GPT 3.5

product on 29 shows · 24 statements across 21 episodes · said 249 times in 167 episodes since 2022

Latent Space 46 No Priors 26 TBPN 23 the a16z Podcast 18 Big Technology 16 20VC 14 Lenny's Podcast 13 the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 12 the MAD Podcast 12 All-In 11 A Product Market Fit Show 9 American Optimist 7 the Neon Show 7 Acquired 6 How I Built This 4 In Depth 3 the Startup Ideas Podcast 3 Invest Like the Best 3 Mixergy 2 Another Podcast 2 BG2 Pod 2 the Official SaaStr Podcast 2 WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 2 We Live to Build 1 My First Million 1 Sourcery 1 Catalyst 1 the Green Blueprint 1 Top Founders 1

Mentions by year, every show

tap a year for its mentions
0050301006020222023202420252026episodesmentions
0306020222023202420252026episodes it came up in
0013026020222023202420252026episodesmentions per episode

Latent Space 46No Priors 26TBPN 23the a16z Podcast 18Big Technology 1620VC 14Lenny's Podcast 13the MAD Podcast 1221 more shows

2026 34 mentions in 29 episodes 1 per episode
2025 85 mentions in 56 episodes 2 per episode
2024 69 mentions in 49 episodes 1 per episode
2023 58 mentions in 31 episodes 2 per episode
2022 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode

