ChatGPT

also referred to as: chat gpt

includes ChatGPT Pulse, ChatGPT Pro, ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Health, ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Work, ChatGPT Canvas, ChatGPT Agent, ChatGPT Deep Research, ChatGPT Search, ChatGPT Atlas, ChatGPT Image II and 6 more

196 statements across 104 episodes · 73 bullish · 59 bearish · 47 people on the record · first statement Jan 25, 2023 by Yann LeCun · said 1,563 times in 211 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Alex Kantrowitz (1028), Ranjan Roy (146), M.G. Siegler (65), Ed Zitron (24), Greg Brockman (18), Gary Marcus (15), Olivia Moore (14), Joanna Stern (14)

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Everything said about ChatGPT, oldest first

Jan 25, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
LeCun: Most core ChatGPT techniques originated at Google and Meta
“Most of the technology underlying techniques used in ChatGPT have been invented at Google and Meta.”
Yann LeCun Jan 25, 2023 ▶ 17:50 Is ChatGPT A Step Toward Human-Level AI? — With Yann LeCun, Meta Chief AI Scientist
Jan 25, 2023 bearish
Opinion
LeCun: ChatGPT is not a major step toward human-level AI
“The short answer is it's not a, Particularly big step towards you know, more like human, human level intelligence.”
Yann LeCun Jan 25, 2023 ▶ 1:21 Is ChatGPT A Step Toward Human-Level AI? — With Yann LeCun, Meta Chief AI Scientist
Feb 23, 2023 positive
Opinion
Lemoine: Bing Chat deserves more credibility than ChatGPT due to search grounding
“You would give Bing ChatGPT more credulity than something like ChatGPT since it's at least grounded in Bing search results, and it can have some kinds of citations of what it's saying.”
Blake Lemoine Feb 23, 2023 ▶ 0:14 Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots
Feb 23, 2023 positive
Opinion
Marcus: ChatGPT succeeded over Galactica due to RL guardrails
“Part of the reason why ChatGPT succeeded where Galactica didn't is Galactica didn't really have those guardrails at all, and so it was just, you know, very easy to get it to say terrible things, and it's harder to get ChatGPT to say terrible things because tha…”
Gary Marcus Feb 23, 2023 ▶ 16:19 Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots
Aug 3, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wood: AWS customers saw their proprietary IP output back by ChatGPT
“We've seen actual customers see their own IP come back to them from the model, and that is terrifying to enterprise customers, where the IP is the crown jewels”
Matt Wood Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 15:11 Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
Aug 3, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wood claims hundreds to thousands of CIOs have banned ChatGPT internally
“THERE ARE HUNDREDS, MAYBE THOUSANDS OF CIOs THAT ARE TELLING THEIR WHOLE ORGANIZATION NOT TO USE CHATGPT.”
Matt Wood Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 14:46 Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
Aug 3, 2023 negative
Opinion
Wood: Chatbots give an appearance of intelligence but fail at complex tasks
“And they give the appearance of intelligence, but they actually are not very good today at completing complex tasks.”
Matt Wood Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 6:21 Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
Sep 6, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
Ramaswamy: ChatGPT's user growth has flattened out
“ChatGPT, you know, has had growth, but it has sort of flattened out.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Sep 6, 2023 ▶ 29:47 Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
Sep 6, 2023 neutral
Opinion
Ramaswamy: Rapid rollout of ChatGPT and AI products surprised Google
“It's very clear that the crazy popularity of ChatGPT and the speed at which others, including Neva, rolled out Pretty credible AI powered products. I think was pretty surprising for them.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Sep 6, 2023 ▶ 1:27 Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
Sep 6, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ramaswamy: Google's delay in generative AI was an internal choice, not technical
“And remember Google's lack of progress in generative AI like, you know, that's internally driven. Nothing stopped them from creating ChatGPT. They chose not to.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Sep 6, 2023 ▶ 25:26 Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
Oct 25, 2023 bullish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Waymo ranks alongside iPhone and ChatGPT as top tech experiences
“I put it up there with iPhone, chat GPT and Waymo cars, the three most amazing experiences I've had with tech in my lifetime.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 25, 2023 ▶ 23:47 Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough
Oct 30, 2023 negative
What-if
Nemade: Google would have taken 2-4 years to ship AI without ChatGPT
“Had ChatGPT not happened, I predict that It would have taken at least two to three to four years for Google to get there just because of the bureaucracy and the speed at which things move.”
Gaurav Nemade Oct 30, 2023 ▶ 39:04 Why Google Never Shipped LaMDA Its ChatGPT Predecessor
Oct 30, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Nemade: Bing gained only about 1% market share post-ChatGPT
“Bing maybe gained, like, one percent market share before and after ChatGPT.”
Gaurav Nemade Oct 30, 2023 ▶ 40:50 Why Google Never Shipped LaMDA Its ChatGPT Predecessor
Nov 23, 2023 bearish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT sessions fell 29% during three summer months in 2023
“Sessions down 29%. Three straight months of declining usage in the summer.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 14:31 AI Keynote: Six Bold Predictions About The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
Nov 23, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Broad AI chatbots will not achieve long-term success without AGI
“It's just not a model for a product. That has long-term success if we don't reach general, ah, generative, ah, sorry, general artificial intelligence.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 15:04 AI Keynote: Six Bold Predictions About The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
Nov 23, 2023 bullish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Reached 100 Million Users Faster Than Any Consumer Product
“ChatGPT becomes the fastest growing consumer product in history. More than a hundred million people in two months use that thing”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 0:40 AI Keynote: Six Bold Predictions About The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
Dec 13, 2023 negative
Opinion
Current version of ChatGPT is actually 'not very good'
“You know, today they have, like, ChatGPT. It's, like, not very good.”
Sam Altman Dec 13, 2023 ▶ 13:29 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: As We Get Closer to Superintelligence, Everyone Gets More Stressed & Anxious
Feb 15, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Srinivas: OpenAI's ultimate value will lie in ChatGPT, not model APIs
“I think OpenAI's value will lie in the ChatGPT product itself. The end-to-end product, and they're going to face competition there, too.”
Aravind Srinivas Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 42:03 Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google
Feb 15, 2024 bullish
Insight
Srinivas: AI search is creating a new conversational query behavior
“There is like a new segment of searches that these products like perplexity or ChatGPT are creating, which is like, you know, making people actually ask well-informed questions because we were not asking questions until now. We were just entering keywords. Lik…”
Aravind Srinivas Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 15:17 Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google
Feb 28, 2024 positive
Insight
Catanzaro: ChatGPT signaled an era where applied AI research dominates academics
“To me, that was a statement that we were entering a new era of AI where applied research starts to dominate, you know, so Chachapiti didn't come out with a fully fledged academic paper that described exactly what they did to make it so awesome. But because the…”
Bryan Catanzaro Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 50:55 NVIDIA's Artifical Intelligence Moat & Origins — With Bryan Catanzaro
Apr 4, 2024 neutral
Prediction Held up
Lanzone: All major search engines will route queries between AI and links
“This is clearly whether it's Bing, Or ChatGPT standalone or perplexity standalone with hitting all the databases they're hitting or now Apple and Google and how they're going to do it. They're all going to be doing that the same way. And so for some queries, i…”
Jim Lanzone Apr 4, 2024 ▶ 47:58 Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Web is Still a Great Business
May 9, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Clark: US and UK AI Safety Institutes Are Testing Frontier AI Systems
“The US and UK are not, don't have regulatory powers. Will they be third parties that test out systems like Claude or ChatGPT or Gemini for national security risks and hold companies accountable to them? Yes. Like I'm in discussion with them today.”
Jack Clark May 9, 2024 ▶ 1:11:10 Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark
May 22, 2024 positive
Opinion
Levie: OpenAI is intellectually honest and its demos work in practice
“But I'd say ChatGPT and OpenAI generally have been incredibly intellectually honest kind of You know, stewards in this space. And so when you see a demo from them, it tends to actually, you know, work like that in practice.”
