Claude
includes Claude Code, Claude Opus, Claude 4, Claude Sonnet, Claude 4.5, Claude 2, Claude 3, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Claude Cowork, Claude Haiku, Claude 4.1 Opus, Claude 5 and 2 more
26 statements across 18 episodes · 12 bullish · 4 bearish · 17 people on the record · first statement May 9, 2024 by Ben Horowitz · said 230 times in 81 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Anish Acharya (34), Olivia Moore (18), Marc Andreessen (13), Dylan Patel (9), Nathan Labenz (8), Aaron Levie (8), Martin Casado (7), Balaji Srinivasan (7)
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2026 117 mentions in 31 episodes 4 per episode
- Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- OpenClaw, Claude Code, and the Future of Software | Peter Yang on The a16z Show
- How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies
- Inside the Race to Measure Frontier Intelligence
- Can AI Learn Mathematical Intuition?
- Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
- Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
- 23 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 96 mentions in 39 episodes 2 per episode
- Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
- Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question
- Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
- The Top 100 GenAI Products, Ranked and Explained
- Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- Beyond Leaderboards: LMArena’s Mission to Make AI Reliable
- The Top 100 Most Used AI Apps in 2025
- 31 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 11 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Truth Terminal - The AI Bot That Became a Crypto Millionaire
- The 2025 AI Search Race
- Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
- Why Human Data is Key to AI: Alexandr Wang from Scale AI
- Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- Build Your Startup With AI
- Politics & the Future of Tech
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Claude, oldest first
May 9, 2024 neutral
Horowitz: Only researchers can tell top AI models apart
“I think if you look at the very top models you know, Claude and OpenAI and Mistral and Lama The only people who I feel like really can tell the difference as users amongst those models are the people who study them. You know, like they're getting pretty close.”
Sep 24, 2024 positive
Wang: AI labs will push deeper product integrations for higher margins
“I think an Anthropix launch of artifacts in Claude is like a it's like the first pin drop of this major theme of, you know all the labs are going to be pushing much deeper product integrations to be able to drive higher quality businesses.”
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 …”
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 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 …”
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,…”
Aug 14, 2025 positive
Lingelbach uses Claude with GitHub and Linear as an AI product manager
“One of these really exciting use cases of AI is like automating a lot of, you know, these processes that you have to go through as a founder. Like, I recently started using, like, Claude with, like, linear, and Notion, and GitHub integration as, like, a micro …”
Aug 14, 2025 positive
Lingelbach: Claude dominates coding, OpenAI general use, Gemini enterprise
“Claude has become kind of the de facto coding model, opening eyes, that general assistant. Gemini is, like, powering a lot of enterprise use cases now, just due to its, like, cost effectiveness, speed, and general capabilities.”
Nov 17, 2025 negative
Nov 17, 2025 positive
Dec 12, 2025 bearish
Dec 29, 2025
Dec 29, 2025
Dec 29, 2025 positive
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Mar 10, 2026 neutral
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 neutral
Apr 6, 2026
Apr 6, 2026 positive
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Aug 5, 2026 neutral
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…”
Aug 11, 2026
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…”