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DAVID SENRA Assertion Supported
Altman: OpenAI's GPT series originated from its unsupervised sentiment neuron paper
“You know, what started as the unsupervised sentiment neuron paper turned into GPT-ONE and then eventually GPT-whatever.”
Sam Altman Aug 23, 2026 ▶ 1:15:03 Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
DeepSeek's architecture is still built on a GPT-2 scaffold
“And you can actually, in fact, Take a GPT one or two model and with a few, I mean, few lines of code almost, you can transform it into the latest let's say deep seek version, 3.2 architecture. It's not like a big leap. It's still the same as scaffold.”
Sebastian Raschka Jan 29, 2026 ▶ 2:54 State of LLMs 2026: RLVR, GRPO, Inference Scaling — Sebastian Raschka
Nair: AI robotics is currently in its 'GPT-1 to GPT-2' era
“Yeah, like I would say that robotics is in kind of like the GPT-one to GPT-two area right now.”
Ashvin Nair Dec 30, 2025 ▶ 4:54 [State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
TBPN Assertion Not checkable as stated
Peebles: Video AI progressed from GPT-1 to GPT-3.5 equivalent in 18 months
“GPT-ONE really was Sora-ONE for this modality. And the progress we've made kind of in the last 18 months getting to this 3.5 moment, right, is really compressed compared to how long it took to go from GPT-ONE to 3.5 in the language domain.”
Bill Peebles Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 7:00 Sam Altman on Sora, Social Media, The Future of AI, and More
ACQUIRED Assertion Supported
OpenAI Introduced Pre-trained Transformers with GPT-1 in June 2018
“So in June of 2018, OpenAI releases a paper describing how they have taken the transformer and developed a new approach of pre-training them on very large amounts of general text on the internet, and then fine tuning that general pre-training to specific use c…”
David Rosenthal Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 2:07:33 Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hsu: Current AI biological models are at GPT-1 or GPT-2 capability levels
“I find it helpful to frame these in terms of like GPT one, two, three, four, five capabilities, right? And I think most people would agree we're somewhere between GPT one and two, right?”
Patrick Hsu Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 15:28 Faster Science, Better Drugs
LATENT SPACE Assertion Partly supported
Brockman: Arc Institute trained 40B DNA model on 13T base pairs
“I'd say that maybe the neural net we produced, you know, it's a 40 B neural net trained on, you know, like 13 trillion base pairs or something like that. The results to be felt like GPT one, maybe starting to be GPT two level, right? It's like accessible or, a…”
Greg Brockman Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 17:53 Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not checkable as stated
McGrew: Nobody believed next-token prediction would work before GPT-1
“And the core idea behind GPT-ONE is that if you have a transformer and you apply this super simple objective of guessing the next token, guessing the next word, that that would be enough signal that you could actually have something that would be able to gener…”
Bob McGrew Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 4:02 Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI · Y Combinator
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gomez: Ilya Sutskever envisioned compute scaling years before GPT-1
“They pave the way. Like, just sort of like a irrational conviction to this vision of scaling, and I think that, that was driven by, I remember talking to Ilya about this stuff way before GPT-One, you know, like in the Transformer times, around that time becaus…”
Aidan Gomez Aug 19, 2024 ▶ 34:20 Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
AI App Day-90 Retention Increased Consistently With GPT Model Upgrades
“There's an example of an AI-native companionship product where they actually did this test where they used GPT-one, GPT-two, GPT-three, and they actually tracked the cohort of user retention using each of the models. And it's very clear as the model quality im…”
Bryan Kim May 31, 2024 ▶ 5:05 7 Ways to Boost Retention (Both Pre- and Post-AI)
NO PRIORS Opinion
Brooks: Sora represents the 'GPT-1' stage of generative visual models
“I think where we are in the trajectory of Sora right now is like, this is the GPT-I of these, this new paradigm of visual models, and that we're really looking at the fundamental research into making these way better, making it a way better engine that can pow…”
Tim Brooks Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 19:42 No Priors Ep.61 | OpenAI's Sora Leaders Aditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles
ACQUIRED Assertion Supported
GPT parameter counts grew from 120 million in GPT-1 to 1.7 trillion
“GPT-I had roughly a hundred and twenty million parameters that it was trained on. GPT-II had 1.5 billion. GPT-III had a hundred and seventy five billion, and GPT-IV, OpenAI hasn't announced, but it's rumored that it has about 1.7 trillion parameters that it wa…”
David Rosenthal Sep 6, 2023 ▶ 41:11 Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired

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