Canvas
product on 10 shows · 11 statements across 5 episodes · said 13 times in 8 episodes since 2021
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the Official SaaStr Podcast 2 
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Nadella: Mature software converges into an inbox, messaging tool, and canvas
“So that's where I feel like all software, finally, when it grows up, it looks like an inbox and a messaging tool and a canvas with a blinking screen.”
Riley Brown reveals xAI is building a Canvas-like workspace feature
“Gemini has a Canvas feature. I know XAI is working on a Canvas feature, so they're all kind of adding this.”
Epstein: Canvas interfaces will be the standard AI agent UI by 2035
“10 years from now, this may be the standard to interact and control and monitor a lot of these agents. If they're truly everywhere and doing, you know, so much of the work that we as humans don't want to spend our time doing, this is going to be the way that w…”
Nguyen: OpenAI built Canvas and Tasks features mostly via synthetic data
“The way we made Canvas and tasks and, like, new, like, product features for HTTP was mostly done by synthetic training.”
Canvas was OpenAI's first project uniting research and applied engineering early
“Actually, like, Canvas is, like, one of the, I would say, like, the first project at OpenAI where researchers and applied engineers started working together from the very beginning of the product development cycle.”
OpenAI used o1 synthetic data to train Canvas commenting behaviors
“The way we used it is, like, we would use a one model to produce, to, like, simulate, like, use a conversation. Let's say, like, write me a document about XYZ, but then we used a one to, like, produce the document, and then we kind of injected, like, user prom…”
Nguyen: OpenAI introduced 'model designers' to define behavioral evals
“There's also like new role that we have like model designers. To kind of, like, go through some of the user feedback, maybe, or, like, think of, like, various, like, user conversations that should have triggered, like, under this circumstances, it should trigg…”
OpenAI Built Tasks in Two Months and Canvas in Four to Five
“For tasks, it took, like, I don't know, like, two months or so to go from, like, zero to one, basically. Oh, wow. For canvases was, like, four or five months, I guess. To go from zero to one.”
Nguyen: AI is not far from autonomous self-improving product development
“And I don't think, like, we are far away from that kind of, like, self-improvement, models becoming, like, self-improved via, like, then, like, the product development is basically kind of, like, self-improving, like, it's kind of, like, its own, like, organis…”
Nguyen: Explored a Claude collaborative workspace concept at Anthropic in 2023
“I was working on something similar to, like, Canvas-y, but for Claude at that time, in, like, twenty-twenty-three, it was the same similar idea of, like, Claude workspace where a human and a Claude could have, like, a shared workspace which is like a document.”
Nguyen: AI canvas interfaces could have happened two years earlier
“I think like those ideas could have happened like two years ago. Just like maybe, I don't think it was like a priority at that time. It was like very unclear. I think like AI landscape at that time was very nascent, if that makes sense.”