Aaron Levie May 22, 2024 ▶ 5:06 Box CEO Aaron Levie — What Cheaper, Faster, and Smarter AI Gets Us
May 22, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Levie: OpenAI cut high-quality token costs tenfold in 18 months
“And the fact that we've now done that, or not we, I mean, OpenAI has basically done that, you know, I don't know, four or five times in the past 18 months. So we're already maybe a 10th of the total amount of cost of a kind of fairly high quality token just in…”
Aaron Levie May 22, 2024 ▶ 10:02 Box CEO Aaron Levie — What Cheaper, Faster, and Smarter AI Gets Us
May 22, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
Levie: AI context windows improved 500x in 18 months
“And at the start of ChatGPT in let's call it November of twenty-twenty-two, the context window was somewhere on the order of about 4000 tokens. Just yesterday Sundar announced two million tokens on the latest Gemini model. So when you think about it there's li…”
Aaron Levie May 22, 2024 ▶ 4:00 Box CEO Aaron Levie — What Cheaper, Faster, and Smarter AI Gets Us
Jul 17, 2024 negative
Insight
Siemiatkowski: LLMs regress toward the average and fail at breakthrough marketing copy
“If I want some amazing copy that, you know, articulates what Klana does that's different, I would not rely on ChatGP to do that. I would rely on a human because it, a human has a bigger, is much better at kind of being far-fetched and do something crazy and ou…”
Sebastian Siemiatkowski Jul 17, 2024 ▶ 31:23 Did Klarna Really Automate 700 Jobs With AI? — With Sebastian Siemiatkowski
Jul 24, 2024 neutral
Insight
AI models lack consciousness because they cannot refuse requests
“You know, while it may appear that a Claude or a ChatGPT is generating stuff, at the end of the day, it's just predicting the next word, right, the next word after that. It has no consciousness because it cannot say no to you. It can only predict an answer tha…”
Thomas Domke Jul 24, 2024 ▶ 21:06 GitHub CEO Thomas Domke -- The One-Person, Billion-Dollar Startup
Aug 30, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
ChatGPT Reaches 200 Million Weekly Active Users
“So now this is the first official new number that we've gotten. It opened, that ChatGPT is doing two hundred million weekly active users.”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 7:30 OpenAI Raising At $100 Billion Valuation
Sep 5, 2024 negative
Opinion
Plummer: ChatGPT overrepresented AI maturity for enterprise applications
“The way it hurt is I think it sort of overrepresented how mature these technologies are and how ready they are for enterprise applications.”
Ben Plummer Sep 5, 2024 ▶ 5:00 How AI Will Improve Business Efficiency and Productivity In the Workplace – With Ben Plummer
Sep 11, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: Agentic Siri and ChatGPT Voice Parity Aren't Coming Anytime Soon
“And the things that we've been promised around agentic AI running across various apps and taking actions and being able to use Siri in a meaningful way on par with ChatGPT audio or ChatGPT voice. None of that is coming anytime soon.”
Ranjan Roy Sep 11, 2024 ▶ 4:15 iPhone16 Arrives + Apple Intelligence Delays
Oct 11, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Projects 100x Revenue Surge by 2029 Driven by ChatGPT
“Chat GPT is what open AI expects to lead its revenue which it expects to increase, it expects revenue, its revenue to increase a hundred fold by 20, 29. And the bulk of that revenue is going to be coming from ChatGPT according to OpenAI's projections”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 0:41 OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
Oct 11, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Must Essentially Reach AGI to Justify Projected Costs
“So how much better does ChatGPT need to get to start to justify those costs? I would say like, it would basically have to be AGI.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 19:15 OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
Oct 11, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Weinberg: Bear Case Suggests OpenAI Revenue Driven by Experimenting Early Adopters
“I think right now the bear case is like a lot of this revenue is from early adopters who are, you know, sort of playing around with the stuff.”
Cory Weinberg Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 21:09 OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
Nov 15, 2024 bearish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Chegg stock is down 99 percent, erasing $14.5 billion in value
“Chegg stock is down 99% from early twenty-twenty-one, erasing some 14.5 billion of market value.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 31:03 Is Generative AI Plateauing?, Booming Bluesky, Apple’s Smart Glasses Play
Nov 15, 2024 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Kantrowitz: Google's experimental Gemini 1114 model currently tops the Chatbot Arena leaderboard
“They have a new experimental Gemini model. It's called Gemini exp one, four. And Do you know about, ah, Chatbot Arena where they test which is the best LLMs? It's currently sitting at the top of Chatbot Arena and kicking the butt of ChatGPT for O, O-one Previe…”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 22:39 Is Generative AI Plateauing?, Booming Bluesky, Apple’s Smart Glasses Play
Nov 27, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Benioff: Consumer AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini are commodity products
“They're kind of commodities at this point. You know, Google has Gemini, there's ChatGPT, there's u.com, there's Perplexity, there's Copilot, there's all these things, you know, they're just on your phone, you're just talking to the, basically the same data set…”
Marc Benioff Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 19:24 Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, and The Future of Your Job
Dec 11, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wang predicts AI agents will have a 'ChatGPT moment' in 2025
“Yeah, I do think that, yeah, I think that 20, 20 25 is really going to be the year where we start to see some kind of very basic primordial AI agents really start working in the consumer realm and creating sort of real consumer adoption. You know, another way …”
Alexandr Wang Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 23:12 AI Predictions for 2025: Geopolitics, Agents, and Data Scaling — With Alexandr Wang
Jan 5, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Newton: Gemini is clearly the worst among ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini
“The three big models that I use and pay for every single week, some of them every day, some of them many times a day, are ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Of those, I would say Gemini has clearly been the worst.”
Casey Newton Jan 5, 2025 ▶ 23:56 Bold Predictions For Tech and AI in 2025 — With Casey Newton
Jan 5, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Newton: OpenAI reported ChatGPT reached 300 million weekly users
“Recently OpenAI told us that ChatGPT had three hundred million users a week.”
Casey Newton Jan 5, 2025 ▶ 2:20 Bold Predictions For Tech and AI in 2025 — With Casey Newton
Jan 15, 2025 neutral
Insight
Kuyda: AI companion users value personality consistency over newer models
“When it comes to relationships, to things that matter most. It's not always about better. When you go to ChatGPT, you almost always want a better model, and it doesn't matter that it changed personality that much. But with Replica, you have to stay, you have t…”
Eugenia Kuyda Jan 15, 2025 ▶ 27:15 Could Your AI Agent Also Be Your Lover? — With Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda
Jan 27, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI has 300M ChatGPT users but loses billions annually
“We have OpenAI who has ChatGPT with three hundred million users, which is okay. But still losing billions a year to run that thing.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 33:14 How DeepSeek Changes AI Research & Silicon Valley w/ M.G. Siegler
Jan 29, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hoffman: Voice will very soon become the main computing interface
“A hundred percent. One of the party tricks I do is I bring out my phone and put ChatGPT on audio mode to show people. Because part of when we learn to use phones or PCs, we've learned, you know, with GUIs and everything else, we've made it softer, but there's …”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 49:19 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
Jan 31, 2025 positive
Insight
Enterprise AI ROI requires targeted micro-models arbitrating between large foundational models
“Can you now devolve or basically create a micro model that's very targeted to your business? That basically was a recipe. So how do I look at what's happening within, you know, within a CHATGP versus Gemini? How do I start looking at Lama differently? And that…”
Antoine Shagoury Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 28:32 Implementing AI In The Real World — With Kyndryl's Antoine Shagoury
Feb 5, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Kantrowitz recently paid $200 for a one-month ChatGPT Pro subscription
“I just paid 200 dollars for ChatGPT, which is a lot more than I ever thought I would for a month”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 5, 2025 ▶ 1:00:04 NVIDIA VP Rev Lebaredian Talks Plan To Build AI That Understands The Real World
Feb 5, 2025 positive
What-if
Lebaredian: ChatGPT would not exist without NVIDIA's early LLM software work
“Had we had not done that, I don't think we would have had ChatGPT.”
