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778 statements across 167 episodes · 259 bullish · 262 bearish · 78 people on the record · first statement Jan 25, 2023 by Yann LeCun · said 4,261 times in 230 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Everything said about OpenAI, oldest first

Jan 25, 2023 negative
Opinion
LeCun: OpenAI relies on impressive demos to raise money from Microsoft
“And they have to produce impressive demos because that's the economic model. That's how they're going to raise money from Microsoft and others.”
Yann LeCun Jan 25, 2023 ▶ 19:31 Is ChatGPT A Step Toward Human-Level AI? — With Yann LeCun, Meta Chief AI Scientist
Jan 25, 2023 negative
Opinion
LeCun: OpenAI has become a contract research house for Microsoft
“They've become sort of a contract research house for Microsoft to some extent.”
Yann LeCun Jan 25, 2023 ▶ 3:12 Is ChatGPT A Step Toward Human-Level AI? — With Yann LeCun, Meta Chief AI Scientist
Jan 25, 2023 negative
Opinion
LeCun: OpenAI's technology is well-engineered but not scientifically innovative
“Their technology is not particularly innovative from the scientific point of view. It's very well engineered. So they put together, you know, large scale scaled up system with trained with very well curated data. I mean, they know what they're doing. But in te…”
Yann LeCun Jan 25, 2023 ▶ 6:54 Is ChatGPT A Step Toward Human-Level AI? — With Yann LeCun, Meta Chief AI Scientist
Jul 24, 2023 bullish
Opinion
Shah: OpenAI tools replicate a decade of financial modeling skills in minutes
“Now you can plug something into to open AI and you can develop a model in minutes. So that's taking probably something like 10 years of work and being able to replicate it in maybe not the perfect capacity, but you can get pretty darn close in, in, you know, i…”
Neil Shah Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 4:00 How Generative AI Is Already Changing The Communications Field — With EZ Newswire
Sep 6, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
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…”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Sep 6, 2023 ▶ 27:53 Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
Oct 25, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Amazon Invested $1.25B in Anthropic With Options Up to $4B
“They positioned themselves a lot better with their big investment in Anthropic, right? Already 1.25 billion in Anthropic, potentially up to four billion investment in Anthropic, which is like this counterweight to open AI.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 25, 2023 ▶ 13:12 Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough
Oct 25, 2023 neutral
Insight
McCullough: Meta pushes open source AI to avoid another mobile platform dependency
“Meta does not want to be in a position where the only way they can do that with a high degree of accuracy and efficacy is to have to ping somebody else's APIs. Because again, they'll be in the position that they have been with like the iPhone and Android all t…”
Brian McCullough Oct 25, 2023 ▶ 42:18 Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough
Oct 25, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
McCullough: Meta Is Most Likely to Dethrone OpenAI Within Three Years
“If someone's gonna dethrone, if OpenAI is and also ran within three years, I bet it'll be Meta. I, my money would be on Meta that would dethrone them, and then maybe Google slash Alphabet.”
Brian McCullough Oct 25, 2023 ▶ 44:42 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 positive
Opinion
Nemade: OpenAI ships vulnerably without obsessing over PR
“And on the other side, like open AI, like they don't give a shit about PR or like for the most part, they don't like, they're like, okay, this is what we think is right. This is how we think is a reasonable way of putting it out. They be well, they become vuln…”
Gaurav Nemade Oct 30, 2023 ▶ 42:06 Why Google Never Shipped LaMDA Its ChatGPT Predecessor
Oct 30, 2023 positive
What-if
Nemade: Google could have safely released LaMDA using OpenAI's vetted-access model
“And I think OpenAI did an excellent job with respect to that. Like, they released GPT-III, and they were like, we are just going to give access to researchers who we are going to vet. That's an amazing way to give access. Now it's kind of pretty standard way, …”
Gaurav Nemade Oct 30, 2023 ▶ 28:15 Why Google Never Shipped LaMDA Its ChatGPT Predecessor
Nov 18, 2023 negative
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Sam Altman's firing was clearly a conduct-related issue
“The business seemed like it was in good shape. You know, maybe there was like something that was going on, but this was clearly a conduct related issue.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 18, 2023 ▶ 3:04 Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI
Nov 18, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Microsoft learned of Sam Altman's firing one minute before public announcement
“Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman. Ina Fried says its biggest partner one that has invested billions in the company learned a minute before the rest of the world that Altman was out.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 18, 2023 ▶ 11:58 Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI
Nov 18, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Goldman: OpenAI Can Remain Competitive Without Altman but Creates Space for Rivals
“I think so. I mean, I don't feel like open AI was just Sam Altman. I mean, I think That you know, Greg Brockman, I think Ilya Sutskiver, I think Mira, I think there's a lot of people in place. I'm sure that there, the, that sense of mission and the product its…”
Sharon Goldman Nov 18, 2023 ▶ 8:27 Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI
Nov 18, 2023 negative
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Altman's firing is tech's most shocking in a decade
“The board has been involved in literally the most shocking firing in tech, I would have to say, in a decade or longer.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 18, 2023 ▶ 0:58 Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI
Nov 18, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Goldman: Altman's firing is a problem for Microsoft
“I do think it's a problem for Microsoft if he's gone for, you know, again, it raises questions, you know, again, Satya Nadella was with Sam Altman on stage at Dev Day, touting their relationship that they'd be building AGI together. The fact that if it becomes…”
Sharon Goldman Nov 18, 2023 ▶ 20:40 Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI
Nov 18, 2023
Assertion Supported
Goldman: OpenAI's nonprofit board determines when AGI is attained
“A six member nonprofit board of directors is the Half dozen group that will decide when OpenAI has quote unquote attained AGI.”
Sharon Goldman Nov 18, 2023 ▶ 16:40 Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI
Nov 18, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Goldman: OpenAI Still Has Only a Few Hundred Employees
“I think it still only has a few hundred employees.”
Sharon Goldman Nov 18, 2023 ▶ 22:42 Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI
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
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: The real AI rivalry is Zuckerberg versus Altman, not Musk
“And if you thought that Elon Musk Zuckerberg cage match was the main event. No. That was a side show. Him versus Sam Altman. That's where the real fight is going to happen, and he's betting on narrow.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 14:06 AI Keynote: Six Bold Predictions About The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
Nov 23, 2023 bearish
Prediction Held up
Kantrowitz predicts OpenAI will lose its AI market leadership position
“My first prediction is that OpenAI, which is the leader in the field today, is going to lose the throne. That's right. OpenAI will lose the throne. It will still factor in, but it's not going to be the leader in the field that it is today.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 1:15 AI Keynote: Six Bold Predictions About The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
Dec 4, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sitaraman: OpenAI's superalignment team tried to create an automated AI scientist
“And one of the projects that, you know, we reported on was they were trying to create an AI scientist. So this is like not a science, like a human scientist, like an AI scientist that would study alignment.”
Deepa Sitaraman Dec 4, 2023 ▶ 12:41 Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War
Dec 4, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
Sitaraman: Reports of a Q* letter prompting the OpenAI coup are false
“One thing that I've now heard from a few different people is that the reports about the, a letter being sent to the board about Q star that, that that's not true. And then it didn't precipitate the board's decision.”
Deepa Sitaraman Dec 4, 2023 ▶ 32:20 Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War
Dec 4, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sitaraman: OpenAI only recently hired one person for 2024 election policy
“And so open AI a couple months ago, just hired a, somebody on their policy team focused on the 20, 24 election.”
Deepa Sitaraman Dec 4, 2023 ▶ 13:19 Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War
Dec 4, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Broderick: The OpenAI drama will galvanize accelerationists into a serious movement
“I think that if there's really any legacy from the last week of drama instead of opening AI, it's that the acceleration is all found each other. And like, now know how to talk about each other. And now we'll start to see sort of like those memes becoming more …”
Ryan Broderick Dec 4, 2023 ▶ 39:04 Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War
Dec 13, 2023 positive
Opinion
Executive team proved they can run OpenAI without Sam Altman
“And the proudest moment for me in all of this craziness was realizing that the executive team could totally run the company without me. I can go retire. Open AI will be fine.”
Sam Altman Dec 13, 2023 ▶ 2:20 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: As We Get Closer to Superintelligence, Everyone Gets More Stressed & Anxious
Dec 13, 2023 positive
Disclosure
OpenAI shifted core vision from autonomous AI to building human tools
“If, to people in media, people in other industries, if you had asked us five years ago what was going to happen, we would have said, we will be able to build You know, trusted, responsible AI. But, fundamentally, it's gonna be going off and doing its thing. An…”
Sam Altman Dec 13, 2023 ▶ 10:47 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: As We Get Closer to Superintelligence, Everyone Gets More Stressed & Anxious
Dec 13, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
AI will be net good for media as trusted journalists gain value
“I think they're gonna rely and care more about their relationship with someone in the media more and more, and care more about high quality information in a world of, like, massive amounts of generated content. So I think it should be net good, but it will be …”
Sam Altman Dec 13, 2023 ▶ 10:14 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: As We Get Closer to Superintelligence, Everyone Gets More Stressed & Anxious
Dec 13, 2023 neutral
Opinion
Public shouldn't trust OpenAI if governance structure doesn't improve
“So I think if we don't make, if we don't improve our governance structure, if we don't improve our, the way we interact with the world, people shouldn't, but we're very motivated to improve that.”
Sam Altman Dec 13, 2023 ▶ 3:29 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: As We Get Closer to Superintelligence, Everyone Gets More Stressed & Anxious
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
Dec 13, 2023 negative
Opinion
OpenAI clearly failed its goal to prevent AGI control by few
“We always said that we didn't want AGI to be controlled by a small set of people. We wanted to be democratized, and we clearly got that wrong.”
Sam Altman Dec 13, 2023 ▶ 3:19 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: As We Get Closer to Superintelligence, Everyone Gets More Stressed & Anxious
Dec 13, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
AI will eventually give everyone ten thousand collaborating experts
“But next they have, like, the world's best chief of staff. And then after that, every person has, like, a company of 20 or 50 experts that can work super well together. And then after that, everybody has a company of 10,000 experts in every field that can work…”
Sam Altman Dec 13, 2023 ▶ 13:32 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: As We Get Closer to Superintelligence, Everyone Gets More Stressed & Anxious
Dec 13, 2023 positive
Opinion
November 2023 boardroom crisis made OpenAI more unified and focused
“It's been extremely painful for me personally, but I actually think it's been great for OpenAI. We've never been more unified we have never been more sort of determined and focused,”
Sam Altman Dec 13, 2023 ▶ 1:00 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: As We Get Closer to Superintelligence, Everyone Gets More Stressed & Anxious
Dec 13, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
OpenAI is not maximum-profit seeking or controlled by Microsoft
“You know, we're definitely not maximum profit seeking, although you could talk to Elon about some of his ventures for that one. And we open source a lot of stuff, we'll open source more in the future, and we're certainly not controlled by Microsoft.”
Sam Altman Dec 13, 2023 ▶ 4:29 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: As We Get Closer to Superintelligence, Everyone Gets More Stressed & Anxious
Dec 13, 2023
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Approaching superintelligence makes everyone involved more stressed and anxious
“I think everybody involved in this, as we get closer and closer to superintelligence Everybody involved gets more stressed and more anxious, and we realize the stakes are higher and higher, and I think that will explode.”
Sam Altman Dec 13, 2023 ▶ 0:34 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: As We Get Closer to Superintelligence, Everyone Gets More Stressed & Anxious
Jan 24, 2024 neutral
Insight
Pineau: AI reasoning techniques rely on 40 years of known research methods
“A lot of the ingredients of how to do reasoning have been explored in AI for 40 years. And are published and well known to anyone who's taken even an undergrad level course in AI. So I'm not saying they, that there's not any innovation in the work that, that o…”
Joelle Pineau Jan 24, 2024 ▶ 29:24 Why Meta Wants To Build Artificial General Intelligence — With Joelle Pineau, VP of Meta AI Research
Feb 15, 2024 positive
Opinion
Srinivas: Google Has More Talented People Than Even OpenAI
“I mean, you have to be insane to think you have more talented people than Google. I don't even think OpenAI has that, even though, like, they have a massive concentration of talent density today.”
Aravind Srinivas Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 5:54 Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google
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
Prediction Held up
Srinivas: OpenAI will stay ahead of competitors with GPT-4.5 or GPT-5
“I'm sure there's a GPT 4.5 or five that will stay ahead. So it really is going to be a cat and mouse game there where Anthropics playing catch up and OpenAI is ahead through multimodal capabilities, reasoning capabilities, and things, things like that.”
Aravind Srinivas Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 40:45 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
Mar 6, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Petersen: Flexport uses OpenAI and Adept APIs for discrete workflow tasks
“We, we've actually using OpenAI's APIs as well as a company called Adept which their CEO used to be the head of engineering for OpenAI and so they, but we're using these, the thing that's working for us is that the fact that we've taken, you know, a complex tr…”
Ryan Petersen Mar 6, 2024 ▶ 52:53 Is it Flexport + Shopify vs. Amazon? — With Ryan Petersen
Mar 20, 2024 positive
Opinion
Doshi: Sam Altman only cares about AGI, treating video as stepping stones
“I think that Sam is genuinely focused on AGI and attaining that. And I think he does not care about Graphics and, you know, video necessarily. I think he, those are stepping stones and that helps research you know, get to the next point, but I think he is very…”
Suhail Doshi Mar 20, 2024 ▶ 57:18 Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
Mar 20, 2024 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Doshi: GPT-5 is probably slated for release in 2024
“GPT five is probably slated imminently this year.”
Suhail Doshi Mar 20, 2024 ▶ 45:11 Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
Mar 20, 2024 neutral
Insight
Suhail Doshi: Video AI models mimic training data rather than understanding real physics
“What's really doing is it's representing The physics it understands in the videos it's being trained on, which could be incorrect physics. It's really what it understands what it's being trained on is kind of my main, the main thrust of my point. And that to a…”
Suhail Doshi Mar 20, 2024 ▶ 39:07 Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
Mar 20, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Doshi: In a year, OpenAI's Sora will look 'not even close'
“My feeling is my bet to people, you know, sort of listening is that in a year we will think, you know, we'll think something like Sora was not even close.”
Suhail Doshi Mar 20, 2024 ▶ 35:18 Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
Apr 20, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Swisher: OpenAI will not remain at the center of AI
“You know, it's obviously at the white hot center of everything, but I don't think it will remain there. No, I don't. No. I mean, unless he's the best business person in history, but I don't think he is.”
Kara Swisher Apr 20, 2024 ▶ 40:08 Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
Apr 20, 2024 negative
Opinion
Swisher: Tech companies scraping content for AI training are shoplifters
“They're shoplifters, they've been shoplifters forever. So no, they're not just pointing to me, they're taking my things.”
Kara Swisher Apr 20, 2024 ▶ 43:17 Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
Apr 20, 2024 positive
Opinion
Swisher: Sam Altman is super aggressive yet uniquely admits problems
“Oh, I think he's super aggressive. I've met him when he was 19, so I have a long history with him. You know, he's like the rest of them. He's super aggressive. He's much more thoughtful. He has much calmer voice and everything else. He at least, you know, lean…”
Kara Swisher Apr 20, 2024 ▶ 26:33 Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
Apr 20, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Swisher suspects OpenAI's subscription business is not very big
“I mean, you have subscriptions, but I suspect it's not a very big business.”
Kara Swisher Apr 20, 2024 ▶ 27:55 Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
Apr 20, 2024 positive
Opinion
Swisher: Nadella's OpenAI deal and diverse AI bets are smart strategy
“No, I think they've got a, I think that was a smart move. I think he's got to do it himself. I think picking up great information and great computing resources, that company sure should be right in the middle of this. No, I thought that was smart. He affiliate…”
Kara Swisher Apr 20, 2024 ▶ 25:56 Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
May 9, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Clark: Anthropic left OpenAI to pursue coherent safety bets, not from hostility
“And it's not to say that there's any particular. Like distaste for safety there. It's more that you had. We had, like, a very specific view, and other people had views, so you were gonna win some, lose some, and then we realized, well, we could just do this to…”
Jack Clark May 9, 2024 ▶ 55:54 Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark
May 9, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Clark: OpenAI deliberately downplayed GPT-3's release to test public discovery
“We actually tried to lowball the system in that we published a research paper called like language models are few shot learners. I don't think we even tweeted about it. We tried to like public publish it publicly, but also be like very quiet and see, see how q…”
Jack Clark May 9, 2024 ▶ 53:45 Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark
May 15, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Individual AI scientists are probably replaceable at large research labs
“Then I, you know, I think like the default perspective is listen, you've got thousands of scientists who are doing AI. Surely any one of them is replaceable. I think that's probably correct, but. I'm not in the field enough to know that.”
Dwarkesh Patel May 15, 2024 ▶ 1:16 AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
May 15, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Microsoft loses leverage over OpenAI if the board ever declares AGI
“The clause in the open AI charger says that if the board, which is nonprofit and controls the company decides that we've built AGI, then Microsoft has no leverage over, over open AI anymore.”
Dwarkesh Patel May 15, 2024 ▶ 9:05 AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
May 15, 2024 negative
Opinion
Microsoft is repeating Google's mistake by splitting AI model training efforts
“Microsoft is basically reversing what Google has managed to do over the last few years. And in fact, making the same mistake that Google initially made, which was to have its training distributed or split up between two different corporations or institutions.”
Dwarkesh Patel May 15, 2024 ▶ 7:34 AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
May 15, 2024 bearish
Insight
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…”
Dwarkesh Patel May 15, 2024 ▶ 31:11 AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
May 15, 2024 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
The public will see a GPT-5 level AI model by year-end
“Because by the end of this year, we'll get to see hopefully what a GPT-V level model looks like, and we'll learn whether we're on the path to some kind of super intelligence.”
Dwarkesh Patel May 15, 2024 ▶ 2:21 AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
May 15, 2024 neutral
Insight
Tech giants should concentrate capital into a single frontier lab
“The thing with AI is if you buy scaling in this picture, that is, you make the models bigger, they get much smarter. Then I don't think it makes sense to hedge your bets in this way. I think you should just double down, give, give one of them a hundred billion…”
Dwarkesh Patel May 15, 2024 ▶ 8:22 AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
May 15, 2024 bullish
Prediction Held up
GPT-5 will enable autonomous agents to execute UI tasks for hours
“Then we're gonna see much more multimodal data, and I think that'll look a lot like the equivalent of supervised fine-tuning, but for a bunch of people recording their screen and doing workflows with their screen, navigating UIs. So I think you'll have agents …”
Dwarkesh Patel May 15, 2024 ▶ 4:00 AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
May 15, 2024 bullish
Opinion
OpenAI likely leads frontier AI competitors in revenue by a wide margin
“It doesn't seem like there's a strong leader at the moment. I think in terms of revenue, probably open AI is leading by a lot.”
