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Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 19:55 Olivia Moore OpenAI has been investing in it with Sora, and of course, Google with Veo, but the Chinese models are so good, because they can train on any data.
- ▶ 20:52 Anish Acharya Um, Sora's really interesting to me because it represented both a sort of a big step forward in the model, but also a really ambitious experiment around social, and there was, 14 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 5:58 Marc Andreessen You can see with Sora and video kind of state of the art.
Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
- ▶ 3:00 Justine Moore Um, and then Sora, obviously, Sora too. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:26 Olivia Moore Like since VO three and now Sora maybe dominates, but like since VO three, my social feeds have been like full of really realistic.
- ▶ 12:13 Justine Moore You have, like, if you're using it professionally, if you're marketing or in entertainment or storyboarding or whatever, um, you always want to be using what's at the forefront of the field, and so you're totally fine to go somewhere other…
- ▶ 16:19 Anish Acharya You know, there's some efforts around Sora too. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:14 Olivia Moore In my opinion, we've gone through dozens of things that they've launched or tried as new consumer products or new consumer interfaces like group chat, like Pulse, like Atlas, like Sora.
How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
- ▶ 30:01 Sherman Wu All of our different product lines, Sora, Codex, API, ChatGPT are just different interfaces and different ways of deploying this.
- ▶ 43:11 Sherman Wu Um, for, for my perspective, I think the biggest thing is I think our like image, uh, like our, our, um, I think called like the world simulation team, like the team that builds Sora and all that under Aditya, uh, is just extremely solid. 3 times in the scene
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 10:04 Anish Acharya How many people do you think, or, you know, generally as you think your audience, do you think it will be ninety-ten sort of consumption creation, or do you think that most people, I think one of the things we saw with Sora, for example,…
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 6:19 Anish Acharya And how can you have intuition if you're not making videos on Sora or vibe coding or, you know, there's just so much alpha hiding in plain sight.
- ▶ 46:43 Anish Acharya Sora two with the Sora two app.
Marc Andreessen on the State of Film and Hollywood
- ▶ 51:17 Marc Andreessen In this last couple weeks with the new version of Sora, um, and a lot of these other new things that are coming out, AI is going to make a whole new kind of filmmaker possible to exist for the first time, which is the filmmaker with no…
- ▶ 1:03:32 unnamed speaker Yeah, we were laughing, uh, offline about how someone, uh, was using Sora to make, like, uh, uh, something that we thought was better than South Park, and we're,
- ▶ 1:07:18 Marc Andreessen Uh, it was created entirely with Sora, uh, scene by scene.
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 29:31 Erik Torenberg Well, there's a question people are asking with Sora, which is, hey, if your friends can make as good content as, you know, professional content makers, which is a big if, but maybe you want to, maybe you want the best of both worlds,…
Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
- ▶ 5:13 Sam Altman I think you could say that on the surface, Sora, for example, does not look like it's AGI relevant, but
- ▶ 6:05 Erik Torenberg Say more about how Sora fits into your strategy, because there's some hullabaloo on, on X around, hey, um, you know, why devote precious GPUs to, to Sora, but is it a short-term, long-term trade-off, or are we so... 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:44 Sam Altman Actually, it's another thing that I think is cool about Sora.
- ▶ 30:02 Sam Altman In the case of Sora, we've heard from
- ▶ 37:19 Sam Altman The thing that's top of mind for me, like right now, just because it just launched and there's so much usage is what we're going to do for Sora. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:13 Sam Altman So for the dumbest example of Sora, since we've been talking about that, it's much easier to create a funny video than it's ever been before.
The State of AI: Growth, Fragmentation, and the Next Wave
- ▶ 4:21 Martin Casado Um, they were kind of the first to, like, real video with Sora, and they lost that.
The Future of AI Video: How Fal.ai is Making AI Video Faster & Easier
- ▶ 0:36 unnamed speaker I remember when Sora came out, even in our team, people were like,
- ▶ 11:54 Burkay Gur A few months after that, I think Sora got announced, and that was, like, definitely the right bet. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:44 unnamed speaker I remember when Sora came out, even in our team, people were like,
What You Missed in AI This Week (Google, Apple, ChatGPT)
- ▶ 10:03 Justine Moore The North Star of, like, text-based AGI, then what they're doing in video with Sora, all the image stuff they did, which we'll talk about a bit later with the four-oh image model, reasoning, all of those sorts of things.
The Top 100 GenAI Products, Ranked and Explained
- ▶ 8:58 Olivia Moore So we had three new video models on the list this time, um, Hyluo and Kling, which are both Chinese models, and then Sora, which was OpenAI's model that was announced, I guess, more than a year ago at this point, and finally was released.
- ▶ 26:06 Olivia Moore So that makes sense, and I think we can, we might expect to continue to see, I think, Sora in some ways was a little bit disappointing for some people in, and whereas like the Chinese video models were maybe better than a lot of people…
Zach Perret (Plaid) & Simon Khalaf (Marqeta): New Applications in Fintech
- ▶ 2:53 Zach Perret Um, so, you know, I, I think it's like, you know, a matter of, matter of months, and frankly, it's already happening, um, when we're gonna start seeing things like AI generated, ah, like Sora generated, ah, liveness checks, and the…
AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- ▶ 1:04:44 Ben Horowitz Um, and, you know, that is work that is being worked on by, uh, you know, we've, we've got a cell startup that's doing that, and then, you know, Elon is certainly doing that in exit.ai, um, you know, pursuing that kind of venue, whereas,…