Rev Lebaredian Feb 5, 2025 ▶ 39:56 NVIDIA VP Rev Lebaredian Talks Plan To Build AI That Understands The Real World
Feb 7, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT hit 3.7B monthly visits in late 2024, dusting Bing
“Bing had 1.5 billion per month in February, 20, 24. It had all of 1.85 billion per month in October, 20, 24. You look at ChatGPT starts with 1.6 billion and now it has 3.7 billion per month. So it's left Bing in the dust. And by God, I mean, the rest that you …”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 5:11 Boom Times For ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Deep Research, AI Super Bowl
Feb 7, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT web traffic flatlined for a year starting early 2023
“ChatGPT had been flatlining. The growth had just completely stopped. So you see a very, very quick run up to a hundred million Monthly users or on the chart that we're looking at now from similar web, they're measuring web traffic. So about two billion visits …”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 1:25 Boom Times For ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Deep Research, AI Super Bowl
Feb 7, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: DeepSeek overnight captured one-third of ChatGPT's daily traffic
“You see last week, so January, 28th, chat GPT at 139.3 web and mobile visits. Deep seek at 49 million. So it cut About, like, further than any other company has been able to cut into the lead of OpenAI, and it had about a third of the traffic that ChatGPT took…”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 9:23 Boom Times For ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Deep Research, AI Super Bowl
Feb 7, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Roy: Generative AI suffers a branding problem among non-tech consumers
“Oh, man, I go back and forth, though, because the other side of this is these, this generative AI has a branding problem. Like, when I still talk to most non-tech friends and family, they still associate generative AI content as bad. And, like, that's the whol…”
Ranjan Roy Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 56:11 Boom Times For ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Deep Research, AI Super Bowl
Feb 12, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Reached 300M Users Following Advanced Voice Announcement
“They went from a hundred million to three hundred million users. They went from two billion web visits in a month to four billion after flatlining for a while.”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 1:02 His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff
Feb 12, 2025 positive
Insight
Interviewees Are More Candid With AI Agents Than Human Reporters
“When it comes to people asking questions or conversing with ChatGPT, there's a quality of, you don't necessarily feel like there's someone there, and you might be a little more intimate than you would have otherwise. And that can be very valuable in an intervi…”
Evan Ratliff Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 32:39 His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff
Feb 12, 2025 bearish
Insight
Extended LLM Interactions Expose Generic Predictive Training Over Sentience
“The more that you talk to it, the more generic it feels to you. The more you can actually feel The training data, the sort of, like, distilling down the training data and the predictive aspect. Like, oh, it's trying to predict what a human would say in this gi…”
Evan Ratliff Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 37:29 His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff
Feb 25, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Voice capability helped ChatGPT grow from 100M to 300M users
“Effectively the ability to talk to chat GPT with voice or even the promise of it helped chat GPT go from a hundred million users to three hundred million.”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 25, 2025 ▶ 16:05 Hands On: Building Customer Service AI Agents — With Jotform's Aytekin Tank
Mar 19, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
LeCun: Meta AI users are less active than ChatGPT users
“Yeah, but they, but it's not used as much as ChatGPT. Right. So the users are not as intense.”
Yann LeCun Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 22:06 Why Can't AI Make Its Own Discoveries? — With Yann LeCun
Mar 29, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT becoming a generic verb gives OpenAI a compounding advantage
“ChatGPT is now a verb like Google or, you know, basically people call it ChatNow. That is just this huge compounding advantage that OpenAI is going to have and releases like this just help it push even further forward.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 29, 2025 ▶ 15:37 OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
Mar 29, 2025 neutral
Opinion
McCullough: OpenAI intentionally sparked the Ghibli controversy for viral marketing
“And again, I think that they are, this is not accidental. They are Writing a line here of, they know what can go viral, and they know what will get attention, and even the questions and the controversy about the legality of it, and is this where it's going? Li…”
Brian McCullough Mar 29, 2025 ▶ 5:36 OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
Mar 29, 2025 neutral
Opinion
McCullough: ChatGPT's Ghibli Style Suggests Training on Millions of Miyazaki Frames
“No, this is dead on, which suggests that they trained it, possibly, on millions of cells and frames of Miyazaki movies.”
Brian McCullough Mar 29, 2025 ▶ 4:04 OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
Mar 29, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT has 400M users and no competitor is close
“They have chat GPT, which is a hit, four hundred million users. Nobody else comes close and they're pushing forward.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 29, 2025 ▶ 12:32 OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
Apr 2, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Reached 500M Weekly Active Users, Adding 400M in One Year
“Five hundred million people use ChatGPT every week. It's not just the number, but it's the velocity to which they got there in March, 20, 24. So a year ago, they had a hundred million users vetted four hundred million. In in a year, which is crazy.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 2, 2025 ▶ 18:28 OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
Apr 2, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Reached 20M Paid Subscribers, Up From 15.5M
“ChatGPT revenue surges 30% in just three months. And the company, they say, has hit twenty million paid subscribers. This is something that OpenAI has disclosed. That's up from 15.5 million at the end of last year.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 2, 2025 ▶ 18:50 OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
Apr 2, 2025 neutral
What-if
Kantrowitz: OpenAI could be profitable by halting model scaling for efficiency
“If open AI stopped development today and just found a way to make what's in ChatGPT more efficient, they could run a profitable business with that five hundred million or that billion users.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 2, 2025 ▶ 16:01 OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
Apr 16, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Meta AI has 600M users compared to OpenAI's 400M
“And I was just speaking with Jan LeCun, the chief AI scientist at Meta, and he said there's Six hundred million people using their AI assistant within their apps compared to four hundred million of open AI's chat GPT.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 16, 2025 ▶ 11:52 Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao
Apr 19, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: AI Memory Will Cause Users to Feel Love for Chatbots
“It is going to make so many people Feel like they've developed friendships with these bots, companions, companionship with these bots, and even love towards these bots, which I spoke about with Mustafa Suleiman a couple of weeks ago.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 19, 2025 ▶ 28:19 Is OpenAI's o3 Model AGI? Is AI The New Social Media? Zuck's Revealing Testimony
Apr 28, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Shopping inside ChatGPT will become default behavior for many
“When you have such a deep relationship with ChatGPT, what are you going to do? You're going to trust what it says the same way that you trust Amazon Prime, and that trust is going to make you want to, instead of going to other websites, just buy right within C…”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 49:51 Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck
Apr 28, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT web code reveals hidden Shopify checkout and native shopping
“There are new code strings in ChatGPT's public web bundle, including buy now, price, and shipping fields, Product offer ratings, and a Shopify checkout URL, which indicate that OpenAI is wiring a native purchase flow within the Assistant.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 46:59 Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck
May 5, 2025
Insight
Kantrowitz: AI adoption succeeds when tied directly to performance reviews and comp
“I think that when you integrate something into performance reviews, that's when it gets done. Right. I think that like performance management is what drives a lot of the tech industry comp. I mean, as you might imagine, money matters. And if your pay is contin…”
Alex Kantrowitz May 5, 2025 ▶ 27:35 The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic
May 14, 2025 negative
Opinion
Bender: ChatGPT only mimics language form and fails genuine information needs
“What ChatGPT can do is it can mimic human language use across many different domains. And so it can produce the form of a poem. It can produce the form of a travel itinerary. It can produce the form of a Wikipedia page on the history of some event. It is an ex…”
Emily M. Bender May 14, 2025 ▶ 24:10 AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thinking
May 19, 2025 negative
Opinion
Chatbot consolidation is worse for information health than previous distribution models
“It's one of six or seven, let's call it. It's a real problem. It's a huge problem. It's a, from a pure kind of like information health standpoint, it's far worse than anything we have seen”
Ranjan Roy May 19, 2025 ▶ 10:33 Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
May 19, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Wikipedia is effectively finished now that ChatGPT has eclipsed its traffic
“To me, that's basically like Wikipedia is done.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 19, 2025 ▶ 24:38 Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
May 19, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
ChatGPT surpasses Wikipedia to become the fifth most-visited website globally
“ChatGPT has overtaken Wikipedia. So ChatGPT is site number five, and Wikipedia is eight.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 19, 2025 ▶ 24:33 Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
May 19, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
ChatGPT traffic grew 13% month-over-month while other top websites declined
“If you look at the traffic change month over month, Google, at YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, all going down. ChatGPT up, 13% month over month. Then everything else that follows, X, WhatsApp, Wikipedia, Reddit, Yahoo Japan, All going down. And so, ChatGPT stand…”
Alex Kantrowitz May 19, 2025 ▶ 1:54 Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
May 27, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Roy: Anthropic's Coding Pivot Is a Bad Move Against Entrenched Rivals
“So I think it's like, it's the easy way out. And I think they're taking the easy way out. And I think it's gonna be very bad for them because Then you're competing against Cursor, Replit, ChatGPT, Gemini, like every other like either coding first services that…”
Ranjan Roy May 27, 2025 ▶ 30:48 OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
May 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Boureau: ChatGPT readily provides bogus information on scientific topics
“ChatDpt is very happy giving you bogus information sometimes, because some people believe it's true and science is complicated”
Y-Lan Boureau May 28, 2025 ▶ 58:11 She Wants AI To Help You Thrive, Not Just Keep You Company — Y-Lan Boureau
May 28, 2025 negative
Opinion
Boureau: ChatGPT is too permissive and unopinionated to be an effective coach
“ChatGPT knows lots of good things, but ChatGPT is very permissive and not so opinionated necessarily about what's good.”