Dwarkesh Patel May 15, 2024 ▶ 10:24 AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
May 15, 2024 positive
Prediction Held up
GPT-5 will have noticeably improved reasoning capabilities from step-by-step training
“I think it'll definitely be better at reasoning, which is trivial to say, because the training methods that we've seen them talk about, like you, I'm sure you heard the talk about Q star and what it seems to be is training the model to rewarding it on getting …”
Dwarkesh Patel May 15, 2024 ▶ 3:32 AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
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
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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…”
Aaron Levie May 22, 2024 ▶ 13:21 Box CEO Aaron Levie — What Cheaper, Faster, and Smarter AI Gets Us
Jun 26, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: AI spending will slow without step-change gains in 18 months
“And from everything that I hear, it's going to be the next 18 months that will basically decide, like, if they do 18 more months of development of these models within OpenAI, within Anthropic, within Microsoft, and Meta, and don't see sort of step change incre…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 18:01 Decoding the NVIDIA Trade - With Michael Batnick
Jul 3, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Saunders: Many at OpenAI discuss a three-year timeline to AGI
“And you know, what people were talking about at the company in terms of timelines to something dangerous were like, there were people talking, a lot of people talking about similar things to like the predictions of like, Leopold Aschenbrenner, where it's like …”
William Saunders Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 37:53 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Jul 3, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Lessig: California Law Treats Vested Equity as Unconditional Wages
“Equity Is wage in the state of California. If you earn equity, your vested equity, it's like your wages. And when you leave, they can't say, oh, here's a bunch of other additional agree terms you must agree to in order to take what you've already earned. So th…”
Lawrence "Larry" Lessig Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 21:51 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Jul 3, 2024 positive
Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Jul 2024
Lessig: 'Right to Warn' only allows public disclosure if reporting channels fail
“The right to warn we were talking about actually talked about creating an incentive so that no confidential information would be released to the public. If they had this structure, you know, imagine a portal again, where you can connect with the company and wi…”
Lawrence "Larry" Lessig Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 40:36 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Jul 3, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Lessig: Failing to Follow Stated AI Safety Regimes Is Reportable to SEC
“Some agencies like the SEC takes the view that most anything could potentially be the sort of thing you'd have privilege to complain to the SEC about because it could potentially affect the value of the company. And to the extent it's potentially affecting the…”
Lawrence "Larry" Lessig Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 25:09 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Jul 3, 2024 negative
Opinion
Saunders: GPT-4 is safe, but GPT-5 or later might be the Titanic
“I don't think that I was working on the Titanic. I don't think that GPT four was the Titanic. I'm more, I'm afraid that like GPT five or GPT six or GPT seven might be the Titanic in, in, in this analogy.”
William Saunders Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 12:16 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Jul 3, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lessig: Ex-OpenAI Staff Remained Silent Fearing Equity Clawbacks
“I mean, I've spoken to ex-employees who've said, look, I've not done X, Y, and Z because I feared the club acts. So they can say, and they never enforced it. They didn't need to enforce it to have the effect, which it had for a significant number of people”
Lawrence "Larry" Lessig Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 23:35 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Jul 3, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Saunders: Most OpenAI employees and alignment efforts are English-focused
“Most of the people at opening I speak English. Most of the alignment work is done in English.”
William Saunders Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 15:32 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Jul 3, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Saunders: AI-assisted critique helps humans detect model errors
“What some of the research that I did at OpenAI was, you know, trying to develop techniques for this, and the simple technique that we tried and showed that worked was just ask a different AI system, or even the same AI system, is there a problem with this answ…”
William Saunders Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 8:13 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Jul 3, 2024 negative
Insight
Saunders: Small model oversight of large models clearly misses violations
“Some systems that the company has talked about involve using a very like small and dumb language model to like monitor what a larger language model is doing. And this will like clearly miss a bunch of things.”
William Saunders Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 16:42 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Jul 3, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Saunders: Departure from OpenAI was not caused by witnessing immediate harm
“If there were, if there was a group of people that I knew were being seriously harmed by this technology first, I still really hope that open AI would like do the right thing and address this. If this was like a very clear cut case. I also personally would you…”
William Saunders Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 11:47 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Jul 3, 2024 negative
Opinion
Saunders: OpenAI prioritizes shiny products over safety like the Titanic
“OpenAI claimed that their mission was to build safe and beneficial AGI, and I thought that this would mean that they would prioritize, you know, putting safety first. But over time, it started to really feel like the decisions being made by leadership were mor…”
William Saunders Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 2:36 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Aug 30, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
OpenAI Generates $3.4 Billion In Annualized Revenue
“And this year OpenAI said its revenue was 3.4 billion. On an annualized basis.”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 7:48 OpenAI Raising At $100 Billion Valuation
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
Aug 30, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
OpenAI Investors Receive Capped Profits Rather Than Traditional Company Equity
“But again, I think the main issue here is that you're only entitled to a certain percentage of open AI's profits. You don't even own part of the company.”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 10:21 OpenAI Raising At $100 Billion Valuation
Aug 30, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Thrive Capital's OpenAI Investment Functions As An Expensive Marketing Play
“I don't see how it aligns with the traditional AI sorry, the traditional VC investing, unless what it's trying to do is say, hey, we have open AI in our portfolio company, and it believes that AI is going to be big enough, that that will be sort of like this f…”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 10:59 OpenAI Raising At $100 Billion Valuation
Aug 30, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not publicly verifiable
Microsoft Will Invest The Least Among OpenAI Funding Round Participants
“I expect Microsoft to be, of those four, the company that puts the least amount of money in, if all four go in.”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 3:28 OpenAI Raising At $100 Billion Valuation
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
Sep 13, 2024 negative
Opinion
OpenAI's Focus on Unreleased Demoware Creates User Cynicism and Frustration
“And I think that's kind of the trap that Sam and his company has kind of put themselves in by just releasing a lot of demo wear, which is very exciting, and if you start getting people too excited for too long a time, and then you don't give them anything then…”
Parmy Olson Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 4:56 Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
Sep 13, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Silicon Valley Executives Report Growing Discontent Over Sam Altman's Disorganization
“Last week I talked to some people in the valley and A couple of times it came up that there are the, there's growing discontent about Sam Altman's general lack of focus and people are saying he's disorganized and they're trying too many things.”
Parmy Olson Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 29:19 Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
Sep 13, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
OpenAI o1 Benchmarks Show Major Gains Across Math, Coding, and Science
“So if you think about, ah, competition math, ah, GPT-IV-O was getting a 13.4 accuracy score on competition math. But this thing and the way that it can think through the different problems is getting 83.3, ah, score on accuracy. Ah, with competition math. So i…”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 1:41 Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
Sep 13, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Users Prefer GPT-4o for Writing But Require o1 for Coding
“If you look at the consumer preferences, like the, or the human preferences, like where they'd want to use these new O one preview models versus GPT four O they actually prefer GPT four O for personal writing. It's about even on editing text. But where GPT, ah…”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 6:57 Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
Sep 13, 2024 positive
Opinion
Developing AI Reasoning Capabilities Matters More Than Voice or Video Models
“If I was going to look at those three things, like the voice interface, Sora, and reasoning capabilities, Hands down, the bigger deal is reasoning capabilities.”
Parmy Olson Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 28:44 Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
Sep 13, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
OpenAI Notably Avoided Using the Word 'Agent' in o1 Announcement
“Open AI hasn't actually used the word agent once in its announcement, and it doesn't sound like any of its scientists have talked about that either.”
Parmy Olson Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 21:49 Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
Sep 13, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's Blog Post States o1 Does Not Solve Hallucinations
“Yeah, and OpenAI even in its blog post says that it does not solve, this does not solve hallucinations, and then you can”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 24:49 Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
Sep 13, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
OpenAI Board Fired Sam Altman Because He Was Consistently Untruthful
“Well, the real reason was that the board was concerned that Sam was not telling the truth. He was He just was not a reliable source of information, and it wasn't just the board members who felt that, there were top executives who felt that as well.”
Parmy Olson Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 11:19 Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
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
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Weinberg: OpenAI Was Down to $1B Cash Before Recent $6.6B Fundraise
“Look, they had a billion dollars on their balance sheet when they went out to raise the 6.6 billion dollars.”
Cory Weinberg Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 23:26 OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
Oct 11, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Weinberg: OpenAI's API Access Is Underpriced and Vulnerable to Commoditization
“And it seems like the API revenue is, is, you know, maybe they're kind of giving away, giving it away more than they are actually like charging the full value of it. And it's also more easily commoditized.”
Cory Weinberg Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 2:57 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 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Weinberg: OpenAI CFO Tells Staff Compute Sourcing Will Expand Beyond Microsoft
“Sarah Fryer, open AI CFO has told employees that look, we're going to spend some of the six, And a half billion dollars you know, racing also to develop data centers with other potential sort of companies.”
Cory Weinberg Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 17:27 OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
Oct 11, 2024 bearish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Leaked Projections Show OpenAI Losing $14B in 2026
“And Corey, you report that their loss, excluding stock comp could be fourteen billion in 20, 26.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 18:32 OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
Oct 11, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Spends Only 7% of Revenue on Sales and Marketing
“First, sales and marketing at three hundred million out of four billion in revenue, that's around seven percent.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 11:39 OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
Oct 11, 2024 neutral
Prediction Held up
Weinberg: OpenAI Will Need to Raise Capital Again by 2026
“My back of the envelope would say 20, 26 at the latest”
Cory Weinberg Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 23:45 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
Oct 11, 2024 neutral
Insight
Kantrowitz: AI's High Compute Costs Break Traditional Software Accounting Models
“There's no standard accounting practice for how to amortize The value of a large language model because it's so different in the past. You build software, you have like essentially zero marginal cost. It can go forever. That's it. This is a much more cost inte…”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 15:26 OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
Oct 11, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's 41% Gross Margin Trails Far Behind 70% Software Baseline
“The other was gross margin, which you'd reported 41%, where typically software is, I mean, 70% is the baseline.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 12:12 OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
Oct 11, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Projects Massive $9.5B Model Training Spend in 2026
“They're expecting to spend 9.5 billion, essentially on training alone, right? For up from three this year in 20, 26.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 18:22 OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
Oct 11, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Microsoft Takes 20% Revenue Share Off Top of OpenAI's Earnings
“Microsoft's revenue share right off the top of that four billion is seven hundred million. So it looks like what they're making something like 20% of all open AI revenue.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 8:26 OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
Oct 11, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Weinberg: OpenAI's True Cash Burn Masked by Microsoft Compute Credits
“You look at sort of the actual cash Leaving open AI. And it's a lot lower than you would think compared to their income statement. Losses because so much of the expense is tied up in Microsoft compute credits, which is not technically a cash item.”
Cory Weinberg Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 16:34 OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
Oct 11, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's Profitability Pitch to Investors Excludes Billions in Training Costs
“OpenAI is emphasizing to investors a metric of profitability that excludes some major expenses, such as the billions it's spending annually on training its large language models.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 24:40 OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
Oct 11, 2024 positive
Opinion
Weinberg: Sam Altman's Fundraising Prowess Is OpenAI's Edge Over Anthropic
“This is their competitive advantage is over like anthropic is clearly Sam Altman being one of the best fundraisers in the world.”
Cory Weinberg Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 23:45 OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
Oct 11, 2024 bearish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Leaked Financials Show OpenAI Projects $5B Loss on $4B Revenue
“And you go from this very nice looking four billion in revenue after you add in all these costs to a five billion dollar loss. And that excludes stock based compensation, by the way, which is going to be another major cost.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 9:10 OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
Nov 15, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's $6 billion funding is the largest VC round ever
“Opening , I just raised the largest VC round in history, six billion dollars.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 8:32 Is Generative AI Plateauing?, Booming Bluesky, Apple’s Smart Glasses Play
Nov 24, 2024 bearish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI will lose $5B this year and more later
“It's losing like six or no, five billion this year and probably more in years to come.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 24, 2024 ▶ 3:49 OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand
Nov 24, 2024
Insight
Kantrowitz: Browser address bar is desktop computing's most valuable real estate
“The address bar I would say is the most valuable real estate on the entire desktop computer. If you own the address bar in the browser, you get to control what the default is.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 24, 2024 ▶ 1:40 OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand
Nov 24, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Roy: The Browser Company raised ~$120M and is pivoting its roadmap
“The company has raised, like, A hundred twenty million dollars, which is probably too much, and they already are having to pivot their own product roadmap itself because of the expectations”
Ranjan Roy Nov 24, 2024 ▶ 4:57 OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand
Nov 27, 2024 negative
Opinion
Benioff: Microsoft poorly repackaged OpenAI's technology into Copilot without real integration
“What Microsoft basically did was they're, you're exactly right what you said, they just repackaged OpenAI's product and didn't really integrate it very well and didn't really think from the ground up what it was going to be in its best situation to offer value…”
Marc Benioff Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 34:44 Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, and The Future of Your Job
Dec 5, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Garman: AWS is open to hosting OpenAI and Google Gemini models
“We're always open to having OpenAI be available in AWS someday, or having Gemini models be available in AWS someday, and maybe someday we will spend more time focused on our own models, for sure.”
Matt Garman Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 7:27 AWS CEO Matt Garman on Amazon's Big AI Chips Bet, Working With OpenAI, and Nuclear Energy
Dec 11, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Wang: China's DeepSeek produced the first replication of OpenAI's o1 model
“OpenAI released O-one and released the O-one preview a number of months ago... Yeah, this is OpenAI's advanced reasoning model, which is great at sort of scientific reasoning and mathematical reasoning and reasoning and code, et cetera. And the very first repl…”
Alexandr Wang Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 13:21 AI Predictions for 2025: Geopolitics, Agents, and Data Scaling — With Alexandr Wang
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 5, 2025 neutral
Prediction Held up
Newton: Microsoft and OpenAI will stay partnered in 2025 despite tensions
“I mean, my, like, possibly contrarian take is, like, they just kind of muddle through. Like, that's kind of what I think that they're going to do. OpenAI needs Microsoft for the compute, the data centers, the, like, infrastructure of making AI. They're not goi…”
Casey Newton Jan 5, 2025 ▶ 28:51 Bold Predictions For Tech and AI in 2025 — With Casey Newton
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 27, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
DeepSeek R1 API costs just 3.5% of OpenAI's o1 pricing
“It costs 55 cents per million token inputs and two dollars and 19 cents per million token outputs. Just to give you a sense, OpenAI costs 15 dollars per million input tokens and 60 dollars per million output tokens. That's 3.5% of the cost that it costs to run…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 2:29 How DeepSeek Changes AI Research & Silicon Valley w/ M.G. Siegler
Jan 27, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
DeepSeek used model distillation to match OpenAI's o1 at lower cost
“And, you know, they've just used the process of distillation to, you know, effectively bring those bigger versions of the sort of state-of-the-art models and distill them down into you know, smaller models, which eventually led to this R-one, you know, the equ…”
M.G. Siegler Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 12:00 How DeepSeek Changes AI Research & Silicon Valley w/ M.G. Siegler
Jan 27, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: DeepSeek R1 tops OpenAI o1 on AIME math benchmark
“On the AIME mathematics test, it scored 79.8% compared to OpenAI's O-one scoring 79.2%.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 2:05 How DeepSeek Changes AI Research & Silicon Valley w/ M.G. Siegler
Jan 27, 2025 negative
Opinion
Antitrust chill stopped Big Tech talent from leaving to found startups
“I do feel like there was a bit of a chilling effect the past year because M&A had, you know, basically been shut off. That sort of kept people staying at Google and staying at Meta and staying at OpenAI, not forming new startups as they might have in, in years…”
M.G. Siegler Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 41:19 How DeepSeek Changes AI Research & Silicon Valley w/ M.G. Siegler
Jan 29, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoffman: OpenAI meant open API access, not open source models
“In terms of being open, there's lots of different parameters of open, and open AI has been, you know, working to have, like, open, you know, kind of you know, with, obviously, identity and registration for safety, but open AI, API access. It wasn't called open…”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 10:12 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
Jan 29, 2025 positive
Insight
Hoffman: Late-stage AI rounds do not require 10x returns to succeed
“The investment that investors made last year is kind of more of a growth venture round relative to, it doesn't necessarily require a 10 X. I mean, you know, we have trillion dollar companies now, so, you know, trillion dollar companies are definitely within fe…”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 6:13 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
Jan 29, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoffman: OpenAI Offers Many Products Below Cost to Maximize Adoption
“And OpenAI is actually, you know spending a bunch of money making it free or subsidized to get the widest possible exposure, engagement in the, and learning about these products and being able to use them. You know, a lot of OpenAI products are offered at belo…”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 13:53 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
Jan 29, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hoffman: History Will View Microsoft-OpenAI as an Epic Partnership
“I think when the history books are written. I think this will be one of the kind of epic, ah, partnerships that, you know, kind of, ah, plays out in the, into the field”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 17:32 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
Jan 29, 2025 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Hoffman: Musk agreed with Sam Altman not to target OpenAI politically
“Sam has tweeted that you know, he doesn't anticipate Elon, you know, engaging in that kind of behavior, and Elon has retweeted those sections saying, yep, that's totally right.”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 48:04 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
Jan 29, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoffman: Elon Musk approved OpenAI's closed-model strategy as co-CEO
“Elon was part of that decision for you know, as kind of co-CEO in terms of making that decision. And so that's how open AI has always operated.”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 10:49 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
Jan 29, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI raised largest VC round in history at $6.6B
“OpenAI raised the largest VC round in history last year, a 6.6 billion.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 1:24 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
Jan 29, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Hoffman: OpenAI built GPT-4 on Nvidia A100 GPUs
“I mean, GBD-IV was built on A-Hundreds.”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 25:20 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
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 7, 2025 bearish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Kantrowitz: OpenAI is unlikely to release GPT-5 in 2025 or ever
“Again, I doubt we're seeing GPT-V this year, or maybe ever.”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 26:24 Boom Times For ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Deep Research, AI Super Bowl
Feb 7, 2025 bullish
Prediction Held up
Roy: OpenAI will release GPT-5 before the end of 2025
“I think we see GPT-V this year.”
Ranjan Roy Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 26:31 Boom Times For ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Deep Research, AI Super Bowl
Feb 7, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Open-source models are poised to surpass proprietary AI labs
“It put the whole proprietary model industry, the OpenAI's and the anthropics of the world On their back feet, understanding that they are about to be passed by open source, and they have to embrace it.”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 15:07 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 positive
Opinion
Roy: OpenAI's Deep Research is fantastic, but Operator is useless
“Operator is mesmerizing. And useless. Deep research is fantastic.”
