Operating System

“So the way that we're going to need to reinvent what that kind of interactive interruptible work looks like in the agent layer, which is separate from the work going on, I think in the, like in the model layer. And in this like interactive model space, but I t…”

“And if we ever got into advertising with some of the chatbots or large language models, you'd say, would one of these frontier labs become an operating system? It doesn't look like they're going that way. So like, even there, you're going to have fragmentation…”

“Operating systems need to look different than they looked five years ago because it's not just you using them anymore.”

“All of these settings are available to parents at the operating system level, which is a much more resilient way to implement this sort of policy. So I think a lot of the noise in the ecosystem today and a lot of the concern obfuscates the fact that, like, the…”

“So if you think about it, the operating system of the future, you open it up and you see your regular popular apps you use all the time. Maybe it's X, maybe it's Instagram, whatever it is. And then you see maybe some cool apps that you discovered your friend, …”

“LLMs are kind of like a new operating system, right? So, the LLM is a new kind of a computer. It's setting, it's kind of like the CPU equivalent. The context windows are kind of like the memory, and then the LLM is orchestrating memory and compute for problem …”

“We didn't charge for the operating system on an ongoing basis. We charged for it one time. If you got a new version, we charged another time and we did the same thing for basic and everything else because At the time, you could think we were like a substitute …”

“Texas, you know, passed a law this week requiring age verification at the operating system level”

“Basically, they are now going to rebrand all of their operating systems based on the year it is today.”

“I think the disruption can happen on the OS side. I think the hardware side is very hard to differentiate on because all these suppliers that we have, they're all very concentrated, and they're very strong, and they're investing in their product roadmap, upgra…”

“I don't think of an LLM as an operating system. I think an LLM is much more like a CPU, right? It's an information processing unit.”

“BrowserBase can run browsers for way cheaper than you can if you're running a full-fledged OS with a GUI, you know, operating system. And I think that's just an advantage of the browser. It is like, browsers are like little OSs, and you can run them very effic…”

“I do believe that there will be AI embedded into everything to the point where we stop referring to it incessantly. And I think one of those points, one of those places will be the operating system.”

“A network effect is good, but it's not as good as that incredible platform durability.”

“The right measure of share, in my view, in that industry is your share of minutes spent staring at a smart screen. Like that, that, that's what the share of operating systems that you should care about.”

“If you think like an operating system, you can't just roll out new functionality. New functionality does nothing unless developers actually build with it. And so you have to sometimes build apps yourself to show them how to do it. You build educational materia…”

“In the future, it might just be part of the operating system to have a basic large language model, basic image generation model.”

“So one of the things we're doing is actually, we're creating, we're rebuilding our operating system so that it's white labeled, that other developers can actually build on top of our system.”

“So if I had to guess what the long-term outcome of layer one blockchains will be, I would expect it to be a similar duopoly as what we see in older operating systems.”

“The zero-day problem is something that's always going to be there. I think this is something that a lot of vendors don't actually realize, that no matter how much you lock down your operating system, there's always going to be a creative group out there that d…”

“Open source would be the canonical example, right? Where it's completely fringe stuff. I mean, it's Richard Stallman, extreme libertarian, you know, statements in the eighties at MIT, and now it's 95% of the operating systems in the world, right?”

“So this was kind of the takeaway for me building trial pay is that if you build the boring layer, and I mean boring in the best way possible, then you have almost unlimited optionality because you're the operating system.”