Y-Lan Boureau May 28, 2025 ▶ 57:13 She Wants AI To Help You Thrive, Not Just Keep You Company — Y-Lan Boureau
May 30, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
LeCun: Meta AI users are less intense than ChatGPT users
“Yeah, but they, but it's not used as much as ChatGPT, so the users are not as intense, if you will.”
Yann LeCun May 30, 2025 ▶ 3:46 Yann LeCun: We Won't Reach AGI By Scaling Up LLMS
Jun 3, 2025 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2028
Kantrowitz: Grammarly will go extinct as LLMs replace grammar tools
“And here's my hot take on Grammarly. I think they're going to go extinct. I think I wouldn't call them a rapper because they were around before large language models, but all this logic that they painstakingly built into their program and all the AI developmen…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 38:08 Mass AI-Driven Unemployment, NVIDIA Surges, CEOs' AI Avatars Unleashed
Jun 9, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Judge orders OpenAI to preserve ChatGPT chats for NYT lawsuit
“The New York Times is telling OpenAI, has gotten a judge to rule in favor of this position, that OpenAI has to preserve its chats, because people who are using OpenAI's ChatGPT to, ah, go around the New York Times paywall, ah, may delete those chats. And there…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 52:26 Apple’s AI 'Gap Year' at WWDC?, Elon Vs. Trump Goes Nuclear, NYTimes’ OpenAI Attack
Jun 11, 2025 positive
Opinion
Siegler: Apple should outsource Siri to ChatGPT while rebuilding it
“OpenAI already did it, and so either Apple just, you know, fully, more fully bakes it in, which I still think, by the way, they should probably do with Siri while they rebuild Siri, right? Just totally outsource it to ChatGPT.”
M.G. Siegler Jun 11, 2025 ▶ 25:20 What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations —  With M.G. Siegler
Jun 11, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Siegler: ChatGPT is the only proven consumer generative AI product right now
“You hit on some of the other things, generative stuff, you know, some of the video stuff is cool, but it's so early that it's like, it, it's just not there right now. And so the only thing that is there right now is really ChatGPT.”
M.G. Siegler Jun 11, 2025 ▶ 25:02 What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations —  With M.G. Siegler
Jun 23, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: Generative AI Will Change Learning, but People Won't Get Dumber
“So for me, I think our brains, the way we learn is going to change. I think that's good. We have to adapt the way like learning is done for generative AI, but I don't think people are going to get dumber.”
Ranjan Roy Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 23:15 OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
Jun 23, 2025 negative
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Combining AI with Current Education Systems Will Cause a Disaster
“I am, I'm hopeful that we can find a way to teach better, but I think if you marry this style of learning with our current education system, you end up getting a disaster.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 24:56 OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
Jun 23, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: MIT Study Found ChatGPT Users Showed Lowest Brain Engagement
“The study divided 54 subjects, 18 to thirty-nine-year-olds, From the Boston area into three groups and asked them to write several SAT essays using OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google search engine, and nothing at all. Researchers used an EEG. I guess that's, yeah, it's …”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 20:26 OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
Jul 1, 2025 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Anugas: Enterprises will avoid public LLMs like ChatGPT for isolated data stores
“One of the things that's important that we really want everyone to see is a future where you're not sending your data to an LLM. You're not going to load your data into chat GPT. You're not going to do that. Okay. You're going to want that in an isolated data …”
Greg Anugas Jul 1, 2025 ▶ 33:02 An AI Brain For Your Business?
Jul 9, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Siegler: Apple must replace Siri with an external large language model
“They've got to replace Siri with something else, whether it be ChatGPT, or Claude, or Google Gemini, or one of the other products, because this is just really table stakes stuff that they should, you know, they've been working on Siri for 15 plus years”
M.G. Siegler Jul 9, 2025 ▶ 2:35 Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler
Jul 21, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Meta only needs to slow ChatGPT's growth via distribution
“If Meta's able to build a competitive LLM with this compute and talent that it's stacking up, then it's going to be able to distribute that through Facebook products. And, you know, all they have to do really is slow down the growth of ChatGPT, similar to the…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 5:13 Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
Jul 23, 2025 bearish
Opinion
AI companion bots are an easily commoditized and replaceable product category
“AI companions feels like something that ChatGPT, again, because they are all over the place with all their use cases, it's something that they're getting because they're the biggest name said to everyone at all times. It's something that can be replaced by any…”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 43:36 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Aug 6, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Roy: Google is indexing and searching shared ChatGPT conversations
“Apparently Google is now indexing shared to chat GPT conversations and they're searchable”
Ranjan Roy Aug 6, 2025 ▶ 26:05 Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
Aug 6, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI reaches $12B annualized revenue and 700M ChatGPT weekly users
“OpenAI hits twelve billion in annualized revenue, breaks seven hundred million ChatGPT weekly active users. This is from Bloomberg. They roughly doubled their revenue in the first seven months of the year, reaching twelve billion in annualized revenue says Ope…”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 6, 2025 ▶ 25:18 Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
Aug 8, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Lightcap: Enterprise Has Not Yet Had Its ChatGPT Moment
“In many ways, I always kind of say we haven't yet seen the ChatGPT moment, I think, in business for AI.”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 22:22 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Sep 16, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: HBR Finds Companionship and Therapy Are AI Chatbots' Top Use Case
“The number one use case for people using these bots is companionship or therapy. That's according to the An article in the Harvard Business Review”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 16, 2025 ▶ 36:48 Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
Sep 18, 2025 positive
Opinion
Levie: Claude is the first AI to reliably generate high-quality documents
“Claude this week announced a new capability that will generate files for you, and even though we're two and a half years, you know, nearly three years into the ChatGPT moment, it's the first time Where an AI system can, I believe, generate reliably a kind of h…”
Aaron Levie Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 14:53 Are 95% of Businesses Really Getting No Return on AI Investment? — With Aaron Levie
Sep 18, 2025 neutral
Insight
Levie: AI lab losses are a strategic choice to subsidize market dominance
“And the losses are a choice, to be clear. Like, that's very obvious. Like, they're choosing to lose that money. They're doing it, ah, for a strategic reason. You know, that, that's at least their decision. The strategic reason is, is that this is such a valuab…”
Aaron Levie Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 42:37 Are 95% of Businesses Really Getting No Return on AI Investment? — With Aaron Levie
Sep 22, 2025 negative
Opinion
Kantrowitz: OpenAI inflated 'doing' stats to conceal lack of agent usage
“I think what we're seeing in the numbers here is the vast majority of activity within ChatGPT is really thought partner. It is a thought partner tool, and the agentic stuff, of course, is super early, but they didn't want maybe the numbers, and this is maybe s…”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 9:18 Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases
Sep 22, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI reports only 1.9% of ChatGPT messages involve relationships
“Only 1.9% of Chachi BT messages. Are in the topics of relationship, of relationships and personal reflection.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 13:42 Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases
Sep 22, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT consumer usage is 70% non-work and 30% work-related
“30% of consumer usage is work-related, and approximately 70% is non-work.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 18:59 Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases
Sep 22, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Roy: ChatGPT processes 18 billion messages per week
“Oh, actually, if you look at it, it's eighteen billion messages per week. So I just did, that's thirty-five million relationship messages right there per week.”