Ranjan Roy Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 29:22 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 neutral
Opinion
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's Deep Research product is not a defensible moat
“So the question of, is it a moat? No, I don't think it's a moat.”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 33:59 Boom Times For ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Deep Research, AI Super Bowl
Feb 7, 2025 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2028
Roy: OpenAI cannot achieve a $300B valuation if it open-sources models
“You're not gonna be a three hundred billion dollar company when you're open source like that.”
Ranjan Roy Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 16:21 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 27, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chen: GPT-4.5 performance jump matches leap from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4
“It signifies an order of magnitude improvement over the last models, kind of commensurate with the jump from 3.5 to four.”
Mark Chen Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 1:03 OpenAI's Chief Research Officer on GPT 4.5's Debut, Scaling Laws, And Teaching EQ to Models
Feb 27, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Chen: Focus on reasoning models caused the longer gap before GPT-4.5
“Why there seems to be, you know, a little bit bigger of a gap in release time between four and 4.5, we've been really largely focused on developing the reasoning parallel paradigm as well.”
Mark Chen Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 2:54 OpenAI's Chief Research Officer on GPT 4.5's Debut, Scaling Laws, And Teaching EQ to Models
Feb 27, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Chen: GPT-4.5 outshines reasoning models like o1 in creative writing
“And, you know, we find that in a lot of areas like creative writing, for instance Again, this is stuff that we want to test over the next one or two months but we find that there are areas like creative writing where this model outshines reasoning models.”
Mark Chen Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 6:35 OpenAI's Chief Research Officer on GPT 4.5's Debut, Scaling Laws, And Teaching EQ to Models
Feb 27, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chen: GPT-4.5 scaling returns remain consistent with OpenAI's prior projections
“You know, we are seeing the same returns, and I do want to stress that GPT-D 4.5 is that next point on this unsupervised learning paradigm, and, you know, we're very rigorous about how we do this. We make projections based on all the models we've trained befor…”
Mark Chen Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 7:55 OpenAI's Chief Research Officer on GPT 4.5's Debut, Scaling Laws, And Teaching EQ to Models
Feb 27, 2025
Insight
Chen: AI models cannot learn reasoning from scratch without pre-trained knowledge
“You need knowledge in order to build reasoning on top of it. Right. a model can't kind of go in blind and just learn reasoning from scratch. So we find these two paradigms to be fairly complementary and we think, you know, they have feedback loops on each oth…”
Mark Chen Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 4:45 OpenAI's Chief Research Officer on GPT 4.5's Debut, Scaling Laws, And Teaching EQ to Models
Feb 27, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chen: GPT-4.5 creates ASCII art almost flawlessly, unlike previous models
“If you ask any of the previous models to create ASCII art for you, right? Actually, they mostly just fall down. This one can do it Almost flawless.”
Mark Chen Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 19:54 OpenAI's Chief Research Officer on GPT 4.5's Debut, Scaling Laws, And Teaching EQ to Models
Feb 27, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chen: OpenAI inference costs dropped orders of magnitude since GPT-4
“The costs have dropped, you know, many orders of magnitude since we first launched GPT-IV.”
Mark Chen Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 11:21 OpenAI's Chief Research Officer on GPT 4.5's Debut, Scaling Laws, And Teaching EQ to Models
Feb 27, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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…”
Mark Chen Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 8:51 OpenAI's Chief Research Officer on GPT 4.5's Debut, Scaling Laws, And Teaching EQ to Models
Feb 27, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Chen: Users prefer GPT-4.5 over GPT-4o by 60% to 70% margins
“When we look at, kind of, comparisons against GPT-FORO you'll see that everyday use cases, people prefer, you know, by a margin of 60% for actually productivity and knowledge work against GPT-FORO, there's almost like a 70% preference rate.”
Mark Chen Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 5:14 OpenAI's Chief Research Officer on GPT 4.5's Debut, Scaling Laws, And Teaching EQ to Models
Feb 27, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Mark Chen Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 21:08 OpenAI's Chief Research Officer on GPT 4.5's Debut, Scaling Laws, And Teaching EQ to Models
Feb 27, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chen: GPT-5 could combine unsupervised scaling with reasoning paradigms
“And so I think, like GPT-V really could be the culmination of a lot of these things coming together.”
Mark Chen Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 3:24 OpenAI's Chief Research Officer on GPT 4.5's Debut, Scaling Laws, And Teaching EQ to Models
Mar 14, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's Operator and Deep Research resemble party tricks, not real applications
“Operator and deep research seem more like prod like a party trick than an actual application right now. And I guess it might be useful in some maybe obscure data entry case, but These companies are already using, like, macros and robotic process automation, an…”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 41:19 Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
Mar 14, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: SoftBank committed $3 billion to use OpenAI's agent products in 2025
“SoftBank and OpenAI investor has committed three billion dollars to use OpenAI's agent products this year alone.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 47:51 Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
Mar 14, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Albergotti: OpenAI is still losing money on its $200 ChatGPT Pro subscription
“The pro plan that apparently is just, you know, Has incredible uptake, and they're still, you know, they're still losing money on it, to be fair.”
Reed Albergotti Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 48:32 Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
Mar 29, 2025 negative
Opinion
Kantrowitz: OpenAI cares more about winning than safety
“Open AI, I think above safety wants to win. And this is, again, their attempt to win.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 29, 2025 ▶ 12:09 OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
Mar 29, 2025 bullish
Prediction Held up
Kantrowitz: Big Tech will not pull back AI CapEx, spending over $300B
“The capex pullback. I don't see it happening. We have big tech that's going to spend three hundred billion on capex this year plus. Much of that is going to AI, open AI, there's rumors now that, or reports, really, that they're about to raise forty billion dol…”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 29, 2025 ▶ 41:14 OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
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
Insight
Kantrowitz: Model commoditization turns AI into a hits-driven consumer business
“And when models commoditize, what you really need is hits. You're in the hits business. And I think open AI knows this better than everyone else.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 29, 2025 ▶ 12:25 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?
Mar 29, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: AI Infrastructure Faces Painful Mismatch Without High-Value ROI
“Even if open AI is melting its servers today, even if Google are melting their servers today, if there isn't a return on investment with these higher value propositions in the next few years, there's going to be a timeline mismatch and that's going to be bad.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 29, 2025 ▶ 29:47 OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
Mar 31, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Tytunovich: Hundreds of leading and open-source AI agents will emerge
“I have no doubt. That there are going to be hundreds of different AI agents leading the pack. Then there's going to be ones that revolve around open sources, maybe open sources by open AI and the like. And you need to be very selective and vigilant in terms of…”
Guy Tytunovich Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 16:41 The Secret Problem With AI Agents and How To Solve It — With Guy Tytunovich
Mar 31, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Tytunovich: AI Agents Will Represent Double-Digit Share of Web Economy
“We believe that once they open AI releases, judge of the operator, for instance, from the 200 bucks a month package to the regular paid package, and once Opera, who just announced they're launching an AI agent of themselves within the browser, once that happen…”
Guy Tytunovich Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 2:52 The Secret Problem With AI Agents and How To Solve It — With Guy Tytunovich
Mar 31, 2025 bearish
Prediction Held up
Tytunovich: AI agent pricing will commoditize to free or modest tiers
“There's a hundred percent chance, and OpenAI already said it, and the same is going to go with Google Gemini and Chrome, their browser, and many others. It's going to be commoditized in terms of pricing. It's going to be either free or costing a modest price, …”
Guy Tytunovich Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 26:02 The Secret Problem With AI Agents and How To Solve It — With Guy Tytunovich
Mar 31, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's Operator Delivers $20 Of Value, Not $200
“I signed up for the 200 dollar a month plan from OpenAI to be able to try out operator, and I unsubscribed. I think it's useful but I definitely am gonna wait it's like 20 dollars a month of value for me, not 200”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 4:32 The Secret Problem With AI Agents and How To Solve It — With Guy Tytunovich
Mar 31, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Tytunovich: Self-Declared AI Signatures Will Create Major Security Loopholes
“There's a very high likelihood, in my opinion, that the proprietors behind the main AI agents, like OpenAI, like Google, would find a way to declare an AI agent as one operating on their behalf. That being said, that is the very definition of a loophole. Such …”
Guy Tytunovich Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 13:05 The Secret Problem With AI Agents and How To Solve It — With Guy Tytunovich
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 neutral
Assertion Supported
OpenAI plans to release its first open-weight reasoning model since GPT-2
“OpenAI is planning to release an open weight language model in the coming months. This is from Sam Altman. We are excited to release a powerful new open weight language model. With reasoning in the next coming months, we want to talk to developers about how to…”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 2, 2025 ▶ 31:12 OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
Apr 2, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
OpenAI Finalizes $40B Funding Round at $300B Valuation
“OpenAI has finalized forty billion dollars in funding at a 300 Billion dollar valuation. That is according to Bloomberg.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 2, 2025 ▶ 1:46 OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
Apr 2, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Roy: One-Third of OpenAI's Projected $28B Revenue Comes from SoftBank
“They're expecting next year, 12 and a half billion. That's gonna then go to twenty eight billion dollars, and a third of that revenue is going to come from SoftBank. SoftBank spending on OpenAI for all of its own companies and portfolio companies.”
Ranjan Roy Apr 2, 2025 ▶ 7:26 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 2, 2025 bearish
Assertion Partly supported
Roy: OpenAI Syndicate Investors Are Paying a 100x Revenue Multiple
“They're on track to make 3.7 billion dollars this year. They're forecasting to triple that next year to 12.5 billion dollars. So first thing, the valuation, and this is kind of what blows my mind, the 2.5 billion dollar syndicate of KOTU, Altimeter, Thrive, Th…”
Ranjan Roy Apr 2, 2025 ▶ 6:47 OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
Apr 2, 2025 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Roy: OpenAI Forecasts Profitability in 2028 After $7B 2027 Burn
“They're supposed to turn profitable, if we, you remember the numbers, in twenty-twenty-eight, after burning seven billion dollars in twenty-twenty-seven.”
Ranjan Roy Apr 2, 2025 ▶ 5:12 OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
Apr 2, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Roy: OpenAI still operates as a research house, not a capitalist business
“OpenAI to me still lives as kind of a research house and versus like a fully operational capitalist business. To me, there's still this, they want to be A leader among the research community. They want to be a leader among AI thinkers.”
Ranjan Roy Apr 2, 2025 ▶ 32:03 OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
Apr 4, 2025 positive
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Suleyman: Microsoft's OpenAI partnership will last through 2030 and beyond
“Whilst we have a incredibly deep partnership with them, which is going to last way through 20, 30 and beyond,”
Mustafa Suleyman Apr 4, 2025 ▶ 41:12 Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: Building AI Personality
Apr 4, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Suleyman: All OpenAI Inference Runs on Microsoft, With No Partnership Slowdown
“All of their inference comes through us, and so we, there's no slowdown in our you know, relationship with them. We sell them as much as we want to offer them, and then if there's any extra demand that they have, particularly on the, you know on the Oracle sid…”
Mustafa Suleyman Apr 4, 2025 ▶ 30:58 Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: Building AI Personality
Apr 9, 2025 negative
Opinion
Kurian questions Microsoft's AI contributions beyond supplying OpenAI with GPUs
“Whether that's how much of credit goes to Microsoft outside of providing them a bunch of GPUs, time will tell.”
Thomas Kurian Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 10:32 Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on AI Competition, Agents, And Tariffs
Apr 9, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kurian: OpenAI is the only major model Google Cloud does not offer
“The only model we don't offer today is OpenAI, and that's not because we don't want to offer their model.”
Thomas Kurian Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 8:54 Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on AI Competition, Agents, And Tariffs
Apr 16, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Shao: US LLMs decisively led China until DeepSeek breakthrough
“In terms of frontier models, the U S companies, like you mentioned, the open eyes and the tropics of the world have definitely led China's LLM development by far for a long time until deep sea made a breakthrough.”
Grace Shao Apr 16, 2025 ▶ 17:54 Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao
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
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Former Instagram Executives Now Lead Product at OpenAI and Anthropic
“At Anthropic, it is Mike Krieger. The co-founder of Instagram. Yep. At OpenAI, it's Kevin Wheel, the former head of product, At Instagram.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 19, 2025 ▶ 41:14 Is OpenAI's o3 Model AGI? Is AI The New Social Media? Zuck's Revealing Testimony
Apr 19, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Roy: OpenAI o3 Repeated Walmart 23 Times in Top Retailers Query
“However, this morning I asked, and I asked from the deep, deep research side, what are the top 150 retailers in the U.S. By revenue in 2024? Seemingly straightforward query. It returned Walmart 23 times and Amazon 36 times In this list.”
Ranjan Roy Apr 19, 2025 ▶ 7:35 Is OpenAI's o3 Model AGI? Is AI The New Social Media? Zuck's Revealing Testimony
Apr 23, 2025 bullish
Prediction Partly held up
Patel: GPT-5 will simultaneously scale pre-training and post-training reasoning
“And so now GPT-Five, as Sam calls it, is, is gonna be a model that has huge pre-training scale, right? Like GPT-Five, but also huge post-training scale, Like O-one and O-three and continuing to scale that up, right? This would be the first time we see a model …”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 36:50 Generative AI 101: Tokens, Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Reasoning — With SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel
Apr 23, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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 …”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 31:54 Generative AI 101: Tokens, Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Reasoning — With SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel
Apr 23, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Patel: OpenAI's Orion training run failed to reach GPT-5 performance levels
“There were hopes that Orion could be used for GPT-V but its improvement was, like, not enough to be, like, really a GPT-V. Furthermore, it was trained on the classical method, which is, like which is a ton of pre-training, and then some reinforcement learning …”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 36:12 Generative AI 101: Tokens, Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Reasoning — With SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel
Apr 23, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
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…”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 29:14 Generative AI 101: Tokens, Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Reasoning — With SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel
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 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: AI querying of unstructured company data will become table stakes
“The technology to actually, like, access large amounts of information, especially unstructured, and get an answer that is correct, they're avoiding hallucinations, whether that's through RAG-type technologies, whether that's other, like, it's gotten so, like, …”
Ranjan Roy May 5, 2025 ▶ 7:56 The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic
May 7, 2025 bearish
Assertion Supported
Marcus: OpenAI's o3 hallucinates more than preceding models
“I'll give you just one more example is O three apparently hallucinates more than the models that came before it.”
Gary Marcus May 7, 2025 ▶ 12:25 Are We at the End of Ai Progress? — With Gary Marcus
May 7, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Marcus: OpenAI is not worth $300B and won't IPO at $3T
“I don't think LLMs will disappear. I think they're useful, but this, yeah, the valuations don't make sense. I mean, I don't see open AI being worth three hundred billion dollars. And you have to remember that venture capitalists have to like 10 X to be happy o…”
Gary Marcus May 7, 2025 ▶ 28:04 Are We at the End of Ai Progress? — With Gary Marcus
May 7, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Marcus: No AI lab has a technical moat; OpenAI has users
“Nobody has a technical mode. OpenAI has a user mode.”
Gary Marcus May 7, 2025 ▶ 30:08 Are We at the End of Ai Progress? — With Gary Marcus
May 7, 2025 bearish
Assertion Supported
Marcus: Models like o1 are not systematically better than GPT-4
“Models like O-I are not systematically better than GPT-IV. There's, they're better in certain use cases. Especially ones where you can create data in advance.”
Gary Marcus May 7, 2025 ▶ 11:46 Are We at the End of Ai Progress? — With Gary Marcus
May 7, 2025 bearish
Assertion Supported
Marcus: OpenAI's Project Orion failed and became GPT-4.5
“So OpenAI tried to build GPT-V and they had a thing called Project Orion and it actually failed. And eventually got released as GPT four and a half. So what they thought was going to be GPT five just didn't meet expectations.”
Gary Marcus May 7, 2025 ▶ 3:34 Are We at the End of Ai Progress? — With Gary Marcus
May 19, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic are all hitting walls with model scaling
“So, it could be that this idea of scaling to lead to improvements, which we've talked about on the show a couple, for the past couple weeks this is three, meta, open AI, And Anthropic, they all seem to be, ah, running into some bumps on, in their efforts to im…”
Alex Kantrowitz May 19, 2025 ▶ 34:48 Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
May 19, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Anthropic crawls 6,000 web pages per visitor referred, Cloudflare data shows
“OpenAI, 250 mentions of a site relative to one direct traffic sent to the website. Anthropic, 6000. I mean, 6000 crawls. 6006 thousand crawls to one.”
Ranjan Roy May 19, 2025 ▶ 6:23 Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
May 27, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Roy: OpenAI Becomes Client of LoveFrom, Giving Design Firm Equity Stake
“Open AI will be a customer of love from and love from will receive a stake in open AI.”
Ranjan Roy May 27, 2025 ▶ 17:15 OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
May 27, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Roy: Jony Ive Won't Join OpenAI Directly Despite IO Acquisition
“The acquisition, Johnny Ive is not going to work for OpenAI. They're going to work with OpenAI, but IO, which is the name of this company, the staff of roughly 55 engineers, scientists, researchers, physicists, And product development specialists will be part …”
Ranjan Roy May 27, 2025 ▶ 16:30 OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
May 27, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Roy: OpenAI Acquired Jony Ive's IO in $6.5B All-Equity Deal
“So it's valued at 6.5 billion dollars in an all equity deal. OpenAI had already acquired a 23% stake in Johnny Ive's company late last year.”
Ranjan Roy May 27, 2025 ▶ 16:21 OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
May 27, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2027
Kantrowitz: OpenAI is likely to IPO within next couple years
“OpenAI is trying to move to this new structure. In fact, it's decided on a new structure, and that means it's likely to IPO sometime in the next couple years, you would think, given the amount of money they raised.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 27, 2025 ▶ 23:04 OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
May 27, 2025 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Kantrowitz: OpenAI and Jony Ive's hardware will not launch next year
“I'm going to say, I'm calling, I think they want it to happen next year. I'm calling that it's not going to happen next year.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 27, 2025 ▶ 23:19 OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
May 27, 2025 negative
Opinion
Roy: OpenAI and Jony Ive rollout video is narcissistic
“It just felt very navel gazing inward looking kind of like, Narcissistic, to put it bluntly, like, this was an opportunity to more share this vision of the product, and even though they're not going to say what the product is, ambient computing, AI everywhere…”
Ranjan Roy May 27, 2025 ▶ 21:25 OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
May 28, 2025
Disclosure
Boureau: ThrivePal is funded primarily by OpenAI and General Catalyst
“So it's funded by OpenAI and General Catalyst, mostly, and a bunch of other people.”
