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Why Claude Feels Different (And What That Means for AI) | The a16z Show
- ▶ 12:25 unnamed speaker I'd say there's the, maybe, maybe the modern archetype is somebody like, you know, Boris is working on cloud code, or of course, Dario or, you know, Sam and some of his co-founders who are so extraordinarily technical.
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 2:48 Olivia Moore We had seen that Sam Altman tweet back in the Super Bowl Ad Wars era. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:28 Olivia Moore I think the approach we're seeing with ChatGPT, and Sam said this himself on Twitter, is like, we want to be the AI for everyone.
- ▶ 7:25 Olivia Moore And then the other thing probably that I'm most excited for this year that Sam Altman had kind of hinted at is this, like, authentication with ChatGPT layer.
- ▶ 31:48 Anish Acharya You know, it's really interesting because Sam said, I think six months ago on a pod, you know, somebody was asking him what has surprised you the most, and he said, it's that the world hasn't changed more.
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 0:43 Benedict Evans You've got Sam Altman saying, we've got PhD level researchers right now, and Demis Asibis says, no we don't.
- ▶ 5:25 Benedict Evans And so you've got Sam Altman saying, we've got PhD level.
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 39:29 Erik Torenberg Let, let's talk about some, some people who get an enormous amount done, and I'm curious what are lessons that we can draw from them, whether it's someone like Lonsdale, whether it's someone like Elon, whether it's someone like Sam Altman,…
- ▶ 46:49 Erik Torenberg And someone like, you know, Sam Allman is like a deal maker and a fundraiser, and a talent identifier, you know, 3 times in the scene
How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
- ▶ 9:36 Sherman Wu I, uh, I would say it's, I think one thing that really helps here is, uh, Sam and Greg, just from a, like, founder, you know, perspective, have since day one just been very principled in, in, in, in the way in which we approach this.
- ▶ 37:26 Sherman Wu And so it was interesting because like, I felt like over the last, there was before we launched the open source model, I know Sam feels this way as well. 2 times in the scene
Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering
- ▶ 1:04:57 Emmett Shear And it turned out that that was Sam again.
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 37:03 Eugenia Kuyda So we came to the office and Mira, who back then was actually leading partnerships, um, and Sam showed us GPT-III and I remember that was just 2 times in the scene
Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
- ▶ 21:13 Erik Torenberg Sam Allman earlier this week said that in 20, 28 or by 20, 28, he expects to have automated researchers.
- ▶ 35:46 David Sacks You know, we'll see what Sam say. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 41:51 Amjad Masad The more human angle of it, it felt like it regressed, and like you had this, uh, sort of, uh, Reddit pitchfork, uh, sort of, uh, movement against, against Sam and OpenAI because they felt like they lost a friend.
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 14:00 Augusto Marietti Actually, Sam Altman was one of the guys that wrote me a letter of recommendation when he was, um, uh, CEO of Loopt. 3 times in the scene
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 12:08 Erik Torenberg The, we just had Sam Altman here last week on the podcast.
- ▶ 24:01 Erik Torenberg It's crazy to think that for a day, Sam Allman was conceivably going to join Microsoft.
Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business
- ▶ 53:02 Ben Horowitz Um, so I, I do think that the most- By the way, Sam used that in reverse on Meta. 2 times in the scene
Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question
- ▶ 19:20 Nathan Labenz They, like, were tweeting Death Star images, uh, which Sam Altman later came back and said, no, you're the Death Star.
- ▶ 42:37 Nathan Labenz I think that, that's another interesting, you start to see why folks like Sam Altman are so focused on questions like energy and the seven trillion dollar build out, because these power law things are weird, and, you know, to get
- ▶ 1:27:41 Nathan Labenz I do think it's always really striking, whether it's Sergey or, you know, or Sam Altman or Dario, like, Dario probably has the best positive vision of the
From Vibe Coding to Vibe Researching: OpenAI’s Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- ▶ 55:54 Erik Torenberg Can we, uh, can we finish by finishing this game that we started when we gave Sam Altman advice?
This Week in AI: GPT-5 Ships, 4o Pulled Back, Grok Imagine Goes Social
- ▶ 7:15 Justine Moore And I think that's why Sam sort of rolled it back. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:18 Justine Moore Um, and Sam and Greg Brockman had been retweeting these posts for a while, which I was like, that's interesting because you think they, from a liability perspective, they want to avoid that.