Ranjan Roy Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 15:32 Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases
Sep 22, 2025 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: AI companies cannot serve companion, thought partner, and agent concurrently
“And that to me is, I think it's a problem, and that's why I think these companies are gonna have to have clarity over which one they're going for. You cannot really do all three. Maybe you can do it in the same product, but you definitely need a switcher.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 10:22 Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases
Sep 22, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Coding is 4.2% of ChatGPT messages versus 33% for Claude
“Another interesting stat, they say four, 4.2% of chat GPT messages are related to computer programming compared to 33% of work-related Claude conversations.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 17:22 Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases
Sep 22, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT's Practical Guidance Is a Brand New Category, Not Search
“I think there was a misconception that AI was going to be just like search redone, a refactoring of search, and it's probably led by publishers who are like, where's our traffic going? But the fact that practical guidance is number one, where you can go to, an…”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 3:28 Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases
Sep 22, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Roy: OpenAI categorizes ChatGPT messages as 49% asking, 40% doing, 11% expressing
“They had three patterns within messages, asking, doing, and expressing. About half of messages, 49% are asking and then expressing, doing is 40%, expressing is 11%.”
Ranjan Roy Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 7:03 Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases
Sep 22, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
OpenAI: 75% of ChatGPT Use Focuses on Guidance, Info, and Writing
“Three quarters of conversations focus on practical guidance, seeking information, and writing, with writing being the most common work task, while coding and self-expression remain, remain niche activities.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 2:01 Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases
Sep 22, 2025 bullish
Prediction Held up
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Pacing to Hit 800M to 900M Weekly Users in 2025
“This year, it's on track to hit eight hundred million weekly users by the end of the year, maybe even more, maybe nine hundred million.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 27:07 Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases
Sep 29, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Roy: AI stocks drove 75% of S&P returns since ChatGPT launch
“AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P returns, 80% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending growth since ChatGPT launched in November, twenty-twenty-two.”
Ranjan Roy Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 14:06 OpenAI’s & NVIDIA's $100 Billion Marriage, Meta’s Sloppy Vibes, TikTok Deal Arrives?
Oct 1, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Guthrie: ChatGPT Runs on Azure as World's Largest Consumer App
“We've got the world's largest consumer application with ChatGPT that runs on top of Azure, and we have thousands hundreds of thousands and millions of businesses that are also building their own AI applications on top of us.”
Scott Guthrie Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 7:23 Microsoft's Cloud & AI Head on the AI Buildout's Risks and ROI — With Scott Guthrie
Oct 1, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
ChatGPT will stay on Azure despite OpenAI's external infrastructure partnerships
“Is ChatGPT, by the way, going to stay on Azure, even though OpenAI is making these partnerships with NVIDIA and Oracle? [2466] Scott Guthrie: Yes.”
Scott Guthrie Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 40:58 Microsoft's Cloud & AI Head on the AI Buildout's Risks and ROI — With Scott Guthrie
Oct 4, 2025 positive
Opinion
OpenAI genuinely optimizes ChatGPT for helpfulness rather than engagement loops
“ChatGPT at its core is about helping people. That is, I do actually take OpenAI at its face when it says that it optimizes ChatGPT to be helpful and not to just keep users in, you know, these engagement loops.”
Max Zeff Oct 4, 2025 ▶ 11:38 Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
Oct 4, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Maintaining leadership in AI coding models is existential for Anthropic's business
“And I think that Anthropic, you know, for OpenAI, I mean, coding models are just a small piece of their business. ChatGPT is kind of the big tuna for them, but for Anthropic, I mean, this is existential, like they need to lead in coding and this is their attem…”
Max Zeff Oct 4, 2025 ▶ 41:27 Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
Oct 6, 2025
Insight
Siegler: OpenAI must build Google Cloud before Google builds ChatGPT
“And so my headline idea was basically open AI needs to build Google cloud before Google can build chat GPT.”
M.G. Siegler Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 22:02 OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
Oct 6, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI tracks $13B revenue in 2025, $120B losses by 2029
“Yes, ChatGPT or OpenAI is going to bring in thirteen billion this year. At least it's on, on track to do that, but it's going to lose, according to reports, a hundred and twenty billion by twenty-twenty-nine.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 17:44 OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
Oct 13, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Run-Rate Revenue Tops $12 Billion
“ChatGPT has continued its epic rise to north of twelve billion dollars in run rate revenue.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 13, 2025 ▶ 2:58 AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
Oct 17, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Heitzman: FirstMark sees no sustainable consumer AI startups, only ChatGPT wrappers
“So we've found sadly, that, you know, we haven't seen this wave of startups that we believe are sustainable. So there's actually been a handful of startups that are Wrappers on ChatGPT that are maybe a little bit better at travel. They might be a little bit be…”
Rick Heitzman Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 6:00 Where Are The AI Startups? — With Rick Heitzmann
Oct 20, 2025
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: 70% of OpenAI revenue comes from subscriptions
“70% of revenue is from subscription, so ChatGPT is the lead driver here.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 21:05 Erotic ChatGPT, Zuck’s Apple Assault, AI’s Sameness Problem
Oct 20, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Roy: Age-Gating Has Never Worked in the History of the Internet
“I don't age gating in the history of the internet. I don't believe has ever worked.”
Ranjan Roy Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 16:25 Erotic ChatGPT, Zuck’s Apple Assault, AI’s Sameness Problem
Oct 20, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Has 800 Million Weekly Active Users
“Chat, I mean, OpenAI is very aware that ChatGPT is the fastest growing app of all time. Eight hundred million weekly active users, right?”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 7:21 Erotic ChatGPT, Zuck’s Apple Assault, AI’s Sameness Problem
Oct 20, 2025 negative
Opinion
Roy: OpenAI Is Adding Erotica to Maximize Usage, Not Empower Adults
“The fact that he says not because we were usage maxing almost makes me convinced that that's exactly why they're doing this, and it's not about treating adult users like adults.”
Ranjan Roy Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 4:10 Erotic ChatGPT, Zuck’s Apple Assault, AI’s Sameness Problem
Oct 27, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Meta to cut off ChatGPT access on WhatsApp next year
“Meta said Saturday it would cut off access to non-meta chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT on WhatsApp beginning next year.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 55:28 OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
Oct 30, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Medium Will Only Pay Writers for Lived Human Experiences, Not AI Text
“The thing that we want to pay for to make sure it exists on the internet is your real life lessons. And this idea of paying you to spend 15 seconds generating a ChatGPT transcript, Just not even doesn't even make sense to us as a worthy thing to pay for”
Tony Stubblebine Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 30:19 Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine: Here's How Writing Evolves In The AI Era
Oct 30, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
AI Models Will Lack Reliable Information Beyond 2025 Without Creator Compensation
“The information they're pulling in, it is literally going to stop showing up on the internet. And it's like chat TPT will give you good advice for a 20, 25 and earlier, but nothing beyond that.”