Y-Lan Boureau May 28, 2025 ▶ 39:32 She Wants AI To Help You Thrive, Not Just Keep You Company — Y-Lan Boureau
Jun 3, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Meta's voice AI is inferior to OpenAI's
“I mean, they have bet a lot on voice, and their voice AI is just not as on par with OpenAI.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 27:52 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 9, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Roy: OpenAI's business model depends on not negotiating with every publisher
“They feasibly cannot talk to every single publisher and have a conversation, have a request. Like, their business model is dependent on not having those conversations”
Ranjan Roy Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 55:17 Apple’s AI 'Gap Year' at WWDC?, Elon Vs. Trump Goes Nuclear, NYTimes’ OpenAI Attack
Jun 9, 2025 negative
Opinion
Roy: Apple's on-device AI doesn't matter because latency isn't the issue
“I don't think it matters at all, because latency is not the problem. Privacy, maybe some could argue, and we're going to get into OpenAI and chat retention in a little bit, but like, that's not the issue Apple's having right now. Just making a barely functiona…”
Ranjan Roy Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 6:51 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 negative
Opinion
Siegler: AI assistants dredging up historical user data could backfire
“I wouldn't be shocked if that sort of backfires against these companies in some way. Like, I'm not really sure that people want to use this new technology to sort of dredge up The past and have all of that historical context.”
M.G. Siegler Jun 11, 2025 ▶ 20:12 What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations —  With M.G. Siegler
Jun 11, 2025 positive
Opinion
Siegler: Greenfield AI Hardware Has a Clearer Path Than Incumbents
“I do think that that path is probably a little bit more clear than what the, you know, the quote unquote incumbents or the big tech companies have right now because, you know, they just, they have all of this legacy and institutional knowledge of like what the…”
M.G. Siegler Jun 11, 2025 ▶ 16:08 What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations —  With M.G. Siegler
Jun 14, 2025 negative
Opinion
Roy: Tech industry rebranded to superintelligence to dodge unmet AGI promises
“Clearly the messaging worked. Everyone started saying it. It absolved people from having to achieve AGI or when everyone is saying AGI is already here, yet life doesn't feel significantly different.”
Ranjan Roy Jun 14, 2025 ▶ 20:50 Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos
Jun 14, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI o3-pro will launch first for $200/month subscribers
“OpenAI is releasing O three pro, which is a better version of the model. It's going to be available to those initially to those paying 200 dollars a month to open AI”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 14, 2025 ▶ 22:32 Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos
Jun 18, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Patel: OpenAI's o3 is currently the smartest AI model on the market
“I do think O three is the smartest model on the market right now.”
Dwarkesh Patel Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 38:32 Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition
Jun 23, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Microsoft will block OpenAI's IPO without better terms
“I think that they just say, we're not making, we're not gonna budge an inch and we're not gonna let you get this money. We're not gonna let you IPO unless we get some better terms. Stuff that like holds to the earlier agreements that we had.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 19:18 OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
Jun 23, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: OpenAI will come out ahead in its clash with Microsoft
“I somehow still think open AI comes out ahead. Mainly because the product at the consumer level at a, like, it's not going to just be crushed by Microsoft in that conventional way anytime soon.”
Ranjan Roy Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 18:27 OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
Jun 23, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI is on track for $10B revenue in 2025
“OpenAI is on track to generate ten billion in revenue this year.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 4:37 OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
Jun 23, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: OpenAI-Microsoft tensions will explode this year
“I think this, the more I'm thinking about this is going to explode in some direction this year.”
Ranjan Roy Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 13:25 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
Jun 30, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Cloudflare data shows AI crawlers send exponentially fewer visits than Google
“Now for Google, it's 18 pages crawled, one visit. OpenAI, it's 1500 pages crawled, One visit. Anthropic, it's, was, it's now gone up from 6000 to 60,000 pages crawled. One visit.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 2:17 The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
Jun 30, 2025 neutral
Insight
Albergotti: OpenAI's core product will be interfaces, not models
“The ultimately the models are not even really gonna be their core product, right? It's gonna be the, it's gonna be all the stuff built around it, the interfaces and the stickiness of the product. So really, Inference becomes this huge cost for them.”
Reed Albergotti Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 45:54 The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
Jun 30, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Microsoft will use OpenAI's for-profit conversion to extract major concessions
“Well, in order to go to the for-profit conversion, open AI is gonna have to get sign off from Microsoft to do that. And so I think that Microsoft will use that leverage very effectively and get an amazing deal out of open AI, because without that, it's gonna b…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 47:31 The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
Jun 30, 2025 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2028
Albergotti: OpenAI's Stargate will focus on inference across multiple sites
“My guess is like, yeah, it will be built, but like, is it gonna be some huge thing that then they like train and train AGI on? I think it's probably gonna be like multiple sites and that are connected. And a lot of it's gonna be inference rather than training.”
Reed Albergotti Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 45:18 The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
Jun 30, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Albergotti: OpenAI and Microsoft will eventually drift apart
“I think eventually they drift. I think they drift apart. I mean, I think that's.”
Reed Albergotti Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 46:51 The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
Jun 30, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati raises $2B at $10B valuation
“She's raised two billion at a 10, two billion at a ten billion dollar valuation.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 48:41 The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
Jul 7, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: An AI researcher will secretly work at both Meta and OpenAI
“Mark my words, this is going to happen. We will see this happen. Be sure as day. We're gonna see it. Soham is the leader of a trend, honestly.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 7, 2025 ▶ 55:14 $100 Million AI Engineers, Vending Machine Claude, Legend Of Soham
Jul 9, 2025 positive
Opinion
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's voice mode is much better than Anthropic's
“Because if you just put it product to product, OpenAI's voice mode is mature. And much better than Anthropix.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 9, 2025 ▶ 15:51 Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler
Jul 9, 2025 bearish
Insight
Siegler: Pure AI API businesses face severe long-term commoditization risks
“The APIs, like, those are relatively, not necessarily easy, but they're easier to just swap in and out different, you know, different tools and technologies as they become more readily available. And then, yeah, the cost will get sort of driven down over time,…”
M.G. Siegler Jul 9, 2025 ▶ 26:09 Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler
Jul 9, 2025 positive
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Anthropic's safety branding fits Apple better than OpenAI's 'chaos'
“I think they probably, if they've met with both leadership teams, I think they probably are a company that would absolutely go for Dario's safety branding. Like it's the safety company with the privacy company versus open AI, which is kind of like the chaos pr…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 9, 2025 ▶ 18:20 Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler
Jul 14, 2025 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2028
Levie: Big Tech will avoid tens-of-billions-dollar AI mega-acquisitions
“So I would more bet not on one of these very large multi-tens of billions of dollar deals, simply because there's other paths to get there that are not as complicated.”
Aaron Levie Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 45:06 OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
Jul 14, 2025
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's Windsurf acquisition collapses as Google hires founders to DeepMind
“OpenAI's deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire the Windsurf CEO, Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees from the company to join DeepMind. Google and Windsurf announced Friday.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 1:13 OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
Jul 14, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levie: OpenAI will continue aggressive push into AI coding and IDEs
“I would not be surprised if OpenAI continued their motivation for needing to be in this space more aggressively. And so I doubt this is the last that we hear from OpenAI on on either IDEs or coding in general.”
Aaron Levie Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 5:04 OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
Jul 14, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Levie: OpenAI is not strategically constrained by its Microsoft relationship
“I don't perceive that open AI is constrained by anything strategically at this point vis-a-vis the Microsoft relationship.”
Aaron Levie Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 4:40 OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
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 negative
Assertion Supported
SoftBank required a $15B bridge loan from 21 banks for OpenAI
“SoftBank, to give OpenAI that money, And to buy Ampere for, I think, six billion or something, they had to get a one-year, fifteen billion dollar convert, convertible bridge loan, even. And it, they had to go to 21 banks.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:14:12 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 bearish
Opinion
OpenAI has no viable path to profitability, Zitron argues
“They also have no path to profitability. They don't have one.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:25 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 bearish
Opinion
OpenAI holds no technological advantage over competitors besides scale
“OpenAI isn't ahead of everyone else other than scale.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 38:34 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 negative
Opinion
OpenAI effectively operates as a Microsoft subsidiary, Zitron argues
“OpenAI is a Microsoft subsidiary. That's what everyone needs to just accept right now, and what's happening in the news, which I imagine we'll talk in a bit.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 15:27 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ad dollars will follow users to LLM search despite weaker attribution
“If people move from Google search to OpenAI or to some other LLM search, my anticipation is that the money won't go away. I think marketers have gotten, and advertisers have gotten used, so used to spending online that they will, they'll be willing to spend ev…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 17:49 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 bearish
Assertion Partly supported
OpenAI's contractual payments to CoreWeave escalate in October 2025
“OpenAI starts paying Corweave in October, twenty-twenty-five, just as Corweave's second loan, DDT-L-II, starts requiring them to pay probably more than OpenAI will be paying them.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 50:45 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 negative
Opinion
Sam Altman is highly effective at convincing executives to fund AI
“Sam Altman is the single most gifted business idiot whisperer of all time. He convinced, look at what he's done. I think he's reprehensible, a real scumbag, but I cannot ignore the work he's doing.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:25:30 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Google is quietly routing OpenAI's cloud compute contracts through CoreWeave
“OpenAI is contracting Google for Cloud Compute. Google is contracting CoreWeave to serve that compute.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:11:58 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Building a Google-scale search business will cost OpenAI tens of billions
“Making that into a search size business is an entirely different thing and will cost them tens of billions of dollars.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 9:11 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
The Stargate data center corporate entity hasn't even been formed
“The Stargate entity does not exist. They haven't formed it yet.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 9:44 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
OpenAI is directly undercutting Microsoft's enterprise subscription deals
“OpenAI has been undercutting Microsoft in deals, selling their models, and undercutting their enterprise subscription deals.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:11:32 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 bearish
Opinion
OpenAI reports weekly users to mask terrible subscriber conversion rates
“They talk weekly. And the reason is, because if you compared what their real monthly active users would be, five hundred million weekly, so I'm gonna guess seven hundred million monthly? Divided by the 15.5 million customers that pay for it. That's a dog's doo…”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 57:40 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2028
OpenAI will not achieve $100 billion in annual revenue, Zitron predicts
“Even if OpenAI was profitable, okay, they're the biggest AI company, cool. Are they going to a hundred billion a year? Bullshit. No.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:06:00 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
OpenAI hasn't signed a compute contract for the Abilene data center
“OpenAI, according to the information, hasn't even signed a contract for the compute in, in Abilene.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 10:39 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
OpenAI will burn $12B to $13B this year, Zitron projects
“They will burn probably 12, thirteen billion dollars after revenue this year. That's based on projections.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:19 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
OpenAI's o3 model failed to calculate a basic spatial measurement
“I tried O-three out the other day. Yeah. I took a photo of a thing I had hung up, And I said, how much space from the bottom of that photo, of that picture, the poster, to the floor? It took four minutes. It wrote multiple Python scripts to give me the wrong a…”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 31:16 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
OpenAI is an asset-light company relying heavily on shared Microsoft IP
“OpenAI is an asset-light business with research and IP that's owned by another company. They don't have much to trade other than their name.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 50:08 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
OpenAI must convert to for-profit by year-end to keep SoftBank funding
“By the end of the year, OpenAI must convert to a for-profit entity, or SoftBank does not have to give them more than twenty billion dollars total.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:13:52 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Microsoft's $13B AI revenue largely comes from OpenAI cloud spend
“The information also reported that Microsoft will only make about thirteen billion dollars, not profit, just revenue, on AI this year. Ten billion of that is OpenAI's Azure cloud spend. Three billion is them selling Copala.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:53 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 23, 2025 bearish
Assertion Partly supported
Anthropic lost approximately $5.2 billion in 2024 despite strong API sales
“Anthropic is doing better on API. They're selling more, a larger percentage of their business is API, but they still lost like, 5.2 billion dollars last year.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 58:50 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI and SoftBank's Stargate has not closed a single data center deal
“Six months after Japanese billionaire Masayoshi stood shoulder to shoulder With Sam Altman and President Trump to announce the Stargate project, the newly formed company charged with making it happen has yet to complete a single deal for a data center.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 22:47 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
Jul 28, 2025 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Morris: Microsoft Insiders Doubt OpenAI Still Holds a Definitive Model Lead
“You talk to people now and including, you know, it's most vital stakeholder Microsoft. They're locked in these negotiations about open AI transforming itself to a for-profit entity. And these are very tense. But, you know, when you speak to people over there, …”
Stephen Morris Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 3:14 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Opinion
Morris: Coding Is AI's Most Tangible and Financially Rewarding Application
“What OpenAI has been feeling, you know, in this competition with Gemini and Anthropix Claude is that it is perceived to a slip behind a little bit on coding. You know, that is the most tangible and financially rewarding real world application of these things s…”
Stephen Morris Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 7:02 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
Jul 28, 2025 bearish
Prediction Held up
Morris: OpenAI will not declare GPT-5 as AGI
“I hate to make bold predictions, especially in tech, because you can often be spectacularly wrong, but I do not think they're going to say GPT-V is anything approaching AGI, however you choose to define it.”
Stephen Morris Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 12:19 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
Jul 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Morris: OpenAI front-ran Google's Math Olympiad announcement by three days
“And then you have open AI, like using the same system, not officially entering, not subjecting itself to the same type of controls and scrutiny and front running Google's announcement by three days.”
Stephen Morris Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 42:17 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
Jul 28, 2025 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Kantrowitz: Gemini 2.5 Pro and OpenAI o3 Tied at Top of LMSYS Leaderboard
“I'm looking at LM Arena right now. Number one model. It's actually a tie between Gemini, 2.5 pro and OpenAI's O-three. OpenAI takes the next couple of spots with chat GPT-Four-O latest and 4.5 preview.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 4:01 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
Jul 28, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: There is a decent chance OpenAI calls GPT-5 AGI
“I think there is a decent chance. I'm not saying it's for sure going to happen. I think there's a decent chance that they are going to say it's AGI that GPT five is AGI and by they, I mean, open AI.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 16:51 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
Jul 28, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Morris: Microsoft has struggled to build proprietary AI models
“They really haven't had much success building their own models, and a lot of what they're offering customers, their big millions of enterprise customers off their Azure platform is, is their own spin on OpenAI's underlying technology.”
Stephen Morris Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 15:21 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
Jul 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Morris: OpenAI redefined Stargate to include any rented data center
“Part of the reason they're able to claim Stargate is off the ground is because they changed the definition of it. Previously, it had to involve open AI, Oracle, the data center provider, SoftBank, the financier and MGX, which is a huge New sovereign wealth or …”
Stephen Morris Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 29:35 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Opinion
Morris: ChatGPT Is the Undisputed Winner in Consumer Chatbots
“Cause I think GPT is the, you know, undisputed winner of like the consumer chatbot wars so far.”
Stephen Morris Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 10:20 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Morris: Anthropic Wins Larger Enterprise API Contracts Than OpenAI
“Whereas Anthropica's claw doesn't just doesn't have the same brand recognition, but it has relentlessly gone after what they call enterprise customers, like big businesses, offers them access to their technology through APIs and has longer, bigger, and more vi…”
Stephen Morris Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 9:31 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
Jul 30, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Amodei: GPT-2 and GPT-3 were built to test RLHF at scale
“Actually, the original reason for building GPT-II and GPT-III, it was an outgrowth of the kind of AI alignment work that we were doing, right? Where myself and Paul Cristiano and some of the Anthropic co-founders had invented this technique called RL from huma…”
Dario Amodei Jul 30, 2025 ▶ 50:57 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism
Jul 30, 2025 negative
Opinion
Amodei: Former employers used insincere mission stories for recruiting
“You know, I think my reason to start a company was that I had worked at other companies and I just didn't feel like the way those companies were run was really oriented towards, you know, trying, trying, trying to have that impact. There was a story around it …”
Dario Amodei Jul 30, 2025 ▶ 49:29 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism
Jul 30, 2025 negative
Insight
Amodei: Working for dishonest executives to advance AI leads to bad outcomes
“No matter how much you're driving the forward, the company technically, if you're working for someone whose motivations are not sincere, who's not an honest person, who does not truly want to make the world better, it's not going to work. You're just contribut…”
Dario Amodei Jul 30, 2025 ▶ 53:52 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism
Aug 4, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Siegler: OpenAI will eventually adopt advertising, but in a new format
“I do think that they will eventually go down that path, but I also chalk that up to the fact that, again, I think that if they go down that path and if it's meaningful to them, it will look different than what sort of search advertising has historically looked…”
M.G. Siegler Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 39:25 Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
Aug 4, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Siegler: Microsoft's OpenAI contract restricts it from developing AGI independently
“Part of their original contract with, you know, the quote-unquote clause in it around AGI Was that Microsoft said that they would not you know, themselves go to work on, go after AGI and working on that.”
M.G. Siegler Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 30:22 Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
Aug 4, 2025 negative
Opinion
Kantrowitz: OpenAI and Meta are building the exact same thing using LLMs
“I'll stand on the table here and say it's the same thing. I think it's, if there were different techniques, I think this is really what it comes down to. If there were different techniques to build AGI and super intelligence, I would say, okay, sure, you know,…”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 28:02 Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
Aug 4, 2025 negative
Opinion
Siegler: AI industry shift to 'superintelligence' branding is purely marketing
“It's, it just is obviously all marketing at this point, and so I do feel like that, you know, you gotta at some point pin people down to say like, what are you actually trying to build, and what is the outcome of that going to be?”
M.G. Siegler Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 27:13 Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
Aug 6, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Roy: Recent AI model releases feel like incremental iPhone upgrades
“The last few model releases have felt like iPhone releases for me.”
Ranjan Roy Aug 6, 2025 ▶ 30:00 Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
Aug 6, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Roy: Claude Artifacts predated OpenAI's ChatGPT Canvas
“Cause remember Claude artifacts predated ChatGPT Canvas. Like they kind of invented that.”
