint project of American Airlines and IBM, back when IBM was the, the most powerful, ah, computer company in the world, technology company in the world, because, ah, at least according to ChatGPT, I…
The Person Who Runs HR For 2 Million Federal Workers
- ▶ 28:55 Katherine Boyle Because I'm, I'm going back to a couple years ago, and this was, you know, at Andreessen Horowitz, but also I think across Silicon Valley, there was the earth shattering moment of ChatGPT's release in late, late, and I think everyone woke… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:43 Katherine Boyle And just understanding, like, the, the culture even deeper, is your sense that people use ChatGPT for recipes and travel planning already, and they're like, oh, great, like, now we get to use it in our job, and we'll figure out new ways to… 4 times in the scene
Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
- ▶ 0:49 Anjney Midha So Liam, you were the co-creator of ChatGPT.
- ▶ 5:49 Anjney Midha And it might be helpful to talk about how you created ChatGPT. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:26 Anjney Midha The, the, the career trajectory where you also had the chance to be at, at, at Frontier AI labs, and we're, we're part of training systems that are now, uh, considered sort of landmark, hallmark machine learning systems, um, like Jack GPT,…
- ▶ 39:20 Liam Fedus 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… 2 times in the scene
The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- ▶ 16:19 Katherine Boyle I joke it's my ChatGPT baby because I upload every single medical diagnostic, every blood report, everything to ChatGPT, and it gives me a ton of data. 6 times in the scene
From Vibe Coding to Vibe Researching: OpenAI’s Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki
- ▶ 0:53 unnamed speaker That can do not just GPT-V, but Codex, and ChatGPT, and an API business, and can weave all of the many different bets you guys have across modalities, across product form factors, um, into one coherent research culture and story.
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 25:12 Martin Casado Like, probably most people in the company are using ChatGPT. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:32 Aaron Levie I was asking chat this question. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:03 Erik Torenberg In AI, do we think it will be different that sort of the biggest companies in the world in 10 to 20 years from now will be created, you know, after ChatGPT or, um, or will it be similar to that? 3 times in the scene
Taking Bold Bets: NIH and the Future of Biomedical Science
- ▶ 51:51 Vineeta Agarwala We heard that HHS, um, rolled out across, you know, agency-wide, um, an enterprise secure version of ChatGPT, which is, um, seems like a, a terrific achievement from the perspective of internal HHS and NIH operations even, right?
The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- ▶ 2:38 Alex Rampell Because it seems like that's what ChatGPT and others are getting into. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:20 Justine Moore But, um, teenage girls started using ChatGPT to upload photos of, like, Lana Del Rey at a concert, or Taylor Swift, like, snapped in a street-style photo or whatever, and asking, like, what is this hair barrette she's wearing?
- ▶ 12:12 Alex Rampell Asked a question on ChatGPT and then clicked purchase, and it actually is incorrect for Apple to say, ooh, ChatGPT, we owe you the entire, that drove the purchase. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:19 Alex Rampell You're going to just ask ChatGPT, and people are doing this right now, and ChatGPT has, you know, I think, what is it, eight hundred million weekly active users? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:23 Justine Moore And then sort of the most consideration end of the purchase, um, I think it's hard to have that be fully AI end to end, because while you may start doing your research online on, on ChatGBT or Gemini or any sort of new AI native property…
- ▶ 40:13 Alex Rampell I mean, obviously, ChatGPT is, I mean, they, they are an upstart to a certain extent, but it's not Amazon. 4 times in the scene
Faster Science, Better Drugs
- ▶ 17:07 Patrick Hsu If you went into Chachi BT or Claude and you basically, you know, you asked us some,
- ▶ 54:41 Patrick Hsu Openly and transparently assess these model capabilities both today and in subsequent years, follow them to get to that ChatGPT moment, right?
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 5:19 Anish Acharya Or even ChatGPT and Google.
- ▶ 11:53 Chris Dixon 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
- ▶ 13:57 Chris Dixon ChatGPT recommends you, you know, the algorithms feature you like, you know, and there's, of course, there's a soft sense of like a brand.
- ▶ 22:21 Chris Dixon Like on the one hand, as I'm, I'm a user of ChatGPT and it's amazing to just get an answer, right?
- ▶ 36:11 Chris Dixon I mean, prompt, like, I guess people are now calling it context engineering, not prompt engineering, which I think is a nice, or some people are, right, which is, I think is a nice rephrasing, because that is kind of what you're doing,…
- ▶ 41:47 Chris Dixon I mean, that's like literally zero people have died from ChatGPT so far as far as, you know,
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- ▶ 8:14 Mark Cuban And it's the same on other platforms as well, where you can just go to ChatGPT, Perplexity, whatever you use, or all of them, and ask questions.
- ▶ 17:48 Mark Cuban And she's like, well, okay, here are the four causes that you use chat GPT to find the four causes of the American revolution and write up what it says. 3 times in the scene
The Top 100 Most Used AI Apps in 2025
- ▶ 2:01 Olivia Moore For our first couple mobile lists, it was just a wave of companies that were direct copycats of ChatGPT.
- ▶ 4:29 Olivia Moore It was right behind ChatGPT. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:53 Olivia Moore And it's because a lot of, um, non-Chinese AI products like ChachiBT and Claude are banned in China because they have to follow specific regulations and policies and data capture rules that they're not wanting to or able to do if they're… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:56 Olivia Moore So we have ChatGPT, not a surprise, Perplexity, and Poe all made the list in what I call kind of general LLM assistance.
- ▶ 16:03 Olivia Moore You could even argue the same is true for a ChatGPT or Midjourney.