Web Browser

“Until the whole world is organized around CLIs and tools. There's still a lot of tasks we have to do manually on the web, on the browser, open tabs, fill up forms, click on things, upload stuff. All that stuff, if you want to automate, you need a browser. You …”

“The chatbot itself is kind of like trying to differentiate a web browser in that you've got an input box and an output box, and how can you make them different if the whole point is that you can type in anything and get anything out.”

“I think that the it's like agents might actually be the website of this, like of this era and like the browser hasn't been built yet.”

“So it's the front door now for how people work and how adversaries get in us through the browser.”

“I turned down the opportunity at the time in 1993 to implement censorship in the web browser you know, which would have been a completely different and, you know, very dystopian world.”

“No, actually AI Creates like a really interesting opportunity for the browser to be an investable service.”

“Yes, I think, of course, they will. No matter, almost, it's hard to imagine that the most ambitious company out there not doing something that, you know, perplexity is doing, other people are doing. Yeah, might got to be yes.”

“And if we want AI to do the same work that we're doing, we need AI to use a web browser to work the same way we do.”

“For tools and primitives with sufficient levels of complexity, you need to have a solution that's really bespoke to that primitive, you know, and I am sufficiently convinced that the browser is complex enough to deserve a primitive.”

“OpenAI is working on developing a browser”

“LLM is just the browser. In my mind, there's like LLM is not different than the browser. Like obviously it's very different, but it's the entry point to what you want to do.”

“I don't think browser is going to be disrupted because you get answers instead of links. People still want to browse. And get to a new website, get to a specific website, enter details, fill up forms, all those kinds of things.”

“Browsers now are stripping out those URLs we talked about. So you're just seeing a bigger and bigger percentage of people being counted as organic that actually came from a paid advertisement because when they got redirected to your website, they just, the bro…”

“I think he feels that it is, I wouldn't want to speak on his behalf, of course, but, you know, I think he feels the same. Like, this is the single largest transformational step in how we interact with data and information and each other, you know, since the ve…”

“Don't care about web browsers. I've never cared about web browsers. I never wanted to build a web browser.”

“Browsers print cash. There is a reason why they're owned primarily by Google, Apple, Microsoft. They're incredibly high margin. They're incredibly lucrative, low marginal costs. The cost of revenue is incredibly low, et cetera.”

“Web browsers were a very inefficient way to distribute software. Like they required lots of memory and lots of processing power and that it was not the way to make a, there'll be ways to do it a lot cheaper and manufacturers always picked the less expensive wa…”

“Web browsers are now, you know, there's four, and they work exactly the same, and there is no innovation in what the web browser is, because the innovation is all in the content.”

“What you see when the Amazon screen loads is not just a database output, there's an awful lot of work in that, and so, sorry, I'm being very incoherent here, but like, I don't think you can separate the client from the data like that. Certainly in, on the web,…”

“I just traded in the day, and then I would go home at night, and I was working on my own web browser.”

“It took 20 years for it to really become a thing for all of those enterprise apps to move.”

“We had 20 years of the web browser mouse keyboard, and that was like the monolith for how the internet worked. And now we've broken that apart, and we've got all these different shards all kind of floating around and landing in different places and being juggl…”

“One of them is it becomes ever more apparent that on mobile it's a smartphone OS that's the platform, or the OS that's the platform, whereas on, like, the desktop internet you targeted a web browser.”

“For 20 years, the web, the internet and the web were the same thing. And that's not the case on mobile. On the desktop, you had this box on the screen And everything happened in that box. And there was a little bit of fighting 15 years ago about who got to mak…”

“I just traded in the day, and then I would go home at night, and I was working on my own web browser.”

“I think if you look at you know, the browser model, when it comes to how sessions work, it's not an easy thing to build the experience that we built with shift within the browser, just the technical restrictions on how browsers are built.”