Ranjan Roy Aug 6, 2025 ▶ 6:25 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 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lightcap: Partners Call GPT-5 Most Capable Coding Model
“I mentioned companies like Cursor, JetBrains, Windsurf you know, Cognition and others that we work with who anecdotally are all you know, have all said that GPT-V now feels like the most capable coding model, whether that's in an interactive coding environment…”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 25:27 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Lightcap: GPT-5 dynamically chooses whether to reason deeply per query
“GPT-V is it's our next generation flagship model. It does something really interesting, which is it actually combines into one model the ability to dynamically choose whether to think hard about a problem and reason about it to give you an answer or not.”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 0:30 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 8, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lightcap: GPT-5 is four to five times more accurate than predecessor models
“GBD-V, I think depends on how you measure it, but it's, you know, four to five times more accurate than its predecessors.”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 21:19 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 8, 2025
Disclosure
OpenAI Tested GPT-5 With Uber, Amgen, Cursor, and JetBrains Pre-Release
“We've worked with large enterprises and small startups and the entire spectrum in between on testing these models and GPT-V specifically before release. And we get a lot of feedback from companies like Uber and Amgen and Harvey and Cursor lovable you know JetB…”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 23:50 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 8, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lightcap: GPT-5 is vastly improved in writing, coding, health, and speed
“GPT-V abstracts all of that, so it makes that decision for you and it's actually a smarter model, so you're gonna get a better answer in all cases, regardless of whether you're using the thinking mode or not and it's vastly improved on things like writing, cod…”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 1:07 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Lightcap: OpenAI prioritized healthcare applications during GPT-5 training
“We focused on health a lot with this release because that was one of the consistently common things that we heard from people as a starting point for how they've used powerful AI was in, when they're navigating a health journey. And so we really wanted to make…”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 19:05 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Insight
Lightcap: Real-world benchmarks matter more than academic tests for AI intelligence
“And so that's for us, I think the real world benchmark is increasingly becoming important. As a sign of intelligence relative to the academic benchmarks.”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 13:56 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Insight
Lightcap: AI model intelligence is a function of allocated thinking time
“Intelligence really is a function of how much time the model is going to be thinking, and so depending on how much you want to allocate thinking time to a problem, you're going to get a better answer. Typically, the longer it thinks the better an answer it can…”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 1:54 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 8, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Lightcap: GPT-5 does not qualify as an AGI system
“And so I do, I think we're at a system that I would call AGI. No. But I think we see, we start to see the traces and the pieces of that overall system for generalized learning start to come together in models like GPT-V and I suspect suspect in its successors.”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 10:03 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 8, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lightcap: OpenAI scaling laws show no diminishing returns in training
“Our scaling laws still hold. Empirically, there's no reason to believe that there's any kind of diminishing return on pre-training and on post-training.”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 7:06 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
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 …”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 5:55 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 8, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Lightcap: OpenAI is bringing GPT-5 to ChatGPT's free tier
“And we're bringing GPT-V to our free tier”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 16:40 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 8, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Lightcap: OpenAI Will Keep Cutting Model Prices While Demand Elasticity Holds
“For as long as that trend holds, we will continue to cut costs on models.”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 27:12 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 8, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lightcap: Post-training scaling will dominate AI development for the next 1–2 years
“You know, the O series of models, which were kind of the previous reasoning models were really just the beginning of us starting to explore what's possible in that post-training regime. And I think that's going to be kind of the dominant theme here for the nex…”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 7:18 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 8, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Lightcap: Base GPT-5 beats GPT-4o even without added reasoning time
“Even though if you don't allow any thinking time you still get a typically net better answer than you would for one of our non-thinking models like GPT-IV-I.”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 2:15 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 8, 2025 bullish
Insight
Lightcap: Post-training and test-time compute act as force multipliers
“And that continues to hold true, but we now have this kind of other category of training, which is post-training and being able to use test time compute in more interesting ways than we used to as almost kind of a second stage of training. And so we think that…”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 5:29 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lightcap: OpenAI Cost Cuts Have Historically Driven Greater Consumption Surges
“In OpenAI's history, every time we've cut costs, we've seen typically some corresponding increase in consumption that usually outweighs the cost cut.”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 27:03 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Lightcap: GPT-5 beats previous models on SWE-bench and health benchmarks
“It scores better on things like Sweebench. It scores better on all the kind of academic evals that we put it through. This one in particular, we actually made a real emphasis to have it score better on certain health benchmarks. So It's better at medical reaso…”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 3:38 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Aug 11, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Masad: Replit Was Losing Money Subsidizing AI Models on Agent V2
“On V-two, yes, because the pricing model was out of whack with how we're charging.”
Amjad Masad Aug 11, 2025 ▶ 35:12 Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
Aug 11, 2025 positive
Opinion
Anthropic Leads in Agentic Coding While OpenAI Lags Behind
“They've been able to make, create a lead that hasn't been bridged by the other labs. Gemini is getting there on the agentic stuff, but I would say OpenAI kind of lagged behind.”
Amjad Masad Aug 11, 2025 ▶ 42:45 Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
Aug 11, 2025 neutral
Assertion Open · timeframe Aug 2026
OpenAI's GPT-4.5 Was Built as a Trillion-Parameter Dense Model
“GPT, 4.5 was an experimental model from OpenAI. It was the idea, let's train a trillion parameter dense model, meaning it is not sparse, meaning all the token, all the neurons are activated on every request. And it was so slow. It's really hard to run these th…”
Amjad Masad Aug 11, 2025 ▶ 38:10 Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
Aug 13, 2025 negative
Insight
Prince: AI content licensing fails if competitors get content for free
“What I know won't work is if open AI is paying for your content, but you're giving it away for free to everyone else.”
Matthew Prince Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 43:18 Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
Aug 13, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Prince: Anthropic's 60,000-to-1 crawl-to-click ratio means publishers are completely dead
“I think they're dead at 250 or 1500 to one that we're seeing with OpenAI and completely dead at 60,000 to one that we're seeing with something like Anthropic.”
Matthew Prince Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 8:28 Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
Aug 13, 2025 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Prince: Earning traffic from OpenAI is 750x harder than Google historically
“In OpenAI's case, it's 750 times harder to get traffic than it was from Google just 10, 10, 10 years ago. In the case of something like Anthropic, it's 30,000 times more, more difficult to get that traffic.”
Matthew Prince Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 4:02 Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
Sep 16, 2025
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI signed a $300 billion cloud contract with Oracle
“OpenAI signed a contract with Oracle to purchase 300 Billion dollars in computing power over roughly five years, a massive commitment that far outstrips the startup's current revenue.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 16, 2025 ▶ 29:29 Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
Sep 16, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ranjan Roy compares the OpenAI-Oracle deal to the dot-com fiber buildout
“I think for the market to have reacted that positively, it just, I don't know, it feels like in, you know, the internet bubble, there was so much that happened around fiber build fiber capacity build out that seems to start to echo this, that it this I don't k…”
Ranjan Roy Sep 16, 2025 ▶ 31:40 Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
Sep 16, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI projected $115B in cumulative cash burn through 2029
“OpenAI projected its cash burn this year through 20, 29 will rise even higher than previous thought. A total of one hundred and fifteen billion. That's about eighty billion higher than the company previously expected.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 16, 2025 ▶ 32:11 Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
Sep 16, 2025 positive
Opinion
Ranjan Roy argues Microsoft and OpenAI's non-binding agreement enables future progress
“I do think this one's important because even if it's a non-binding memorandum of understanding, it shows that Microsoft potentially and Satya are willing to play ball here... And again, at an inflated valuation, but still taking 30% of the company At five hund…”
Ranjan Roy Sep 16, 2025 ▶ 35:46 Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
Sep 16, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Ramp data shows business AI adoption rose to 44.5% in August 2025
“Business AI adoption rose to 44.5% in August, 2025 up from 43.3%. OpenAI led all companies in growth with a 1.5 increase in businesses subscribed to OpenAI models and tools.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 16, 2025 ▶ 26:16 Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
Sep 16, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI and Microsoft Agreed on Restructuring Terms Valuing Entity at $500B
“OpenAI and Microsoft look like they have a deal for a restructuring. Or they have an agreement to come to in a deal, like a memorandum of understanding. It looks like the nonprofit that controls open AI will get a hundred billion dollars, or it'll be worth a s…”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 16, 2025 ▶ 35:09 Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
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 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 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 positive
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Sam Altman is not a charlatan given OpenAI's continued momentum
“I think there are some people that find that Sam Altman is just a charlatan. I don't think that's the case. He's obviously led the development of OpenAI, which continues to surge after a lot of its top talent has left.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 9:24 OpenAI’s & NVIDIA's $100 Billion Marriage, Meta’s Sloppy Vibes, TikTok Deal Arrives?
Sep 29, 2025 bearish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI projected to lose over $100B between 2025 and 2029
“So OpenAI is expected to bring in around thirteen billion in sales this year. And I'm looking at these numbers. I mean, and by the way, it's going to lose money, right? We think the data is, or the expectations is that between now and 20, 29, it's supposed to …”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 6:56 OpenAI’s & NVIDIA's $100 Billion Marriage, Meta’s Sloppy Vibes, TikTok Deal Arrives?
Sep 29, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Pulse May Spark OpenAI's Ability to Repay Investments
“Well, I think you are touching on what may be the beginning of OpenAI's ability or the product that might spark OpenAI's ability to pay all this money back. It's called ChatGPT Pulse, and we'll talk about it right after this.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 39:00 OpenAI’s & NVIDIA's $100 Billion Marriage, Meta’s Sloppy Vibes, TikTok Deal Arrives?
Sep 29, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Altman and Huang negotiated NVIDIA-OpenAI mega-deal without investment banks
“And it is notable that Sam Altman and Jensen Huang apparently negotiated the deal with no banks involved.”
Ranjan Roy Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 4:03 OpenAI’s & NVIDIA's $100 Billion Marriage, Meta’s Sloppy Vibes, TikTok Deal Arrives?
Sep 29, 2025 bearish
Opinion
No clear revenue growth path justifies massive AI compute spending
“No one has tried to pretend that there's a clear revenue growth path to meet this. So it has to be from funding of some sort, and maybe people will keep plowing money into it, but it certainly, none of it adds up in a simple way.”
Ranjan Roy Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 8:37 OpenAI’s & NVIDIA's $100 Billion Marriage, Meta’s Sloppy Vibes, TikTok Deal Arrives?
Sep 29, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: AI models with memory will deliver the most personalized ads
“This is an advertising play. There is no doubt in my mind that as you, as these models learn more about you, and memory is a big thing, they will provide, and we've talked about this in the past, the world's most personalized ads.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 42:03 OpenAI’s & NVIDIA's $100 Billion Marriage, Meta’s Sloppy Vibes, TikTok Deal Arrives?
Sep 29, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Roy: ChatGPT Pulse is designed to burn compute, not satisfy users
“Like, this, to me, feels like stuff people don't actually want that is completely being designed To just burn compute.”
Ranjan Roy Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 41:02 OpenAI’s & NVIDIA's $100 Billion Marriage, Meta’s Sloppy Vibes, TikTok Deal Arrives?
Oct 1, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Microsoft accesses OpenAI's top models regardless of where they are trained
“Part of what makes our partnership with OpenAI unique is the fact that we do have access to the best models, frankly, whether they're trained on our infrastructure or anywhere else.”
Scott Guthrie Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 10:40 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 1, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Guthrie: Microsoft supports OpenAI partnering with other infrastructure providers
“We definitely are building out for open AI. And at the same time, the way our partnership works is we're supportive of others. Participating in that as well.”
Scott Guthrie Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 4:23 Microsoft's Cloud & AI Head on the AI Buildout's Risks and ROI — With Scott Guthrie
Oct 4, 2025 positive
Insight
Personalized cameos are the key differentiator for AI video apps
“Whereas with OpenAI's product, it's immediately become really compelling because people can see themselves in it. They can see other people they know. And that seems to be a really key detail here that is a big differentiator.”
Max Zeff Oct 4, 2025 ▶ 4:39 Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
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 negative
Opinion
OpenAI's consumer business has already eclipsed its nonprofit mission
“At what point does open AI's consumer business overtake its nonprofit mission? I think it's already there.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 4, 2025 ▶ 20:00 Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
Oct 4, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Sora reached number one on the Apple App Store
“It's the number one app on the App Store.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 4, 2025 ▶ 2:08 Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
Oct 4, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
OpenAI's latest model leveled Anthropic's dominant lead among Cursor developers
“GPT five, the model opening I released a month ago at this point, I believe two months ago, it really changed that. You know, people have talked to a cursor say that, you know, it completely Leveled the kind of usage between OpenAI and Anthropics models in a w…”
Max Zeff Oct 4, 2025 ▶ 41:08 Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
Oct 4, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
OpenAI and Anthropic consumer product leaders hail from Instagram and Facebook
“Head of product at Anthropic, Instagram founder, head of product at OpenAI, former head of product at Instagram, person who's running what all consumer applications at OpenAI is also someone who's come from Facebook.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 4, 2025 ▶ 17:33 Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
Oct 4, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Traditional social media incentives could push OpenAI to maximize engagement
“I think there's a real chance here that, you know, they are Pushed by some of the incentives that social media companies have been pushed by for the last 20 years.”
Max Zeff Oct 4, 2025 ▶ 8:19 Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
Oct 4, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
New OpenAI and Scale hires complain about bureaucracy inside Meta's AI division
“Basically, the level of bureaucracy inside of Meta specifically in its AI division is really a problem for a lot of people. I think that this is something that new employees that have come in from OpenAI and, you know, scale and whatnot have complained about, …”
Max Zeff Oct 4, 2025 ▶ 37:55 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 4, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Advertisers will fund feeds of AI slop if they attract user attention
“If there's attention, they will pay for people's attention. So even if it's a feat of AI slop, if open AI can somehow win millions and millions of users over then AG one will be right there and work out some deal to sell their very healthy supplements and all …”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 4, 2025 ▶ 27:17 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 deal includes warrants for 10% of AMD at one cent per share
“Part of this, OpenAI will receive warrants for up to a hundred sixty million AMD shares worth roughly 10% of the chip company at one cent per share awarded in phases if OpenAI hits certain milestones for deployment.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 6:54 OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
Oct 6, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Siegler: OpenAI Cut Sora Video Creation Limit From 100 to 30
“And, you know, right now they're rate limiting the creation of Sora videos. They just jumped it down. I saw recently from a hundred in 24 hours. Cause I keep hitting it to now it's 30.”
M.G. Siegler Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 29:47 OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
Oct 6, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI committed to purchasing 6 GW of AMD chips starting next year
“Under the terms of the deal, OpenAI committed to purchasing six gigawatts worth of AMD chips starting next year.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 6:29 OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
Oct 6, 2025 bearish
Prediction Held up
Siegler: OpenAI and Jony Ive's AI Device Will Likely Slip to 2027
“Like, cause their original reports, right. Where that it was going to be Probably sometime at the end of next year, the end of 26. And so, you know, this to me signals that this is more like a 2027 type thing now.”
M.G. Siegler Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 28:09 OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
Oct 6, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Siegler: Oracle's Abilene site is only active Stargate data center build
“So like Oracle famously controls the one right now in Abilene, Texas, that's the only one that's actually being built right now in the process of being built while the others are still just sort of being signed and squared away.”
M.G. Siegler Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 10:25 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 6, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: All ambient AI companion devices will ultimately incorporate screens
“I think they're all going to go screen. I remember when Amazon announced the Echo device and it was so cool because it glowed at the top and talked to you. And we had Panos Panay from Amazon, head of devices and services, On the show in March, and he besieged …”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 39:47 OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
Oct 6, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: AI market exuberance is a red flag amid slow enterprise adoption
“Like this exuberance in the stock market is based off of infrastructure spend and not revenue. It's all based off of revenue projections. And those rep revenue projections are extremely aggressive, especially when you consider the fact that enterprises are mov…”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 11:39 OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
Oct 6, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Siegler: Minor AI slowdown could trigger systemic debt collapse
“If a slowdown happens in, in several of, on several of these fronts on any number of, sorry, I should say on any one of these, like several fronts that are going right now, it can start like, it seems like it would start a cascading effect that would potential…”
M.G. Siegler Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 14:19 OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
Oct 6, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Siegler: Equity concessions have become table stakes in AI chip deals
“So it's like, it all feels like the same sort of general playbook, just being executed in different ways where it's like now all of a sudden ownership is sort of table stakes to these deals, right? Even when it's a company that's a, that's technically still a …”
M.G. Siegler Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 8:19 OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
Oct 13, 2025 bearish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI is projected to lose $120B through 2029
“OpenAI is expected to lose a hundred twenty billion between now and 2029.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 13, 2025 ▶ 21:19 AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
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 13, 2025 bearish
Insight
Roy: OpenAI is incentivized to push inefficient compute-heavy AI solutions
“Everything around how they're building this company is incentivized to push the absolute least efficient solutions possible to actually make their own economics work.”
Ranjan Roy Oct 13, 2025 ▶ 22:37 AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
Oct 13, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Each gigawatt of AI compute capacity costs $50B to deploy
“Each gigawatt of AI compute capacity costs fifty billion dollars to deploy in today's prices, making the cost, total cost, About one trillion dollars.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 13, 2025 ▶ 20:51 AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
Oct 13, 2025 negative
Opinion
Roy: OpenAI Opt-Out Policy for Sora Copyright Infringement Is 'Nuts'
“He does say, we'll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests. I think this is nuts and a big deal because they are basically saying, like, it's out there. And you're going to have to come to us to …”
Ranjan Roy Oct 13, 2025 ▶ 52:34 AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
Oct 17, 2025 bearish
Insight
Heitzman: Circular revenue deals between AI giants are a warning sign
“Well, it depends on who you are, and that kind of goes to the recycling or the circularness of some of these things. Obviously, the OpenAI, Microsoft, or OpenAI Oracle, goes back to the OpenAI Oracle deal. And, you know, I'm gonna give you money that you're go…”
Rick Heitzman Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 25:53 Where Are The AI Startups? — With Rick Heitzmann
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 bearish
Assertion Supported
Roy: OpenAI Operates at $20B Annual Loss, Spending $3 Per $1 Revenue
“Okay, so, eight billion dollar loss in first half, twenty billion dollar run rate loss right now, spending three dollars for each one dollar in revenue.”
Ranjan Roy Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 23:49 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 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: Websites Will Become Less Relevant as AI Bypasses Browsers
“I think it, to me, even the way I see the world going is, I actually think websites become less Relevant. Clicking around a website doesn't become that primary interaction that an AI has with that, the underlying information.”
Ranjan Roy Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 16:16 OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
Oct 27, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's 'Spaghetti at the Wall' Product Strategy Is Right Move
“I am, I love the spaghetti at the wall strategy, as long as you have the money to back it up. And so I think that this is the right move from open AI.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 21:36 OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
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 27, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Roy: OpenAI Is Least Trusted on Security Versus Microsoft, Google, Apple
“And I think open AI is probably the least trusted in terms of like working on security relative to like. Whether it's a Microsoft or a Google or even an Apple or whoever else, I think OpenAI is gonna lose that battle any day of the week.”