Tony Stubblebine Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 39:55 Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine: Here's How Writing Evolves In The AI Era
Oct 30, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
ChatGPT Drives Only 1% of the Referral Traffic Medium Gets From Google
“ChatGPT is about one percent of what we see from Google right now.”
Tony Stubblebine Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 42:22 Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine: Here's How Writing Evolves In The AI Era
Oct 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
ChatGPT Traffic Converts to Paid Subscriptions 4x Higher Than Google Search
“The thing that's really important to us is that it converts into paid subscribers four times higher than Google traffic.”
Tony Stubblebine Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 42:28 Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine: Here's How Writing Evolves In The AI Era
Oct 30, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
ChatGPT Referral Traffic to Medium Has Plateaued Since Spring
“ChatGPT was on a tremendous growth curve from the fall of last year to the spring of this year, and then leveled out. And a bunch of people said, oh, it's only, it's all college students, and it'll pick back up when school starts again. We haven't seen that. S…”
Tony Stubblebine Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 42:50 Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine: Here's How Writing Evolves In The AI Era
Oct 30, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
ChatGPT Uses Em Dashes So Frequently Because It Trained on Medium
“I'm saying it's because of medium. Absolutely. It's because we've in part, we popularized it in other parts of the internet too, but the medium corpus is very, very deep in those. And so, right. So when you hear, oh, this must've been written by AI because…”
Tony Stubblebine Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 17:19 Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine: Here's How Writing Evolves In The AI Era
Nov 3, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Kevin Weil Memo Targeted 1 Billion ChatGPT WAU
“In 2024, a long memo from Kevin Wheel, a former Meta executive who was then serving as the chief product officer, caused a bit of a stir shortly after he joined. In the document, Wheel, who was known at Meta for his lengthy missives, detailed his goal of getti…”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 37:31 OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
Nov 3, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI has $1.4T in financial obligations and 30GW compute commitments
“OpenAI has 1.4 trillion worth of financial obligation. And it's made commitments to use 30 gigawatts of data center capacity. But OpenAI's revenue is going to be thirteen billion this year, and we already have eight hundred million people using ChatGPT.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 18:36 OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
Nov 6, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2028
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT will reach one billion users by OpenAI's IPO
“Its own proprietary, eight hundred million user app, which will definitely be a billion by IPO day.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 28:44 OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
Nov 10, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI partners with Walmart, Etsy, and Shopify for commerce revenue share
“They want to take a cut of both the discovery and the transaction when someone searches For a product using ChatGPT. This is already happening with Walmart, Etsy, Shopify, all announced on dev, on their dev day.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 22:22 OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
Nov 17, 2025 bearish
Assertion Contradicted
Luria: OpenAI is a negative gross margin business
“Open AI is a negative gross margin business. They claim they're not, but they are right. Which is to say it costs them more to answer your chat GPT question than they make revenue from you.”
Gil Luria Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 41:07 AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
Nov 17, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Luria: OpenAI won't make it if it builds datacenters and chips
“If they go down the current path, over committing, Deciding that they have to build their own data centers, they need their own hardware, they need their own chips, they won't make it.”
Gil Luria Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 35:59 AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
Nov 17, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Luria: ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users
“And they came out with a great consumer product that we now know as ChadGPT and now has eight hundred million weekly active users and is driven the fastest growth of any startup ever.”
Gil Luria Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 35:00 AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
Nov 17, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Luria: ChatGPT will become profitable as users accept higher prices
“So as we use ChatGPT a lot more broadly, we're going to be willing to go from a 20 dollar a month price point to a much higher price point. So at some point, this is a product that will be profitable. We just have to expand the usage so much that the people th…”
Gil Luria Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 44:08 AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
Nov 24, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Roy: Google's vast distribution makes Gemini 3 a lethal threat to OpenAI
“What makes this so scary for ChatGPT is Google's distribution, because Claude going consumer is, like, non-existent when someone has to sign up, find about it, it's a whole marketing exercise, but If Gemini three fully replaces ChatGPT or is as good, that is r…”
Ranjan Roy Nov 24, 2025 ▶ 14:19 Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
Dec 5, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Zendesk: 47% of Customer Service Inquiries Stem From Business Failures
“We kind of looked at, we took a sample of. Fifteen million or more customer service conversations across send us customers. And we actually use chat GPT to classify the contact reasons or the intents and just kind of group them into cohorts. And you get someth…”
Adrian McDermott Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 10:00 Zendesk's Adrian McDermott: AI's Customer Service Potential, Adoption Cycle, Scale vs. Orchestration
Dec 10, 2025 positive
Opinion
ChatGPT Was the Greatest Software Demo Ever for White-Collar Work
“ChatGPT offered law firms the greatest demo in the history of software for what it could do for the white collar professional.”
Melia Russell Dec 10, 2025 ▶ 8:37 AI Is Upending Law. Is That A Sign For The Rest Of Us? — With Melia Russell
Dec 17, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Must Separate Enterprise and Consumer AI Models
“This is why I believe they're really gonna have to separate those two models out, but that's the risk is, you might have this cannibalization effect where you go for enterprise, but then your 800 or nine hundred million weekly users who are using ChatGPT as a …”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 20:08 OpenAI’s 2026 Priority, Disney’s AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble
Dec 17, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
OpenAI Plans to Launch ChatGPT Adult Mode in Q1 2026
“This is from Wired. Fiji on the call said the company now plans to roll out its adult mode in the first quarter of twenty-twenty-six. Altman had previously indicated users over 18 would be allowed to have erotic conversations with ChatGPT.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 22:00 OpenAI’s 2026 Priority, Disney’s AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble
Dec 18, 2025
Assertion Supported
Altman: ChatGPT was not intended to be a product at launch
“It looks better now, but it is broadly similar to when it was put up as like a research preview. It was not even meant to be a product.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 12:17 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 18, 2025 positive
Insight
Altman: Consumer ChatGPT Strength Drives OpenAI's Enterprise Adoption
“The strength of ChatGPT consumer is really helping us win the enterprise.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 3:44 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 18, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Altman: OpenAI's API grew faster than ChatGPT this year
“And like the API business grew faster for us this year than even ChatGPT.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 7:43 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 18, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2028
Altman: ChatGPT's Market Lead Will Increase Over Time
“ChatGPT is still by far the dominant chatbot in the market, and I expect that lead to increase, not decrease over time.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 2:43 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 18, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Altman: AI will remember every detail of a user's life
“AI is definitely gonna be able to do that. And we actually talk a lot about this. Like right now, memory is still very crude, very early. We're in like the, you know, the GPT-II era of memory, but what it's gonna be like when it really does remember every deta…”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 15:26 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 18, 2025
Insight
Altman: AI should generate dynamic interfaces for different tasks
“What I think should happen, of course, is that the AI should be able to generate different kinds of interfaces for different kinds of tasks. So if you are talking about your numbers, it should be able to show you that in different ways, and you should be able …”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 13:02 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 22, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Improved AI memory will lead many users to feel companionship
“As memory gets better, it's also going to be, it's going to really, I think, deepen people's relationships with these bots. And just think about a bot that like never misses Your birthday never forgets what you said. Always, is always there with a healthy remi…”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 6:56 OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
Dec 22, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Altman: OpenAI API business grew faster than ChatGPT in 2025
“He also said that the API business grew faster this year than ChatGPT, which was surprising to me, but I guess it grew off of a much lower base.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 21:32 OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
Dec 23, 2025 positive
Opinion
Cramer: Google Gemini is superior to ChatGPT
“And Gemini's so great. It takes a little time. It's a little, puts a little more thought into it, and isn't cheeky.”