GPT-5 and Agents Breakdown – w/ OpenAI Researchers Isa Fulford & Christina Kim
- ▶ 18:21 Erik Torenberg Going back to the, the, the discourse for a second, Sam said in his interview with Jack, he said, if you had said 10 years ago that we would get, you know, models at the level of, of sort of PhD students, um, I would think, wow, the world…
Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
- ▶ 15:00 Eric Vishria Because, you know, Sam Altman was reflecting on his podcast with, uh, with Jack Altman the other week. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:15 Noah Smith Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and like five other guys, ok?
- ▶ 19:20 Dwarkesh Patel So it's very easy for me to imagine if, like, Sam Altman decides to launch the probes, how, like, you know, breaking down Mars and sending out the, the virus probes, like, is, like, generates 20% growth. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:29 Dwarkesh Patel Maybe it's Sam Altman.
- ▶ 28:51 Noah Smith Um, but I guess my, my, my point here is, um, as long as it's, as long as AI still doesn't have property rights and it's, it's humans making all the economic decisions, be it Sam Altman and Elon Musk or some, you know, you and me, uh, then… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:21 Noah Smith , we, uh, we tax Sam Altman and Elon Musk. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:23 Dwarkesh Patel And didn't, um, didn't Sam have a thing where, uh, I think previously he said that, um, AI will take jobs.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 53:00 Balaji Srinivasan And actually this is where, you know, Collison and, and, um, and, and Altman have observed where are the Gen Z, where are the younger founders who are not in tech, they're in content. 2 times in the scene
Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
- ▶ 4:13 Balaji Srinivasan Both Eliezer and Altman, a bunch of other folks who built OpenAI, was almost like the same kind of sentiment that motivated people to build like the Sistine Chapel, which was sort of like an implicit Abrahamic monotheism, which was like…
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 1:39:04 Erik Torenberg It's, it's Sam Altman.
The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
- ▶ 28:32 Erik Torenberg Sam Allman once had the advice to startups, uh, last year.
Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
- ▶ 55:48 Aaron Levie I think, um, ah, so Sam, Sam Altman and Jack Altman had a podcast recently.
Crypto Experts Explain Stablecoins & the Future Financial System w/ Ali Yahya & Arianna Simpson
- ▶ 30:48 Erik Torenberg You know, it's funny, Sam Altman, of course, um, OpenAI, but also WorldCoin, so it has some familiarity, but what, what can you say about this?
Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 7:09 Chris Dixon There's a project that's co-founded by Sam Altman that we're investors in called WorldCoin, where they're trying to do the, the thesis is that in a world where AI can replicate humans and content, we need a, we need a way to prove you're…
How AI Is Changing Warfare, with Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf
- ▶ 14:56 Brian Schimpf And I think, you know, uh, Sam especially has been very clear that he supports our war fighters and he cares about having the best minds in AI working on national security and like who better exists to work through these hard problems.
Build Your Startup With AI
- ▶ 1:50 Marc Andreessen So, um, Sam, Sam Altman recently gave an interview, I think, uh, maybe Lex Friedman or one of these, one of the, one of the podcasts, and he actually said something I thought was actually quite helpful, or let's, let's see Ben, if you… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:22 Marc Andreessen So let me make the bulk, let me make the sort of extreme bull case for the hundred, because, okay, so, so the cynic would say that, of course, like, the cynic would say that Sam Altman would be saying they're gonna get a hundred times… 5 times in the scene
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 10:16 Marc Andreessen And, and, you know, today the, the strong form of this argument would be today you see this with, you know, everything up to it, including, you know, Sam Altman going out to raise seven trillion dollars to build, you know, sort of…
Polarizing Talent: Navigating 2023's Landscape
- ▶ 28:00 Steph Smith Um, it's kind of crazy that I've seen the spectrum go anywhere from it's the only perk that matters to someone like Sam Altman saying this is one of the
The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- ▶ 54:20 Steph Smith They are questions that I've actually seen Sam Altman from OpenAI talk about as 2 times in the scene
AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng
- ▶ 3:07 Steph Smith I happened to stumble upon a video with Paul Graham and Sam Altman from 2013 YC office hours.
- ▶ 53:54 Steph Smith I also heard, um, Sam Altman say, which I thought was like an interesting frame. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Beyond One Size Fits All for Startup Employee Options
- ▶ 29:26 Sonal Chokshi Okay, so one of the two really important themes that came up for me in, in the nuances of this conversation that I think are lost in the current dialogue are this notion of one, and actually, you know, the CEO of Quora, I forgot to…
a16z Podcast | Guiding Startup Culture -- The Genius ISMs
- ▶ 20:06 Tom Lehman You can talk to Sam Altman.