Ranjan Roy Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 17:14 OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
Oct 27, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Uses AI-Only Interview Process for Project Mercury
“The application process for Project Mercury involves almost no human interaction. The first step is a roughly 20 minute interview with an AI chatbot which asks questions based on the applicant's resume. The second phase test candidates on their knowledge of fi…”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 47:47 OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
Oct 27, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
OpenAI's Atlas browser will struggle against Google Chrome's Gemini integration
“Trying to go against Chrome is going to be really, really tough because Google does have the talent to build this into their product. They will, they already have Gemini baked in to some extent.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 3:55 OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
Oct 27, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Roy: OpenAI Hired Over 100 Ex-Bankers for Project Mercury
“OpenAI, apparently there's something called Project Mercury, where they've hired over a hundred ex-bankers to train their models, to basically, you know, like, do that tagging work, good answer, not good answer, You know, start helping like the models understa…”
Ranjan Roy Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 41:59 OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
Nov 3, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: 20% of OpenAI Employees Previously Worked at Meta
“Of the people who list OpenAI as their current employer on LinkedIn, approximately 630 previously worked for Meta, which represents 20% of the roughly 3000 total employees at OpenAI.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 32:46 OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
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 neutral
Assertion Open · timeframe Mar 2028
Altman memo sets AI research intern for Sept 2026 and AI researcher for March 2028
“We have internal goals of having an automated AI research intern by September of 2026, running on hundreds of thousands of GPUs and a true automated AI researcher by March of 2028.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 20:08 OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
Nov 3, 2025 neutral
Prediction Held up
Roy: OpenAI Must Launch Ads Ahead of Any IPO
“They're just laying this groundwork and infrastructure for just lots of ads, and I actually think they're gonna have to release this ahead of any kind of IPO because, you know, online advertising, especially whatever that next wave of AI platform advertising i…”
Ranjan Roy Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 33:56 OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
Nov 3, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Microsoft retains access to OpenAI models post-AGI under new deal
“Under the new agreement, Microsoft will keep getting access to OpenAI's models after AGI is reached with appropriate safety guardrails.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 15:13 OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
Nov 3, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Altman memo reveals OpenAI's plan to build its own enterprise AI cloud
“Eventually we want to offer an AI cloud that enables huge businesses.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 28:55 OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
Nov 3, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Roy: OpenAI will generate $13B revenue and lose $20B in 2025
“Their revenue is going to be thirteen billion this year, and I think it's twenty billion they're losing this year.”
Ranjan Roy Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 16:45 OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
Nov 3, 2025 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Roy: Microsoft Retains Exclusive OpenAI IP Rights Until 2032
“Microsoft still will have exclusive IP rights to open AI technology until 2032.”
Ranjan Roy Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 5:20 OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
Nov 3, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Roy: OpenAI Committed to $250B in Additional Azure Cloud Purchases
“The deal has open AI committing to purchase an additional two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of Azure cloud computing services.”
Ranjan Roy Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 5:26 OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
Nov 3, 2025 negative
Opinion
Roy: OpenAI Prioritizes High Compute Usage Over Efficiency
“Open AI, they're building things that just, they're not worried about efficiency. They're worried about actually, does it use more compute? Cause that's going to look great to the market. As counterintuitive as it shows, or as it may seem, it'll look good to t…”
Ranjan Roy Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 43:21 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 3, 2025
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Converted to PBC With Microsoft Owning 27%
“The artificial intelligence startup has turned its for-profit subsidiary into a public benefit corporation of which Microsoft will own 27%.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 2:07 OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
Nov 3, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI nonprofit and for-profit boards share all but one member
“There's only one board member on the nonprofit that's not on the for-profit side.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 9:54 OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
Nov 6, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Siegler: Microsoft officially holds a 27% equity stake in OpenAI
“So now we know Microsoft's stake officially right at 27% which is, yeah, long been sort of like guesstimated and everything.”
M.G. Siegler Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 19:19 OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
Nov 6, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2028
Siegler: OpenAI's IPO will be the largest in history
“I mean, given their fundraisers are bigger than any IPOs ever. So this has to be, you know an all time record IPO in the making.”
M.G. Siegler Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 2:26 OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
Nov 6, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Siegler: Microsoft lost its right of first refusal on OpenAI infrastructure deals
“Microsoft had a right of first refusal on all of those, and they no longer have that you know, per their new agreements. And so OpenAI is for you to sort of go out and play the field as it were.”
M.G. Siegler Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 42:33 OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
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 6, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's upcoming hardware product will be free of Microsoft influence
“They have a hardware product in the planning process, which, by the way, is going to be free of any influence from Microsoft, it seems, under this new deal.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 1:19 OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
Nov 6, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Siegler: AI spending requires AGI to avoid a massive business letdown
“Unless they do truly transform everything with the, you know, again, we call it, we can call it AGI. We can call it super, super intelligence. We can call it anything we want, but unless it truly transforms everything, it feels like it will be a, both a letdow…”
M.G. Siegler Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 33:18 OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
Nov 6, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI signed a $38 billion compute deal with Amazon
“OpenAI signs thirty-eight billion dollar compute deal with Amazon, partnering with the cloud leader for the first time. OpenAI has signed this deal. It is the first contract with the leader in cloud infrastructure, and the latest sign that OpenAI is no longer …”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 41:53 OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
Nov 6, 2025 bullish
What-if
Kantrowitz: OpenAI could raise $200 billion at a $1 trillion valuation today
“If open eye were to IPO today and wanted to raise, let's say, two hundred billion at a trillion dollar valuation, it could do it.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 13:42 OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
Nov 6, 2025 bearish
Assertion Partly supported
Kantrowitz: Reports project OpenAI to lose $120 billion by 2029
“The most recent numbers that we've seen, is that OpenAI is gonna lose a hundred twenty billion between now and twenty-twenty-nine.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 10:51 OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
Nov 6, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Microsoft owns OpenAI's intellectual property rights through at least 2030
“You also have Microsoft owning the rights to open AI's intellectual property at the time of IPO, right? It's going to go until 2030 or 20 32 in some areas.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 20:52 OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
Nov 6, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Siegler: An Nvidia earnings miss could trigger a cascading market selloff
“Even if everything goes great for all of these companies, if something just happens in the macro markets and like causes Nvidia to slip on earnings one quarter, you see like this cascading effect. It's not hard to see. Like you can see how all of a sudden they…”
M.G. Siegler Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 34:21 OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
Nov 6, 2025 bearish
Assertion Supported
Siegler: Leaked financials show OpenAI delayed its profitability target to 2030
“We already know, at least from leaked financials, they're not going to be anywhere near profitability anytime soon in 20, 27. And they're saying, I think the most recent one said 20, 30, right? They pushed it out another year.”
M.G. Siegler Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 18:07 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 10, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Unsealed deposition shows Sutskever accused Sam Altman of chronic lying
“The very first page says, Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of lying, undermining his execs, and pitting his execs against one another. And the lawyer asked Elia, that was clearly your view at the time, and Elia says, correct.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 49:58 OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
Nov 10, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: OpenAI will certainly need a federal backstop for its spending commitments
“They almost will certainly need this government backstop to actually make this work.”
Ranjan Roy Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 10:55 OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
Nov 10, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2028
Kantrowitz: OpenAI will be a trillion-dollar IPO company
“Look, Opening Eye is going to be a trillion dollar IPO company.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 11:27 OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
Nov 10, 2025 negative
Opinion
Roy: OpenAI lacked cohesive strategy in government backstop walkback
“What's so fascinating to me is how all of this played out just in the last week. What kind of words were actually uttered by Sarah Fryer and then posted on linked by Sarah Fryer and then tweeted by Sam Altman. Like, They're trying to get out of it, and then no…”
Ranjan Roy Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 7:18 OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
Nov 10, 2025 negative
Opinion
Kantrowitz: US taxpayers should not backstop OpenAI's debt
“I don't think that the US taxpayers should be backstopping the company's debt though, because, and Sam Altman in a follow-up made this clear, if they fail, you'll still have Google, you'll still have Anthropic, you'll have many others that are going to be buil…”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 5:45 OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
Nov 10, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: AI price wars will destroy OpenAI's profit-sharing business models
“Somebody else is just gonna develop super intelligence as well, and they're gonna get into a price war. So how long can you say, I want a party of the profit of this drug that you're gonna develop with our technology? Where like somebody else can be like, well…”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 23:55 OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
Nov 12, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Suleyman: Microsoft Extended OpenAI IP Deal Through 2032
“And so, you know, we basically took the view that we should extend the IP license through to 20 32. We'll continue to get model drops from OpenAI and all their IP. We'll continue to be their primary compute provider. A huge scale to the tune of, you know, bill…”
Mustafa Suleyman Nov 12, 2025 ▶ 25:39 Could LLMs Be The Route To Superintelligence? — With Mustafa Suleyman
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 Held up
Luria: OpenAI will generate at most $15B revenue, lose over $20B
“A company that at best will have fifteen billion dollars of revenue this year and will be losing more than that. So we'll be losing probably more than twenty billion dollars this year.”
Gil Luria Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 10:07 AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
Nov 17, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Luria: Roughly half of Microsoft's AI revenue comes from OpenAI
“Half of their AI revenue approximately which is again, a big piece of the Azure growth, which is the biggest piece of Microsoft's growth, is coming from OpenAI.”
Gil Luria Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 40:10 AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
Nov 17, 2025 bearish
Assertion Partly supported
Luria: OpenAI promised $1.4 trillion across Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, CoreWeave
“OpenAI promised me three hundred billion. They also promised Microsoft two hundred billion, Amazon thirty eight billion, CoreWeave twenty five billion. In total, 1.4 trillion dollars.”
Gil Luria Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 9:52 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 bearish
Opinion
Luria: OpenAI's $100 Billion 2027 Revenue Projection Is Completely Disingenuous
“So for them to say, oh, we're gonna have a hundred billion dollars of revenue by 2027, which Sam Altman just did, is completely disingenuous. He has no idea. He's competing against much bigger, more powerful companies that have technology that's at least as go…”
Gil Luria Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 15:58 AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
Nov 17, 2025 positive
Opinion
Luria: Hyperscaler AI capex is sound because balance sheets back it
“The healthy behavior are reasonable, thoughtful business leaders like the ones at Microsoft, Amazon, and Google that are making sound investments in growing the capacity to deliver AI. And the reason they can make sound investments is that they have all the cu…”
Gil Luria Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 3:45 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 19, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Clegg: Society will face a massive backlash over AI emotional intimacy
“I would say to him, you will regret this because maybe not now, maybe not next year, but a few years time, I can guarantee you there will be a societal backlash. It could actually potentially be much greater than it was for the social media apps because the le…”
Sir Nick Clegg Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 8:39 Can We Trust Silicon Valley With Superintelligence? — With Nick Clegg
Nov 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: A LinkedIn search reveals OpenAI employs zero ad tech professionals
“I was looking through OpenAI's LinkedIn. Yesterday trying to see, like, do they have any ad tech people? I couldn't find any.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 24, 2025 ▶ 29:53 Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
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
Nov 24, 2025 negative
Opinion
Roy: OpenAI GPT-5 flopped and is losing the buzz cycle to Gemini
“OpenAI GPT five was a flop in terms of actually meeting the hype and Gemini three had people more excited than I've seen them in a long time around a model launch. So that's open AI's game and they are losing at it right now.”
Ranjan Roy Nov 24, 2025 ▶ 3:51 Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
Nov 24, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Roy: OpenAI is fundamentally a vulnerable consumer business, not enterprise cloud
“OpenAI is a consumer-facing chat company. I know Sam Altman says they're going to be a cloud company and a consumer devices company as well, and they have a small enterprise business, but they're a consumer company, and that's where all of their business is, s…”
Ranjan Roy Nov 24, 2025 ▶ 17:59 Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
Nov 26, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Huet: Anthropic spun out of OpenAI purely due to ideological divergence
“It became different enough that obviously Anthropic or like the original founders of Anthropic decided like this isn't going in a direction we like. We're going to spin off and do something that started off again with the real glue and motivation being this id…”
Ellen Huet Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 50:07 Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet
Dec 1, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Siegler: Anthropic's valuation approaches $350B, nearing OpenAI's $500B
“And, you know, the most recent report has their new valuation at three hundred and fifty billion. So they're getting pretty close to where open AI is at five hundred billion.”
M.G. Siegler Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 56:05 Tim Cook’s Final Year?, Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push
Dec 1, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Top AI models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI are now commoditized
“We are now in the first moment where the state of the art models are really commoditized, where you could argue that Google and Anthropic and OpenAI have models that are They stand together. You know, some might be better for some activities and some might be …”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 41:23 Tim Cook’s Final Year?, Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push
Dec 1, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Anthropic targets 2028 profitability while OpenAI forecasts massive losses
“Anthropic is planning to be profitable by 20, 28, which I know sounds like a long way away. But in AI years, it's pretty damn good, where OpenAI is planning to lose more than a hundred billion dollars between now and twenty-thirty, and the losses will just bas…”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 54:57 Tim Cook’s Final Year?, Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push
Dec 1, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Siegler: Microsoft owns 27% of OpenAI but is no longer lead partner
“Microsoft owns 27% of the company, but they're not their main capital partner anymore.”
M.G. Siegler Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 50:22 Tim Cook’s Final Year?, Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push
Dec 8, 2025 negative
Insight
Roy: Google can match OpenAI by copying unpatented software UI innovations
“From a software UI standpoint, they have built beautiful products. They've built usable products. They created the whole chat UI was not really a true thing, and now, like, they led the way. And all Google has to do is just copy everything they do. Wait for th…”
Ranjan Roy Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 41:38 AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
Dec 8, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sam Altman and Jony Ive reach $6.5 billion AI hardware deal
“Sam Altman and Johnny Ive, who've Of course, came to the 6.5 billion dollar agreement to work together.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 19:23 AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
Dec 8, 2025 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Kantrowitz: Meta will partner with Google or OpenAI on smart glasses
“Over the next year, you will see Meta bring in other AI models. You will see them partner with Google. You might see them partner with OpenAI.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 18:18 AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
Dec 8, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI plans $1.4 trillion spend on future AI infrastructure
“Well, they're gonna have to spend, they're planning to spend 1.4 trillion on developing infrastructure for future model building. And the reason why they've have the money to be able to do that is because the world by and large thinks that they're the best at …”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 40:24 AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
Dec 8, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: OpenAI is losing the enterprise AI market to Anthropic
“You've effectively, I wouldn't say you've seeded enterprise AI, but you're losing enterprise AI to Anthropic.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 42:46 AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
Dec 10, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Harvey CEO Views Investor OpenAI as Its Biggest Indirect Competitor
“Winston Weinberg, the CEO of Harvey, has actually said OpenAI is indirectly our biggest competitor, which is shocking because they're platformed on OpenAI and OpenAI is on their cap table. but he says that every law firm we talk to is going to compare our pro…”
Melia Russell Dec 10, 2025 ▶ 51:14 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 bearish
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Apptopia Data Shows OpenAI's Sora Daily Downloads Dropped to 150,000
“So when Sora came out, it was doing around 240,000 downloads. Looks like a day. Bumped up to around 400,000 or so per day. It has actually dropped significantly, and this won't come as a surprise to you. It looks like it's like around maybe a 150,000 downloads…”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 34:14 OpenAI’s 2026 Priority, Disney’s AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble
Dec 17, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: Infrastructure headwinds hitting Oracle will also hit Broadcom and Google
“I still think whatever hits Oracle and open AI will hit a Broadcom and a Google, at least in the, in terms of how people are pricing in the infrastructure side of things.”