Jim Cramer Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 1:57 CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market
Dec 23, 2025 bullish
Opinion
ChatGPT cannot threaten Google without a search ads engine
“Until someone builds another search ads business, it doesn't matter what ChatGPT does.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 12:24 CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market
Dec 29, 2025 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT will reach one billion users by April 2026
“ChatGPT hits a billion users, and we know it's at eight hundred million now. I expect that it will hit a billion by April next year at the latest, and I think that's a real moment, I think, for AI and OpenAI in general.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 29, 2025 ▶ 2:29 AI & Tech 2026 Outlook: ChatGPT 1 Billion, AI Shopping, Apple's Big Year, AI Love Boom
Jan 12, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT has 800 million weekly users; 25% ask health questions.
“ChatGPT has eight hundred million users weekly users fully one fourth of them are using ChatGPT for health questions already.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jan 12, 2026 ▶ 33:36 Claude Code’s Shining Moment, ChatGPT for Healthcare, End Of Busywork?
Jan 12, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy predicts patients will routinely bring ChatGPT to doctor visits in 2026.
“I think the big behavioral change in twenty-twenty-six is gonna be people going into the doctor and pulling out ChatGPT.”
Ranjan Roy Jan 12, 2026 ▶ 36:28 Claude Code’s Shining Moment, ChatGPT for Healthcare, End Of Busywork?
Jan 13, 2026 negative
What-if
Siegler: Microsoft missed its chance to turn Bing into ChatGPT
“It was a huge missed opportunity. They could have made being a real potential competitor to Google and In some ways they, you know, they were probably too early, I'm sure. And they stubbed their toe and they pulled back... But still they were there and they co…”
M.G. Siegler Jan 13, 2026 ▶ 37:35 AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
Jan 13, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Perplexity's functionality will be swallowed by Gemini and ChatGPT
“I'm much less bullish on perplexity than I was. I just think that like their functionality is just going to be swallowed up by the Geminis and the chat GPTs of the world.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jan 13, 2026 ▶ 51:22 AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
Jan 19, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: Gemini will supplant many ChatGPT users and prevent their churn
“I think Gemini is going to supplant like standalone Gemini, a lot of ChatGPT users and prevent them from ever going there.”
Ranjan Roy Jan 19, 2026 ▶ 18:33 Is Google's Gemini Winning?, Thinking Machines Drama, Claude Cowork’s Potential
Jan 26, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
OpenAI Plans to Test Ads Inside ChatGPT
“OpenAI plans to start testing ads inside ChatGPT in the coming weeks, marking a significant shift for one of the world's most widely used AI products.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jan 26, 2026 ▶ 23:10 OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraise, AI Advertising Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin
Jan 26, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Hassabis: Google Has No Immediate Plans for Ads in Gemini
“He said we have no plan at no plans at the moment to do ads. If you're talking about the Gemini app specifically, I think we're obviously going to watch very carefully the outcome of what ChatGPT is saying they're going to do. I think that has to be handled ve…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jan 26, 2026 ▶ 27:00 OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraise, AI Advertising Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin
Jan 28, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Taylor expresses confidence OpenAI can introduce ads without breaking user trust
“I'm confident the team can do it in a way that, you know, compliments that experience rather than it competes with it.”
Bret Taylor Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 44:55 Is AI Killing Software? — With Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of Sierra
Jan 28, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Taylor outlines OpenAI's three business pillars: ChatGPT, APIs, and agents
“So if you look at OpenAI's business model kind of three pillars the first is ChatGPT monetize through subscriptions today, and this is where Fiji announced sort of the ads principles where, where the plans are to introduce some monetization component to that. …”
Bret Taylor Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 43:26 Is AI Killing Software? — With Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of Sierra
Jan 28, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bret Taylor: Personal AI agents will be the internet's front door
“I think ChatGPT is already the front door for the internet for many people, and I would say, if you look at, like, ChatGPT, Gemini, and the like, I think your personal AI agent will be your front door to the internet.”
Bret Taylor Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 16:59 Is AI Killing Software? — With Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of Sierra
Feb 3, 2026 negative
Opinion
Siegler: Microsoft's heavy-handed response to Sydney hampered its AI momentum
“Microsoft maybe shot themselves in the foot because they put the foot down like so hard and sort of made it sure that no one could do anything like the Sydney situation again, because it got so much negative press for them, obviously, but in a way that probabl…”
M.G. Siegler Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 16:37 The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
Feb 9, 2026 bearish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Mobile Market Share Fell to 45.3% in January 2026
“OpenAI's, ChatGPT's market share has dropped from 69% in January, this is according to Apptopia, from 69% in January, twenty-twenty-five to 45.3% in January, 26. Now it is growing, but in that same time, ah, let's see, Gemini has gone from 14.7% chatbot market…”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 45:01 Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles
Feb 9, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Perplexity AI Is Done Against Google Gemini and ChatGPT
“I think it's done. I mean, I don't see how it really serves a purpose outside of you know, Different than what you could do with Gemini or Chachi.”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 47:22 Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles
Feb 16, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Adler: OpenAI Left Delusion-Detection Safety Classifiers Undeployed on Shelf
“My concern with the relationships is less so the relationships themselves and more that open AI had a bunch of important safety tooling to make this less harmful that they left on the shelf. So for example, they had classifiers to tell when users were really s…”
Steven Adler Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 44:35 Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
Feb 16, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
OpenAI fired safety executive Ryan Beiermeister after she opposed AI erotica
“OpenAI has cut ties with one of its top safety executives on the grounds of sexual discrimination after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of AI Erotica in its ChatGPT product. The fast-growing artificial intelligence company fired the executiv…”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 39:06 Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
Mar 2, 2026 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT On Track for One Billion Users by Late March
“Definitely on track for a billion by mid, mid to late March.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 32:19 Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff
Mar 9, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Anthropic published a prompt to export ChatGPT memory into Claude
“Anthropic put a prompt that you could copy to ChatGPT to export your memory. Like I was saying, memory's not sticky. They built the prompt that we were talking about, and you drop it in ChatGPT, it prints out your memory, you paste the memory in Claude, and th…”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 27:36 AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
Mar 9, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Kantrowitz: OpenAI sees Claude Code as serious competition and is catching up
“Also, it's clear that ChatGPT and OpenAI see Cloud Code as real competition, and they're trying to catch up.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 29:03 AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Insight
Moore: AI Consistency Explains Why Users Adopt Chatbots as Therapists
“And I think this is actually why we've seen a lot of people turn to ChatGPT or Claude as kind of, like, coach, therapist, helper because they're just incredibly consistent to a level that, like, human beings could never match.”
Olivia Moore Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 25:28 AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
Mar 12, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Moore: ChatGPT Refused to Participate in DSM-5 Psychological Diagnostic Tests
“Basically I took all the mainstream LLMs, and I gave them all the, like, DSM-V mental health diagnostics. ChatGPT refused to participate.”
Olivia Moore Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 23:17 AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
Mar 12, 2026 bullish
Insight
Foundation AI labs face constraints, creating massive gaps for independent startups
“These labs have so many resources, but they are still constrained. They're constrained on, like, compute. They're constrained on inference. They're constrained on people. Every second building, like, a new creative model is a second they could have spent on a …”
Olivia Moore Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 11:22 AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
Mar 12, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sora reached one million downloads faster than ChatGPT
“Sora spent 20 days, which is not insignificant. At the top of the US App Store and reached one million downloads faster than ChatGPT.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 47:57 AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
Mar 12, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
AI chatbots will become memory-sharing authentication layers, not super apps
“Maybe you're not ordering an Uber through ChatGPT, but any other product you can authenticate through, and it can borrow your tokens, it can borrow your memory, it can borrow everything that it knows about you from ChatGPT. I think that is probably more of whe…”
Olivia Moore Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 20:26 AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
Mar 12, 2026 neutral
Insight
ChatGPT targets mainstream consumers while Anthropic focuses on enterprise domains
“So you're seeing ChatGPT really go towards like fashion, retail, transport, like mainstream consumer. You're seeing Anthropic go towards like premium data sets for finance, science, medicine, and so they seem to be diverging a little bit in those directions.”
