GPT-4
also referred to as: gpt-iv
includes GPT 4 Turbo
21 statements across 13 episodes · 10 bullish · 4 bearish · 12 people on the record · first statement Sep 6, 2023 by Sridhar Ramaswamy · said 150 times in 44 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Alex Kantrowitz (56), Dwarkesh Patel (15), Dylan Patel (11), Aaron Levie (10), Gary Marcus (9), Mark Chen (8), Aravind Srinivas (8), Ranjan Roy (6)
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2026 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
- Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
- Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
- Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 86 mentions in 20 episodes 4 per episode
- Are We at the End of Ai Progress? — With Gary Marcus
- OpenAI's Chief Research Officer on GPT 4.5's Debut, Scaling Laws, And Teaching EQ to Models
- Generative AI 101: Tokens, Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Reasoning — With SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel
- OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
- Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
- Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition
- Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
- Are 95% of Businesses Really Getting No Return on AI Investment? — With Aaron Levie
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 49 mentions in 14 episodes 4 per episode
- AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
- Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google
- Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
- Box CEO Aaron Levie — Audience Q&A: AI Agents, AI Talent, Evolution of Work
- Box CEO Aaron Levie — What Cheaper, Faster, and Smarter AI Gets Us
- Is Generative AI Plateauing?, Booming Bluesky, Apple’s Smart Glasses Play
- OpenAI Raising At $100 Billion Valuation
- Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- AI Keynote: Six Bold Predictions About The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
- Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI
- Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: As We Get Closer to Superintelligence, Everyone Gets More Stressed & Anxious
- How Generative AI Is Already Changing The Communications Field — With EZ Newswire
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
Everything said about GPT-4, oldest first
Sep 6, 2023 positive
Ramaswamy: GPT-4 and Claude are a clear step ahead of open source models
“The blunt truth is that the very best of the models out there, whether it's GPT-IV or Claude's biggest model, are a clear step ahead of the pack when it comes to quality. When it comes to reasoning, when it comes to the quality of the text that they produce th…”
Feb 15, 2024 bullish
Mar 20, 2024 neutral
May 15, 2024
Multi-hour autonomous coherency is a major bottleneck for agentic AI
“One big one, and this is similar, is that they aren't yet useful in long when you need them to kind of go do a job. You can't be like GPT-IV. I'll be back in a while, but can you like manage my inbox for me in the meantime? Or can you go go book a trip for me?…”
May 15, 2024 bearish
If AI scaling stalls, it will likely be due to data memorization
“If, let's say, GPT-Six isn't that much better than GPT-Four, and you had to look back on it and say, like, why, why did that happen? I think the most, the thing I'd expect to say is that right now we are We are kind of fooled by how much data these models cons…”
May 15, 2024 bullish
AI scaling will not mysteriously halt halfway through the range of human intelligence
“It would just be bizarre to me that, like, you're halfway through the human range of intelligence, and now it stops getting better, so I do sympathize with Sam's statement in the sense of, like, why would it stop here, right? If it was gonna stop, why, it woul…”
May 15, 2024 neutral
May 22, 2024 bullish
Levie: 10x cheaper AI models will drive 100x more usage
“If you could make, again, kind of wave magic wand and you say like we have GPT five or GPT six, and it costs like a 10th
Of what today GPT-IV costs I would argue that you'll probably get a hundred X more usage of AI, not, not just 10 X, you know, more usage of…”
Jul 3, 2024 negative
Feb 27, 2025 bullish
Feb 27, 2025 neutral
Feb 27, 2025 positive
Feb 27, 2025 neutral
Chen: Pausing and restarting training runs is standard across OpenAI models
“Actually, so I think it's interesting that this gets is a point that's attributed to this model because actually in, in, in developing all of our foundation models, right they're all experiments, right? I think you know, running all of the foundation models of…”
Feb 27, 2025 bullish
Chen: GPT-4.5 hits expected benchmark progression consistent with OpenAI's trajectory
“Well, I really don't think that the accurate characterization is that it doesn't hit the benchmarks that, that we expect it to. So when you look at kind of the development of three to 3.5 to four to 4.5 this does hit the benchmarks that we expect.”
Mar 28, 2025 bearish
Apr 4, 2025 bullish
Apr 23, 2025
Patel: Frontier AI cluster costs have scaled from $100M to $10B
“For GPT-IV, it was a few hundred million dollars and it's one building full of GPUs, too. GPT-IV 4.5 and the reasoning models, like, oh, one, oh, three were done in a, in three buildings on the same site, and, you know, billions of dollars to, hey, these next …”
Apr 23, 2025 neutral
Patel: Model inference costs dropped 60x from GPT-4 to DeepSeek-V3
“And likewise, when we look at from GPT-IV to DeepSeq VIII it's fallen roughly 600 X in cost. Right. So we're not quite at that 1200 X, but it has fallen 600 X in cost from 60 dollars to less than you know, to about a dollar. Right. Or to less than a dollar. So…”
May 7, 2025 bearish
Jun 18, 2025 positive
Patel: GPT-4-Level Training Costs Have Dropped 10x to 100x
“If you look at what it costs to train GBT for originally, I think it was like 20,008, 100 over the course of a hundred days. So I think it costs on the order of like half a million to a hundred million dollars, somewhere in that range. And I think you could tr…”
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Lightcap: GPT-5 bakes in tool use and longer-horizon reasoning
“So using tools, for example, is something that really thinks really important for overall intelligence, GPT two and three couldn't really do that as well. GPT-IV could do it in a more nascent way. And now GPT-V, you get that baked in with the benefit of these …”