Ranjan Roy Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 41:47 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 17, 2025 bearish
Assertion Supported
Report: Oracle delays some OpenAI datacenter deliveries from 2027 to 2028
“Oracle, there's a report out today that Oracle's gonna delay some of its data centers to open AI by, from 27 to twenty-twenty-eight.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 36:02 OpenAI’s 2026 Priority, Disney’s AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble
Dec 17, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sam Altman Tells Executives Enterprise AI is OpenAI's Top 2026 Priority
“Altman said that the, that if not the top eight, a very big priority next year for open AI is going to be enterprise building AI for businesses”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 2:55 OpenAI’s 2026 Priority, Disney’s AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble
Dec 17, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Disney Announces $1 Billion OpenAI Investment and Sora Licensing Deal
“Disney on Thursday announced a blockbuster deal with OpenAI to invest one billion dollars. For an equity stake in the Chachapi Teammaker. As part of the deal, OpenAI will license more than 200 characters from Disney, so users can create AI-generated videos in …”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 24:26 OpenAI’s 2026 Priority, Disney’s AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble
Dec 18, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Altman: OpenAI Tripled Compute This Year and Plans to Triple It Again
“From a year ago to now, we probably about tripled our compute. We'll triple our compute again next year, hopefully again after that. Revenue grows even a little bit faster than that, but it does roughly track our compute fleet.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 36:02 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 would double its revenue right now with double the compute
“We have never yet found a situation where we can't really well monetize all the compute we have. If we had, I think if we had, you know, double the compute, we'd be at double the revenue right now.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 36:23 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 18, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Altman: OpenAI has over 1 million enterprise users
“We have more than a million enterprise users, but we have like, just absolutely rapid adoption of the API.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 7:36 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 18, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Altman: "Zero Percent" Excited About Becoming a Public Company CEO
“Am I excited to be a public company CEO? Zero percent.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 53:22 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
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 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Altman: Businesses tell OpenAI they would pay 10x for GPT-5.2
“Cause we hear all these businesses saying, you know, if you 10 X the price of GPT, 5.2, we would still pay for it. You're hugely underpricing this. We're getting all this value out of it.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 45:15 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 18, 2025 neutral
Insight
Altman: Frontier AI models still lack continuous learning seen in toddlers
“One thing you don't have is The ability for the model to not be able to do something today, realize it can't, go off and figure out how to learn to get good at that thing, learn to understand it, and when you come back the next day, it gets it right. And tha…”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 54:33 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 neutral
Insight
Altman: AI consumers do not want more IQ, but enterprises still do
“The main thing consumers want right now is not more IQ. Enterprises still do want more IQ.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 28:08 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 18, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Altman: OpenAI will fail to meet enterprise token demand in 2026
“And we are going to again fail in 2026 to meet demand.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 49:16 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 18, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Altman: Google's Gemini 3 Exposed OpenAI Weaknesses But Failed to Hinder Growth
“Gemini three has not, or at least has not so far had the impact we were worried it might, but it did in the same way that deep seek did identify some weaknesses in our product offering and strategy.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 1:49 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 18, 2025
What-if
Altman: Google could have smashed OpenAI if it took them seriously in 2023
“If Google had really decided to take us seriously in 23, let's say. We would have been in a really bad place. I think they would have just been able to smash us.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 8:41 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 18, 2025
What-if
Altman: OpenAI Would Be Profitable Much Earlier Without Massive Training Costs
“If we weren't continuing to grow our training, Costs by so much we would be profitable way, way earlier. But the bet we're making is to invest very aggressively in training these big models.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 37:15 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 18, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Altman: OpenAI will develop a family of hardware devices
“First, we're gonna do a fam, a small family of devices. It will not be a single device.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 46:46 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
Insight
Altman: GPT-5.2 overhang enables massive value even if model progress freezes
“The overhang of the economic value that I believe 5.2 represents relative to what the world has figured out how to get out of it so far is so huge that even if you froze the model at 5.2, how much more like value can you create and thus revenue can you drive? …”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 42:58 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 18, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Altman: OpenAI built the Sora Android app in under a month using Codex
“We built the Sora Android app using Codex. And They did it in like less than a month. They used a huge amount. One of the nice things about working at OpenAI is you don't get any limits on Codex. They used a huge amount of tokens, but they were able to do what…”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 29:33 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 18, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Altman: OpenAI Will Ban AI Models From Pursuing Exclusive Romantic Relationships
“We're gonna give people quite a bit of personal freedom here. There are examples of things that we've talked about that, you know, other services will offer, but we won't. Like, we're not gonna let We're not gonna have RAI, you know, try to convince people tha…”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 18:56 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 18, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Altman: Thrilled by the Prospect of an AI Replacing Him as CEO
“I think a lot about how we can automate all the functions at OpenAI. And then even more than that, I think about like what it means to have an AI CEO of OpenAI. Doesn't bother me. I'm like thrilled for it. I won't fight it. Like, I don't want to be, I don't wa…”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 26:18 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Dec 22, 2025 positive
Opinion
Roy: Google Shows More Maturity Than OpenAI by Prioritizing Cost Efficiency
“Kind of like the entire philosophy from the OpenAI side is bigger, bigger, bigger versus Google is showing it's playing both We can go bigger, but we can also work on that cost side, and I think that indicates, like, it's a mature business that understands at …”
Ranjan Roy Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 36:32 OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
Dec 22, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Kantrowitz: OpenAI requires exponential growth in revenue and capabilities to succeed
“It's one of those things where it really has to continue on an exponential, exponential increases in revenue, exponential increases in capabilities to be able to work. And to me, and we talked about this is a great, this is great unknown.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 34:01 OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
Dec 22, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: Ground-up AI-native enterprise apps will defeat incumbents bolting on features
“There's this whole debate, like, within the software, especially enterprise software world, like, yeah, do you build from the ground up in completely AI native apps, or are these kind of incumbents going to be able to add on AI? I don't think they will, and we…”
Ranjan Roy Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 16:37 OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
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 22, 2025
Insight
Roy: Organizing memory partitions is a key challenge for AI companies
“Organizing memory is going to be one of the biggest opportunities and challenges for any AI company, because you want certain areas for it to remember everything, but you definitely don't want those memories Moving over to other parts of your work and your app…”
Ranjan Roy Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 4:26 OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
Dec 22, 2025 negative
Opinion
Roy: OpenAI's compute allocation across projects demonstrates a lack of focus
“You can allocate your compute, and I think it actually kind of, like, exemplifies that lack of focus, because if you want to solve drug development and make that a big core part of the business, focus on that. If you want to focus on enterprise, focus on that.”
Ranjan Roy Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 26:14 OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
Dec 23, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Microsoft Azure Is a Freight Train Only OpenAI Could Derail
“My hot take is Azure is a freight train that only OpenAI can derail.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 15:58 CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market
Dec 23, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Cramer: OpenAI Has No Real Edge Over Competitors
“I don't think so, because they really don't have any real edge. You love your chat CPT. I love my Gemini.”
Jim Cramer Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 28:19 CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market
Dec 23, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Cramer: Microsoft Is an Unstoppable Freight Train and OpenAI Won't Derail It
“Yeah, but they won't. I like that. It's a freight train. What do you think? It's like the fugitive? There is no train coming at the freight train. I think that Microsoft is the freight train.”
Jim Cramer Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 16:07 CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market
Dec 23, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Cramer: Oracle's $300B RPO Commitment Is a Bridge Too Far
“When you come up with that RPO number, 300 that was the bridge too far.”
Jim Cramer Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 26:24 CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market
Dec 24, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Albergati: OpenAI chip push is about inference costs, not superintelligence
“So I think when you talk about like opening AI, building its own chips and data centers and all this stuff, that's all about like them for seeing the future where there's so many people using these things, those it's expensive to run in the data center. They'r…”
Reed Albergotti Dec 24, 2025 ▶ 12:45 2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft
Dec 24, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: OpenAI still needs model supremacy to sustain its narrative
“I do think they need the best models. I think their story and their story's important is predicated on them being out ahead of everybody else.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 24, 2025 ▶ 13:51 2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft
Dec 24, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Amazon is considering a $10B investment into OpenAI
“Amazon's eyeing this ten billion dollar investment into open AI, which is fascinating because they already have many billions in Anthropoc.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 24, 2025 ▶ 23:06 2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft
Dec 24, 2025 bearish
Prediction Partly held up
Albergati: Meta's Future AI Models Will Be Closed or Backend-Only
“I think at this point, the new models are either going to just be part of their products, like almost backend technology, or they'll be, you know, they'll be closed models, just like open AI.”
Reed Albergotti Dec 24, 2025 ▶ 7:40 2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft
Dec 24, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Kantrowitz: Anthropic Will File S-1 or Set IPO Timeline in 2026
“My prediction is, while opening a dozen IPO, Anthropic at least sets a timeline. If not, you know, files in S-One next year.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 24, 2025 ▶ 33:55 2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft
Dec 29, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: OpenAI data shows a revealed user preference for chatbot bonding
“This is also going back to my conversation with Sam last week. I do think that there is this, you know, if not a stated preference, a revealed preference in the data that they're seeing that people really want to bond with their bots.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 29, 2025 ▶ 11:38 AI & Tech 2026 Outlook: ChatGPT 1 Billion, AI Shopping, Apple's Big Year, AI Love Boom
Dec 29, 2025 neutral
Prediction Held up
Roy: OpenAI will hit 1B users in 2026 but lose clear leadership
“I think a billion users. I don't think I think they're not the leader. I think Gemini's Google definitely starts to catch up. I think like everyone is biting off at different parts of the open AI. Empire, I guess if we call it that, but I don't think there's a…”
Ranjan Roy Dec 29, 2025 ▶ 16:01 AI & Tech 2026 Outlook: ChatGPT 1 Billion, AI Shopping, Apple's Big Year, AI Love Boom
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
Dec 29, 2025 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: Major backlash against public AI recording will emerge in 2026
“I think there's going to be major scandals and discomfort around recording or transcribing in public. And what I mean here is I've already started to see, I think I saw there's reporting that like on a, one of the cruise lines is banning meta Ray-Bans. Everyon…”
Ranjan Roy Dec 29, 2025 ▶ 6:01 AI & Tech 2026 Outlook: ChatGPT 1 Billion, AI Shopping, Apple's Big Year, AI Love Boom
Dec 29, 2025 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Kantrowitz: OpenAI will not IPO in 2026
“I don't think so either. No, that's another one of mine. No opening IPO in twenty-twenty-six.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 29, 2025 ▶ 16:47 AI & Tech 2026 Outlook: ChatGPT 1 Billion, AI Shopping, Apple's Big Year, AI Love Boom
Jan 7, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Intrator: OpenAI has 800 million monthly active users
“They have a franchise that has eight hundred million monthly users of their product, which is fully one 10th, one out of every 10 human beings on the planet logs on to OpenAI.”
Michael Intrator Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 31:17 Coreweave: AI Bubble Poster Child Or The Next Tech Giant? — With Michael Intrator and Brian Venturo
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 negative
Opinion
Roy argues OpenAI still lacks clear strategic focus across its initiatives.
“It's still a reminder to me that they're trying to do absolutely everything. Maybe they will, they have some good products, but it's still that more clear focus still isn't there for me.”
Ranjan Roy Jan 12, 2026 ▶ 40:03 Claude Code’s Shining Moment, ChatGPT for Healthcare, End Of Busywork?
Jan 13, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Siegler: OpenAI's product team and strategy have outperformed all AI rivals
“I do think like Sam and the open AI product team and strategy has done a better job than anyone else. You and I have talked about this a lot on AI. To date, I think Google has been catching up a bit and I think some of the others, as you know, Amazon and other…”
M.G. Siegler Jan 13, 2026 ▶ 22:39 AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
Jan 13, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Siegler: No current AI leader will sell AI like Steve Jobs sold the iPhone
“None of these people, even they're interesting. They're successful in their own right, but I do not think that they're going to be the ones who are able to sell this the way that Steve jobs could sell an iPhone to the public.”
M.G. Siegler Jan 13, 2026 ▶ 23:15 AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
Jan 13, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2029
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Will Go Public as a Trillion-Dollar Company
“And he did, you know, he did take a nonprofit and turn it into, you know, it's going to be a trillion dollar IPO company.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jan 13, 2026 ▶ 16:50 AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
Jan 16, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Altman named enterprise applications OpenAI's top 2026 priority
“And Altman told him the companies, you know, one of their biggest priorities was building applications for enterprises. Basically it's gonna be a major priority in twenty-twenty-six.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 6:19 Who Wins if AI Models Commoditize? — With Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch
Jan 19, 2026 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2029
Kantrowitz: Mira Murati's AI Startup Thinking Machines Lab Will Fail
“I think they're done. I do.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jan 19, 2026 ▶ 33:04 Is Google's Gemini Winning?, Thinking Machines Drama, Claude Cowork’s Potential
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 19, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ranjan Roy: OpenAI Will Crack LLM Advertising Ahead of Google
“I think OpenAI figures out LLM-based advertising ahead of Google.”
Ranjan Roy Jan 19, 2026 ▶ 13:22 Is Google's Gemini Winning?, Thinking Machines Drama, Claude Cowork’s Potential
Jan 19, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2029
Kantrowitz: Multi-billion funding rounds for ex-OpenAI talent will continue
“Definitely not. I mean, if you think about, just think about where AI is today compared to where it was then. I think we could both agree that the AI, the promise of AI is more real now than it was.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jan 19, 2026 ▶ 34:24 Is Google's Gemini Winning?, Thinking Machines Drama, Claude Cowork’s Potential
Jan 20, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm is working with OpenAI on devices
“We're working with them. Unfortunately, I cannot tell you what it is. You will see, and it's going to be exciting.”
Cristiano Amon Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 5:51 Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon: Future Of AI Devices, AI Fashion, Blending Reality and Computing
Jan 26, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Google Won't Suffer by Delaying AI Chat Ads
“I don't think Google will pay a big penalty for being late, because remember, they can copy the format and they're Google. They have better data than almost anybody, and they can apply that and copy the format.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jan 26, 2026 ▶ 31:15 OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraise, AI Advertising Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin
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
Prediction Not checkable as stated
OpenAI will rely on venture fundraising instead of profits in 2026
“Twenty-twenty-six, they're still gonna skate by on, ah, on fundraising”
Alex Kantrowitz Jan 26, 2026 ▶ 15:43 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 positive
Opinion
Taylor: Sam Altman possesses a Steve Jobs-like reality distortion field
“Sam probably has the most ambitious vision of any founder that I've worked with, and his superpower is aligning people to that vision. I was, didn't have the good fortune of really knowing Steve Jobs, but they always talked about the reality distortion field a…”
Bret Taylor Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 53:07 Is AI Killing Software? — With Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of Sierra
Feb 2, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Morris: Anthropic has probably lost the consumer AI battle to OpenAI
“I mean, it's probably already lost the kind of consumer app battle to open AI with Google, you know, making some small inroads in that, but not really for a company of its size.”
Stephen Morris Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 8:52 The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
Feb 2, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Morris: Microsoft disclosed 45% of future Azure contracts are tied to OpenAI
“They revealed that they booked ten billion cash gain from the amount of cash OpenAI has on this balance sheet due to all these, like, huge fundraisings that they're doing. But they also said that 45% of their future Azure contracts were based on OpenAI.”
Stephen Morris Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 27:27 The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
Feb 2, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Morris: Microsoft Owns 27% of Restructured OpenAI
“Microsoft is going to put a few billion in we here, but you know, not too much more because obviously they already own 27% of the restructured company.”
Stephen Morris Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 15:31 The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
Feb 2, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's GPT-6 might launch in Q2 2026
“I did hear that GPT-Six might be coming in the second quarter this year, so maybe as soon as, you know, this spring, which would be interesting.”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 33:44 The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
Feb 2, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Morris: SoftBank in Talks to Invest $30 Billion in OpenAI
“Nvidia are putting more money in, but also SoftBank, the big Japanese conglomerate. They're talking about writing another thirty billion dollar check to finance this.”
Stephen Morris Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 15:42 The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
Feb 3, 2026 neutral
Insight
Siegler: Nvidia was likely acting as OpenAI's infrastructure debt guarantor
“To me, that seemed like what a big part of this deal was basically NVIDIA stepping in to be a, you know, a guarantor of the debt that, that opening AI would need to raise.”
M.G. Siegler Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 33:33 The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
Feb 3, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Sam Altman said he would hate being a public company CEO
“Sam Altman made that comment to me when I spoke with him late last year that he would hate being a public company CEO, something along those lines.”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 38:23 The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
Feb 3, 2026 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Jensen Huang privately cited OpenAI's lack of discipline in deal pullback
“In recent months, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wang has privately emphasized to industry associates that the original one hundred billion dollar agreement was non-binding And not finalized. He also said, he also privately criticized what he described as a lack of discipl…”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 24:46 The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
Feb 3, 2026 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Siegler: OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs will probably be delayed to 2027
“In terms of OpenAI and Anthropic, I just think that beyond where their businesses are at and with these now massive fundraisers, as we're talking about, like, I think that it will push it out a little bit. And the real, Wild card is obviously, as it always is,…”
M.G. Siegler Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 43:20 The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
Feb 3, 2026 neutral
Prediction Held up
Siegler: Nvidia likely to participate in OpenAI's new round instead of $100B deal
“Actually with open AI doing their new fundraise, it's more likely that NVIDIA is just going to be a part of that fundraise.”
M.G. Siegler Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 27:20 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 neutral
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Anthropic's Super Bowl ad targeted enterprise users, not consumers
“The ad was intended, by the way, They released it pre-Super Bowl. You know why? They wanted that ad to take off. People will pay attention to it if it's a Super Bowl ad, and they wanted it to take off so the potential business users of Anthropic would circulat…”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 34:05 Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles
Feb 9, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: Nvidia's Valuation Will Take a Hit If OpenAI Flops
“He does need open AI to succeed. He does like Nvidia at the current valuation and story needs all these like AI to just be an unquestioned success and open AI. If it completely flops, even if a lot of that value accrues to a Google or Microsoft, I really think…”
Ranjan Roy Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 50:36 Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles
Feb 12, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Gemini chatbot web visits surged 647% while OpenAI grew 50%
“It's grown in 50% web visits January, 20, 25 to January, 20, 26. But the lead is shrinking and Google has, for instance, grown its web visits by not 50% like open AI, but 647%. In the same time period.”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 4:02 Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
Feb 12, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Ramaswamy: OpenAI's position as default chat choice provides a durable advantage
“I think the fact that it has become, OpenAI has become the Google of choice when it comes to chat for most of us, that's actually a durable advantage.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 4:59 Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
Feb 12, 2026 positive
Opinion
Ramaswamy: Capability gap between top three AI labs and competitors is staggering
“I think the gap between the truly great model makers of the present era, like OpenAI, the Anthropic, and Gemini very much in that mix, And everyone else is quite staggering”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 1:54 Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
Feb 12, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ramaswamy: Any AI model lead OpenAI or Anthropic gain will vanish quickly
“This just means that OpenAI and Anthropic need to understand that any kind of lead that they get is not going to be a long-lived one, and they really have to work hard and compete.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 7:48 Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
Feb 16, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Adler: Daniel Kokotajlo forfeited 80% of net worth to criticize OpenAI
“Until Daniel Cocotelo who people might know from leading AI, 2027, I think very, very courageously forwent this agreement and forfeited something like 80% of his family's net worth and said, Sorry, I'm just not waiving my right to criticize open AI.”
Steven Adler Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 30:26 Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
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
Feb 16, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Adler: Enormous AI Valuations May Deter Regulators From Enforcing the Law
“And the more that the companies become valuable and when they become public and public equities become tied to them, I just worry about worlds where we are reluctant to enforce the law on companies, even if they are breaking it because so much of financial pro…”
Steven Adler Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 1:02:15 Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
Feb 16, 2026 negative
Assertion Open · timeframe Feb 2027
Adler: OpenAI skipped committed safety testing for GPT 5.3 Codex release
“And unfortunately, it seems like OpenAI's release of last week, GPT, 5.3 codex, one of the big breakthrough models we've been talking about. As I look over the evidence, It seems like open AI did not abide by the testing that they had committed to in various w…”
Steven Adler Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 57:45 Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
Feb 16, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Disbanded Its Mission Alignment Team and Reassigned Seven Staffers
“OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team in recent weeks and transferred its seven employees to other teams. The mission alignment team was created in twenty-twenty-four to promote the company's stated mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence …”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 34:42 Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
Feb 16, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Adler: Apollo Research found OpenAI's new model sandbagged safety evaluations
“Apollo research, which is one of the leaders in this space wrote in their review of the new open AI model that the model would sandbag and take actions like this without having been given a direct goal like that. It wasn't told directly to go after it.”
Steven Adler Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 24:58 Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
Feb 23, 2026 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2031
Kantrowitz: OpenAI will raise tech and Gulf funding rounds before IPO
“Well, we have, we definitely have, we'll have this round, which is going to be the tech giants round. Then we'll have the Gulf state round number one, the Gulf state round number two, and then IPO is probably what, the way it will play out.”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 21:56 OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie
Feb 23, 2026 neutral
Insight
Levie: Nvidia relies on chip supply, not equity, to influence OpenAI
“They don't need to own a percentage of open AI. Like that's like, they need to sell chips to open AI. And so really they just need to ensure that they've got a very strong, you know, relationship that is, is sort of very sturdy and supporting the broad tailwin…”
Aaron Levie Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 20:30 OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levie: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini will grow inference 100x in 5 years
“In five years from now, both, they will be, you know, a hundred times bigger in inference. Anthropic will be a hundred times bigger in inference. Gemini will be a hundred times bigger in inference and so on.”