every mention on every show, scene by scene, with the transcript →

24 statements about GPT 3.5, every show

Altman: OpenAI gained conviction in reasoning from GPT-4, not 3.5
“I would say we got real conviction with GPT-IV. Not even 3.5.”
Sam Altman Jul 28, 2026 ▶ 6:22 Sam Altman on AGI, Compute, and Human Agency · Invest Like The Best
INVEST LIKE THE BEST Assertion Not checkable as stated
Altman: ChatGPT was almost named 'Chat with GPT-3.5' before launch
“In fact, it was originally gonna be called chat with GPT 3.5. And we didn't plan to be product. Didn't think it'd be a huge ship, but did think it would get people The world to like catch up with this and realize something was going on. And we mercifully renam…”
Sam Altman Jul 28, 2026 ▶ 37:57 Sam Altman on AGI, Compute, and Human Agency · Invest Like The Best
TBPN Insight
Coogan: Familiar social UIs make LLM outputs feel deceptively human
“There's something about wrapping the text in a UI that feels familiar, that feels more human, because you're used to reading, like, you're, it's like the medium is the message, maybe, like, you're seeing this LLM generated text in the Reddit UI, and that feels…”
John Coogan Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 14:28 Moltbook and the Zombie Internet
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
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Not checkable as stated
McCabe: Intercom built Fin beta within six weeks of GPT-3.5
“We were only six weeks into the launch of GPT. 3.5 when we actually had a beta version of fin.”
Eoghan McCabe Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 10:58 How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Supported
Turley: GPT-3.5 was in OpenAI's API for six months before ChatGPT
“The GPT. 3.5 model was in our API for, you know, at least six months prior to that. I think anyone could have built something like this.”
Nick Turley Aug 9, 2025 ▶ 37:19 Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dearsley: Only GPT-3.5 and Poor TTS Models Achieved Sub-2s Latency
“The only models that could run at real time speed, like we're talking like under two seconds of, you know, to response time were like GPT, 3.5. Or like really shitty text-to-speech models.”
Jordan Dearsley Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 16:44 His AI Voice Startup grew to $10M ARR in 1 Year—after 3 Years Stuck at $500K | Jordan Dearsley, F... · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vapi Encountered 70% Hallucination Rates Using GPT-3.5 for Early Voice Agents
“We would see, like, 70% hallucination rates, like, 3.5 at the time”
Jordan Dearsley Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 17:23 His AI Voice Startup grew to $10M ARR in 1 Year—after 3 Years Stuck at $500K | Jordan Dearsley, F... · PMF Show
TBPN What-if
Srinivas: Launching Perplexity around GPT-4 would have been too late
“You want to build at the right moment where, like, kind of, like, how we built perplexity around the GPT 3.5 time, not GPT four time. It would have been too late then.”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 25:53 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Supported
Weil: GPT-4o mini is 100x cheaper via API than GPT-3.5
“The original, I think the original, I don't know, what was it, GPT 3.5 or something, was like a hundred x the cost of GPT-Foro Mini today. In, in the API. So a couple years, you've gone down two orders of magnitude in in cost. For much more intelligence.”
Kevin Weil Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 1:15:51 OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Webster: DeepSeek's safety is on par with early GPT-3.5 from 2023
“Qualitatively, what we see is performance on par with GPT 3.5, which is to say, you know, in 2023, when open AI launched GPT, there were there were a bunch of like zero day, really simple jailbreaks and deep seek is essentially susceptible to all of those.”
AI Security Researcher Feb 28, 2025 ▶ 4:56 How to use DeepSeek safely
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chen: GPT-4.5 performance jump matches leap from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4
“It signifies an order of magnitude improvement over the last models, kind of commensurate with the jump from 3.5 to four.”
Mark Chen Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 1:03 OpenAI's Chief Research Officer on GPT 4.5's Debut, Scaling Laws, And Teaching EQ to Models
20VC Disclosure
Narayanan: GPT-4's 18-month training period created an illusion of rapid progress
“So I think, like a lot of people, I was fooled by how quickly after GPT-III.V, GPT-IV came out. It was just, you know, three months or so, but it had been in training for 18 months.”
Arvind Narayanan Aug 28, 2024 ▶ 44:24 Arvind Narayanan: AI Scaling Myths, The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today & The Future of Models | E1195 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
SAASTR Insight
Grill: Enterprises validate on frontier models before optimizing costs with smaller models
“You start and validate with the most reasonable And the most intelligent, the frontier model, in our case, GPT-FORO. But once you've validated that the use case is possible, then you try and cost optimize and look for if you can still accomplish that with the …”
Dominic Grill Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 16:31 Mastering SaaS Sales Hiring, Customer Retention, and Growth with OpenAI, Retool, and 20VC
20VC Assertion Supported
Levie: AI context windows grew 500x in 18 months
“The token context window was more or less, I think, 4000 tokens. So you kind of give it like a blog post to analyze just in the past, you know, week at Google IO Sundar announced a two million token window model or version of Gemini. So think about that. That'…”
Aaron Levie May 22, 2024 ▶ 8:00 Aaron Levie: How the Business Model of SaaS Changes Forever & Startups vs Incumbents:Who Wins?|E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Contradicted
Researchers Took Two Years to Discover GPT-3.5 Could Synthesize Dangerous Chemicals
“It took two years, for example, for researchers to figure out that GPT-III.V, the predecessor to GPT-IV, had research-grade chemistry knowledge, meaning you could ask it questions about, you know, how to synthesize dangerous chemicals, and it would tell you ho…”
Tristan Harris Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 26:50 The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 1
a16z Assertion Supported
Mensch: Mixtral matches GPT-3.5 performance
“So mixed trial is as similar performance to GPT, 3.5.”
Arthur Mensch Dec 28, 2023 ▶ 18:13 Safety in Numbers: Keeping AI Open
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mensch: Internal Mistral models rank among top three globally
“Internally We have stronger models that are in between 3.5 and four that are basically second or third, the second or third best model in the world.”
Arthur Mensch Dec 28, 2023 ▶ 18:19 Safety in Numbers: Keeping AI Open
NO PRIORS Insight
Gil: Existing models yield 10x to 100x gains without base model scaling
“In order to 10 X or even a hundred X use cases and usages for AI outside of that, there's things that could just be done on existing models today. So you don't need to wait for GPT seven or whatever. You could start with GPT four or GPT 3.5 and add these thing…”
Elad Gil Oct 5, 2023 ▶ 0:49 No Priors Ep. 35 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fine-tuned Llama 2 achieves performance comparable to GPT-3.5 and GPT-4
“Straight out of the bat, if you just use Lama tool directly, I don't think you could get like comparable performance, you know, with GPD, 3.5 or four today. But like with fine tuning, if you make that investment in curating your data set in running that fine t…”
Shreya Rajpal Sep 27, 2023 ▶ 22:48 Guardrails AI: The Playbook for Safer, Hallucination-Free LLMs — Shreya Rajpal Explains
NO PRIORS Prediction Held up
Guo: An open-source model matching GPT-3.5 will arrive within a year
“Like if I were a betting woman and I am, I bet there's a three, five level model in the open source ecosystem within a year.”
Sarah Guo Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 1:36 No Priors Ep. 14 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
Evans: Generative AI does not destroy search advertising economics
“I mean, this is kind of, you know, like the kind of the, like the first five minute reaction to GPT, 3.5 is this is a catastrophe for search advertising, which you kind of pull back and think, well, it's already not actually, you know, if I get, I can go to ch…”
Benedict Evans Apr 24, 2023 ▶ 24:03 Buzzfeed News, Reddit and OpenAI
Greathouse Fall: GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 feel like 'pretty much the same thing'
“GPT four, if you subscribe, GPT 3.5, if you Don't, which is pretty much the same thing as far as I can tell so far”
Jackson Greathouse Fall Mar 23, 2023 ▶ 12:21 From Zero to 100,000: How Jackson Greathouse Mastered Twitter Growth
ALL-IN Assertion Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: OpenAI's GPT-3.5 model is around 100 gigabytes in size
“The total size of the software package that runs the model is about a hundred gigabytes.”
David Friedberg Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 1:14:31 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more

← every entity, every show

Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, thousands of episodes across every show transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.