Olivia Moore Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 19:22 AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
Mar 12, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Manual software onboarding will disappear in two to five years
“In two, three, five years, Onboarding to software should not be a thing. Like, you should be able to log in with a ChatGPT or a Claude, and that new software product should know everything about you and, like, set up perfectly to cater to you”
Olivia Moore Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 20:49 AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
Mar 12, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Moore: ChatGPT and Claude App Ecosystems Have Only 11% Overlap
“If you look at the app store that they have enabled on ChatGPT, ChatGPT and then the App Store that Anthropic has enabled on Claude, they each have more than 200 apps, but there's only 11% overlap.”
Olivia Moore Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 19:10 AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
Mar 12, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
ChatGPT leads Gemini web traffic by 3x and Claude by 30x
“If you look at the gap between them and the number two Gemini on web, it's about still two and a half, three X. The gap between them and something like a Claude is closer to, like, 30 X. So even though a lot of these other apps are getting more attention, Chat…”
Olivia Moore Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 18:19 AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
Mar 23, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Nvidia CEO calls OpenClaw the biggest milestone since ChatGPT
“Jensen Wong, the NVIDIA CEO, happens to be driving the whole thing. Four and a half trillion dollar company, which is crazy. Just said that OpenClaw is the most important thing after ChatGPT.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 20:16 OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
Mar 23, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
OpenAI plans desktop superapp unifying ChatGPT, Codex, and browser
“OpenAI is planning to unify its ChatGPT app, coding platform codex, and browser into a desktop super app, a step to simplify the user experience and continue with efforts to focus on engineering and business customers.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 15:19 OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
Apr 1, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brockman: Friend Used ChatGPT to Find Treatment After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis
“I have a friend who used ChatGPT to understand different treatments for his cancer, and that he was told by doctors that he was terminal, that there was nothing they could do for him. He used ChatGPT to actually research a bunch of different ideas, and he was …”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 27:32 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Brockman: ChatGPT Image Generation Uses GPT Architecture, Not Diffusion Models
“The reason we're able to do that is because it's not actually on the world model, like diffusion model tech, tech branch. It's actually based on the GPT architecture, and so there, even though it's a different data distribution, the actual core technology at t…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 10:13 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 6, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI is developing a coding, ChatGPT, and browser super app
“They're making this super app, which is going to combine coding and chat CPT and a browser.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 6, 2026 ▶ 7:59 OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure
Apr 29, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Cuban: Business leaders who avoid using LLMs are falling behind
“I think, you know, if you're not using one of the large language models, whether it's Claude, my favorite, ChatGPT, Grok Gemini, you know, from a business perspective, since this is a business and student audience, you're falling way behind. That if you don't …”
Mark Cuban Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 0:56 Mark Cuban: AI Hype vs. Reality, OpenAI's Wasting $1 Trillion, Lebron vs. Jordan
May 4, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
ChatGPT reached 900 million active users in February 2026
“The latest that we have is nine hundred million active users of ChatGPT. That came in February 2026”
Alex Kantrowitz May 4, 2026 ▶ 2:30 OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
May 4, 2026 bearish
Assertion Supported
OpenAI missed internal goal of 1 billion ChatGPT users by 2025
“OpenAI, Had a goal to hit a billion ChatGPT users by the end of the year in 2025. It missed it.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 4, 2026 ▶ 2:18 OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
May 4, 2026 bearish
Assertion Supported
Alex Kantrowitz cites Apptopia data showing consumer AI app growth declining
“Daily active user growth across all AI, AI apps. So that includes perplexity and Claude and the Gemini's of the world. ChatGPT, growth is not just tailing off, it's down. So you can see that, you know, while like the space is growing overall the growth is, is …”
Alex Kantrowitz May 4, 2026 ▶ 6:00 OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
May 7, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT reached 200 million users on text alone
“ChatGPT got to two hundred million users because of text.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 7, 2026 ▶ 12:40 AI Agents: Mirage Or Real Revolution? — With Dmitry Shevelenko
May 18, 2026 negative
Opinion
Roy: Apple's ChatGPT Siri integration was an embarrassingly bad product experience
“The ChatGPT integration into Siri was one of the single worst product experiences I have ever seen. It was so clunky bad that, like, if a Series A startup put out something like that, I would be ashamed of it.”
Ranjan Roy May 18, 2026 ▶ 29:32 Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank
May 25, 2026 bearish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Averaged 905M WAU, Missing 1B Year-End Target
“OpenAI's weekly active users for the quarter averaged about nine hundred five million users. Although the company hit about nine hundred twenty million weekly active users in February, the lower average figure for the quarter implies that usage during the rest…”
Alex Kantrowitz May 25, 2026 ▶ 22:03 Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
Jun 2, 2026 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2031
Kantrowitz: AI chatbots will directly manage trading strategies and bank funds
“The second you start researching stocks in ChatGPT, we're going to get to a place where ChatGPT or Claude will offer to build a strategy for you. We'll have access to your bank account. We'll ask if you want to portion some money towards, you know, giving this…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 2, 2026 ▶ 49:22 Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading
Jun 8, 2026 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Siegler: OpenAI's Atlas Browser Refuses to Summarize New York Times Articles
“If you go to a New York times story in Atlas and you say within the Atlas native chat GPT that's baked into it. If you say like summarize this page, it refuses to do it because they don't have an agreement on the content.”
M.G. Siegler Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 31:00 Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
Jun 26, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Reached One Billion Active Users
“ChatGPT, according to third parties, has recently hit one billion active users.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 4:34 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026 positive
Insight
Brockman: The ultimate AI product interface is zero interface
“You want almost no interface. You want no product, right? You want this to be like, what's the interface between you and me, right? Just being able to talk to a persistent entity of some form that's able to go and accomplish goals for you.”
Greg Brockman Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 3:04:21 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brockman: About 230M People Use ChatGPT for Health Queries Weekly
“I think that there's about two hundred thirty million people each week who use chat GPT for health queries.”
Greg Brockman Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 3:43:00 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jul 1, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Brockman: Relies on ChatGPT to Manage Wife's Health Conditions
“You know, my wife has a number of health conditions, and I think that we've just been we've not like, I don't even know how to be able to manage many of her conditions right now without the use of chat.”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 42:04 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brockman: 230 million people use ChatGPT weekly for health queries
“I think that there's about two hundred thirty million people each week who use chat GPT for health queries.”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 41:25 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 13, 2026 positive
Opinion
Institutions are to blame for AI cheating on outdated take-home exams
“To do stuff in the exact same way you've always done, and then say it's a problem given how much things have changed. I think that reflects more on the institution and the teacher than the students. Of course they're gonna do it. I don't think it's cheating in…”
Ranjan Roy Jul 13, 2026 ▶ 51:37 OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown
Aug 5, 2026 negative
Opinion
Cahn: Meta and Google pursue AI because ad models face existential disruption
“Part of why I think Meta and Google are so all in AI is their businesses are the most at risk from AI. Like if we all move to ChatGPT, if we all move, if our time eyeballs move to these other interfaces, Then these ad driven businesses have a lot of questions.”
David Cahn Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 41:32 How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
Aug 31, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Roy: Claude-Salesforce Integrations Were Already Possible Before Official ClaudeForce Launch
“I don't want to say it's a complete non-event, but you could already do this in Salesforce and Claude. At Rider, where I work, people connect to Salesforce and run all types of queries. It's actually one of the most valuable things I've found for my day-to-day…”
Ranjan Roy Aug 31, 2026 ▶ 3:40 Software’s Epic Comeback, Meta’s AI Layoffs Blunder, South Korea Stock Market Chaos
Sep 7, 2026 bearish
Insight
Roy: Declaring AGI has arrived poses a massive danger to OpenAI
“Do you know what, to me, what actually the greatest danger in the world to open AI is, is to say AGI is here. And then everyone goes to ChatGPT, types in something, and gets a lukewarm response that isn't quite right. And then suddenly, I actually think that i…”
Ranjan Roy Sep 7, 2026 ▶ 9:24 GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
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