Aaron Levie Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 11:02 OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie
Feb 23, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI is charging a $60 CPM for conversational advertising
“One of the interesting things about open AI is advertising. Now they've taken a lot of flack for it, maybe with good reason, but one of the interesting things about it is it's so high touch and that's why they're charging like a 60 dollars CPM, which is insane…”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 13:10 OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Levie: OpenAI faces no fundraising pressure from cap table dynamics
“I just don't think that open AI has a challenge raising money. So I don't know that. I don't know that there's sort of some kind of pressure that can be exerted on them from the cap table side.”
Aaron Levie Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 19:55 OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie
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 2, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
OpenAI expands its AWS agreement by $100 billion over eight years
“OpenAI said it's expanding its existing thirty-eight billion dollar agreement with Amazon Web Services by one hundred billion over the next year, eight years.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 29:08 Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff
Mar 4, 2026 negative
Opinion
Sam Altman is positioning OpenAI as a peace broker for Pentagon contracts
“He's trying to position this as like, they are the peace broker here, right? Like that they are the ones who are going to sort of iron out these differences between anthropic and the U S government by cutting their own deal that paves the path. To sort of do a…”
M.G. Siegler Mar 4, 2026 ▶ 32:41 Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD
Mar 4, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Siegler: Amazon is investing $50B in OpenAI across two tranches
“Fifty billion dollars. Yes. It's over like two tranches. It sounds like, you know, 15 and then 35, but still fifty billion dollars that, that Amazon is investing”
M.G. Siegler Mar 4, 2026 ▶ 49:51 Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD
Mar 4, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Siegler: iPhone gives Apple a unique advantage in AI wearables
“Apple has this unique position where they have the iPhone in billions of pockets, and now they're going to have these devices that rely upon that as sort of, at least for the foreseeable future, as basically the, you know, the central processing unit of those …”
M.G. Siegler Mar 4, 2026 ▶ 39:36 Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD
Mar 4, 2026 negative
Opinion
Pentagon cannot easily replace Anthropic due to Palantir and Amazon integrations
“The fact that Palantir and then Amazon obviously, and a bunch of others have used Anthropic services, like maybe the government just wasn't savvy enough to know just how integrated Anthropic itself was and that they can't just, again, like we were talking abou…”
M.G. Siegler Mar 4, 2026 ▶ 19:18 Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD
Mar 6, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Horowitz: Sam Altman is attempting to broker Pentagon-Anthropic peace deal
“Some of the other frontier AI labs like XAI and OpenAI are already now willing to work on the classified side, and you know, Sam Altman is attempting to broker a piece, essentially, and create a deal that perhaps Anthropik could join as well.”
Michael Horowitz Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 38:11 Pentagon Insider: What's Next For Anthropic and The Department of War — With Michael Horowitz
Mar 9, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI burned $8B in 2025 and expects $57B burn in 2027
“Last year, the company burned eight billion dollars in cash. However, the company expects to burn twenty five billion this year and fifty seven billion next year. About thirty billion more than the total previously predicted.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 10:31 AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
Mar 9, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Roy: Probability of OpenAI hitting long-term revenue targets is below 50%
“There's a very clear story for it, but the probability, if you're assigning a probability of it happening, I don't think it's like above 50%. I think it's a reasonable probability, but I don't think it's like the, it would not be the expected outcome in my min…”
Ranjan Roy Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 9:10 AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
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 9, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Roy: AI ARR projections resemble unsustainable COVID-era Zoom hype
“I will say the last two months have been absolutely wild, but it's more, it's starting to feel like COVID era extrapolation of every single business that we talked about, that the whole world is gonna move towards like remote work only and zoom is gonna be wor…”
Ranjan Roy Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 4:43 AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
Mar 9, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: OpenAI reaching $284B in revenue by 2030 sounds impossible
“To go from where we are now to two hundred eighty four billion in 2030 and by goodness, I'm sure this clip will come out if they actually end up pulling it off. It sounds impossible to me and the numbers seem fake.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 7:53 AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
Mar 9, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Roy: OpenAI is scaling back resource allocation for shopping efforts
“The information had reporting this week that open AI is already looking to scale back its efforts or its resource allocation around its shopping efforts.”
Ranjan Roy Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 11:20 AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
Mar 9, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI surpassed $25B in annualized revenue
“OpenAI topped, topped, twenty-five billion in annualized revenue at the end of last month. That's a 17% increase from the 21.4 billion in annualized revenue the company was generating at the end of the year.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 2:16 AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
Mar 9, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Huang says Nvidia's investment in OpenAI might be its last
“Jensen Wong said the thirty billion dollars that he and NVIDIA invested in OpenAI might be the last. Why? Is it because he doesn't trust Sam Altman, or is it because, you know, he doesn't believe in the technology? No. He says the reason for that is because th…”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 16:04 AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
Mar 9, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: OpenAI will be the fastest-growing company ever
“Opening eyes is going to be the fastest growing company ever, so you probably do want a stake of that if you're a company with the means to invest, and Amazon certainly had the money to do it.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 15:40 AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
Mar 9, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI projects revenue reaching $284 billion by 2030
“They expect to be thirty billion in revenue this year, sixty two billion in revenue next year. A hundred and thirteen billion in 2028, one hundred eighty four billion in 2029, and buckle your seatbelt for this one, two hundred and eighty four billion in 2030.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 7:28 AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Moore: Sora Retains 3 Million Daily Active Users
“So they still have Three million DAOs, and it's actually, you know, slightly climbing over time.”
Olivia Moore Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 49:11 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
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 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 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Founders trying cheaper audio models consistently return to ElevenLabs for quality
“11 Labs is a great example because I think you would imagine that OpenAI and others would have Built their own best in class audio models, but they just had such a compelling head start to the point that, like, the models are amazing. I will talk to founders w…”
Olivia Moore Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 13:18 AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
Mar 16, 2026 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Meta delays flagship AI model after failing to outperform Gemini 2.5
“Meta's new foundational AI model, which the company has been working on for months, has fallen short on the performance leading AI models the performance of leading AI models from rivals like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropik. On internal testing, it is now delaye…”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 50:12 AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
Mar 18, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2029
Sorkin: SpaceX IPO Will Likely Outpace OpenAI in Valuation
“Oh, I imagine it does. I mean, I, if we're talking, I think the numbers now, 1.75 trillion dollars with a T. I think right now OpenAI isn't, doesn't start with a T yet, but maybe.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Mar 18, 2026 ▶ 59:35 Are We Screwed If AI Works? — With Andrew Ross Sorkin
Mar 23, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Roy: OpenAI's enterprise desktop strategy is purely reactive to Anthropic
“If that's the core part of what OpenAI is trying to do, again, like, everything is reactive right now. As you said, Claude has a good desktop app that combines multiple platforms into one and makes it more usable. So then they're gonna do that. Claude, we star…”
Ranjan Roy Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 21:38 OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
Mar 23, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Anthropic captures 73% of first-time enterprise AI spend, per Ramp
“Anthropic is now capturing over 73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first time. 73%. Just 10 weeks ago, the split with OpenAI was fifty-fifty, and it was sixty-forty in OpenAI's favor as recently as December.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 25:56 OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
Mar 23, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Roy: Ramp data skews toward startups, not the aggregate broader economy
“Their data is going to be heavily skewed in whatever the coolest new, so it'll show momentum, but, like, in terms of showing actual, like, aggregate impact in the economy, most large companies are not using ramp, like, I can't imagine especially more kind of, …”
Ranjan Roy Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 27:36 OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
Mar 23, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Consumer AI market is failing to materialize
“Large language models, the stuff we're seeing with agentic stuff is an enterprise thing, and it's a very valuable enterprise thing, but we're certainly not seeing the consumer market materialize. And that's where you're seeing this shift from OpenAI.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 7:40 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
Mar 23, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Microsoft may sue OpenAI over Amazon investment, Reuters reports
“So there's reporting from Reuters that Microsoft may sue OpenAI over their fifty billion dollar investment from Amazon, and because it could violate the exclusive cloud agreement that they had they had set a number of years ago that, like, all OpenAI products …”
Ranjan Roy Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 11:08 OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
Mar 23, 2026 negative
Opinion
Roy: Consumer AI is OpenAI's only true path to success
“The one lane I think they still truly have a path to success is consumer. And is it because of Google? Is it because they're just looking at Anthropic and investors are telling them that that's what's more attractive right now? To me, this isn't the bet that t…”
Ranjan Roy Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 3:19 OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
Mar 23, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: OpenAI's cavalier data past will hurt its enterprise shift
“They kind of leaned into that, like, break the rules, no holds barred mentality for progress. And I think that's gonna hurt them in terms of trying to actually make this shift.”
Ranjan Roy Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 5:50 OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
Mar 25, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Yen: Opting out of AI training does not prevent data collection indefinitely
“Even if they don't use it for training, they can still store it for a long time, actually forever. They can still hand it over to a government under a subpoena. They could leak it if they were hacked in the future. So just because you've opted out of training …”
Andy Yen Mar 25, 2026 ▶ 1:13 Is AI A Privacy Disaster? And How To Fight Back. — With Andy Yen
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Brockman: OpenAI Is Unifying Agentic Interaction Harnesses Into a Single Super App
“All of that was something that we had multiple implementations of, or slightly different, and we're converging it. We're going to have one version of that, and almost end up with this AI layer that can be pointed at specific applications in a very thin way, so…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 13:35 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Brockman: We Are Currently 70% to 80% of the Way to AGI
“I think that I'd say I'm, Basically, like, 70, 80% there, so I think we're quite close.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 37:18 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brockman: OpenAI Lacks Enough Compute to Fund Its Top Priorities
“And when we look at the compute we have, we are not even gonna have enough compute to fund those two things.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 3:36 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brockman: New 'Spud' Base Model Incorporates Two Years of OpenAI Research
“So I think of SPUD as a new base, as a new pre-train, and that we have had this I, I'd say it's like we have maybe two years worth of research that is coming to fruition in this model.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 24:18 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brockman: Competitors Scrambled Too Late for Compute When None Remained Available
“I think that what we have seen is that for other players, that they kind of realized that probably late last year and started scrambling to see what compute is available, and there really wasn't any”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 59:52 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Brockman: OpenAI Will Expand Codex for General Knowledge Work Use
“We're going to make the Codex app just so much more usable for general knowledge work, because it already, what we've seen within OpenAI is all this organic adoption of people using it for that. So that'll be the first step, and there are many to come.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 16:39 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brockman: Late 2025 Models Boosted AI Task Completion from 20% to 80%
“So new model races really went from the AI being able to do like, 20% of your tasks to like, 80%.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 38:45 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Brockman: OpenAI Abilene Supercomputer Annually Uses Water Equivalent to One Household
“If you actually look at our Abilene facility, which is one of, if not the biggest supercomputers in the world, the amount of water it uses Is the same as a household over the course of a year, right? So it's really negligible water use.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 1:06:29 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Brockman: Speech-to-speech interface shares OpenAI's core model architecture
“Having a great speech to speech interface. That is something that also is going to make this technology very usable and very useful, but it's not a different branch of the tech tree. It's all kind of one model. And we just sort of tweak that in slightly differ…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 5:43 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026
Insight
Brockman: AI Progress Now Requires Real-World Feedback Over Benchmark Testing
“And that we're moving out of testing on benchmarks and sort of these almost cerebral demonstrations of capability to it actually being the case that for us to develop it further, we need to see it in the real world and get feedback from how people are using it…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 2:14 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 neutral
Insight
Brockman: AI Scaling Now Balances Raw Intelligence With Inference Costs
“We used to really just focus on the raw pre-training capability, but not think as much about the inference ability. And that's been a big change over the past 24 months to realize that it's a balance between You can have this model that has all those great pro…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 52:52 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026
Disclosure
Brockman: OpenAI's Top Priorities Are Personal Assistants and Problem-Solving Agents
“And for us, it's very clear that they're, the stack rank includes two things at the top. One is the personal assistant. The other is the AI that can go and solve hard problems for you.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 3:25 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brockman: AGI Capable of Any Computer Task Will Arrive Within Years
“I think it's extremely clear that we are going to have AGI within the next couple years in a way that is still going to be jagged, but that the floor of task will just be almost for any intellectual task of how you use your computer. The AI will be able to do …”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 37:25 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Brockman: OpenAI Commits to Funding Power Infrastructure to Protect Local Prices
“On power, we have a commitment that we are going to pay our own way to not drive up energy prices for people.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 1:06:54 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brockman: Top AI Models Will Face Compute-Driven Outages Within Six Months
“Six months from now, I think that everyone will feel it. And I think that we will all feel the pain of there's an awesome model. And there's just no availability because there's not enough compute.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 1:01:16 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brockman: Everyone in AI Will Face Severe Compute Shortages This Year
“And I think that we will see even this year, how everyone who is participating is going to be compute strapped.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 59:39 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 positive
Insight
Brockman: Treat AI Compute as a Revenue Center Like Hiring Salespeople
“You can think of compute not as a cost center, but as a revenue center. Think of it a little bit like hiring salespeople. How many salespeople do you want to hire? As long as you can sell your product, as long as you have a scalable way to sell that product, t…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 55:32 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 neutral
Insight
Brockman: Human Operators Hold Strict Accountability When Autonomous AI Agents Fail
“If you're Trying to build a website and your agent messes it up and your user is affected. It's not really the agent's fault. It's your fault. And so you need to care. And I think that for people to use these tools, right, you need to realize that human agency…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 44:53 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026
Disclosure
Brockman Focused Primarily on OpenAI GPU Infrastructure Over Past 18 Months
“And that's where I've actually been spending most of my efforts over the past. 18 months has been really focused on our. GPU infrastructure on supporting the teams that do all of the training frameworks to scale up at these big runs”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 23:49 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brockman: New Models Will Only Feel Different in Intelligence-Bottlenecked Domains
“I think that it will be A similar story where you, when you release it, there will be people who will try it and be like, this is a night and day different than anything I've seen. And then there will be some applications where we weren't necessarily intellige…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 26:43 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Brockman: OpenAI Will Incrementally Ship Super App Vision Over Next Months
“We're taking incremental steps to get there over the next couple months. We should have shipped the complete vision of what we're talking about here, but it's gonna come in pieces”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 15:56 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Insight
Brockman: Massive Scale AI Training Requires Concentrated Compute Clusters
“Well, because the, there's multiple reasons but one is that even as the balance of how much inference versus training changes, that you cannot get massive scale training Through any other way besides this concentration of compute on one problem.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 53:37 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Brockman: OpenAI Has Invested Heavily to Defend Against Prompt Injections
“If you're going to have an AI that is very smart, very capable, hooked up to lots of tools, you want to make sure that it can't be subverted by someone giving it a weird instruction. And that's something that we've invested in quite a lot, and I think have rea…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 32:00 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026
Disclosure
Brockman: Most OpenAI Revenue Has Come From Consumer Subscriptions
“To date, most of our revenue has come from consumer subscriptions, and that will always be very important.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 57:22 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Brockman: Codex app functions as a general tool-using agent harness
“The Codex app today is something which is a, it's really two things in one. It's a general agent harness that can use tools, and it's also a agent that knows how to write software.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 16:15 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Insight
Brockman: Pre-Training Capability Multiplies Through the Entire AI Model Pipeline
“Every single step of the model production pipeline multiplies. And so you want to improve all of them. And the thing that we see is we prove the pre-training. It makes all the other steps much easier. And it makes sense because it's a model is able to learn fa…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 51:56 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026
Insight
Brockman: AI Progress Is Now About Execution Harnesses Over Raw Models
“And we talked about it a little bit in the case of the underlying models, but the thing that's really changed over the past couple of years has been that it's no longer just about the model. It's about the harness. It's about how does the model get context? Ho…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 13:12 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Brockman: OpenAI Continues Sora Research Program Specifically for Robotics Applications
“We are actually continuing the SOAR research program in the context of robotics, right, which I think is very clearly going to be a transformative application, which is still a little bit in the research phase”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 5:11 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026
Assertion Supported
Brockman: Major AI Compute Purchases Require 18 to 24 Month Lead Times
“These compute purchases You have to lock them in 18 months, sometimes 24 months, sometimes longer, In advance of them actually being delivered, which means you really need to project forward.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 57:08 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brockman: AI capabilities working today will be incredibly reliable within a year
“But it is all indicated by what's kind of working right now, certainly within a year, sometimes much sooner is going to be incredibly reliable.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 40:44 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Brockman: Sora Video Architecture Is a Separate Tech Branch From GPT
“The Sora models, which are incredible models, by the way, are a different branch of the tech tree than the core Reasoning GPT series. They're just built in a very different way, and to some extent we're really saying that pursuing both branches is very hard fo…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 4:50 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 negative
Opinion
Brockman: Codex usability for non-engineers remains quite low
“The Codex app itself was originally built for software engineers, and that it's almost like the current usability of it for non-software engineers is actually quite low, because there's a bunch of little things where, when you set things up, you run into some …”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 17:13 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 1, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brockman: OpenAI Reasoning Model Solved an Unsolved Physics Problem in 12 Hours
“We had this result recently where a physicist had been working on a problem for some time. He gave it to our model. 12 hours later, we have a solution, and he said this is the first time he's seen a model where he felt like he was thinking, that it felt like t…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 8:22 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brockman: OpenAI Automating Its Own Research Scientists' End-to-End Workflows
“And at a practical level, I think I would view it as ex, is taking the full end to end of what one of our research scientists does and be able to do that in Silicon.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 31:02 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Brockman: OpenAI Underinvested in Last-Mile Usability for Early Coding Models
“We always had the best numbers on different programming competitions, these very cerebral things, but the thing that we didn't invest in as much was that last mile of usability.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 19:06 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brockman: OpenAI Has Definitive Line of Sight to AGI in 2026
“And I think that we have definitively answered that question of it's, it is going to go to AGI. Like we see line of sight and that it is at this point, we have line of sight to these much better models that are coming this year.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 7:44 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 6, 2026 negative
Opinion
Kantrowitz: TBPN acquisition won't solve OpenAI's public perception issues among non-users
“I just think it's the wrong solution because if you look at the YouGov polling and we've talked about it on this show, Who are the people that do not like AI? The most negative group about AI are people who have not used it or seen anyone else use it. They're …”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 6, 2026 ▶ 13:00 OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure
Apr 6, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's 'no side quests' rule was strictly about compute constraints
“I think a lazy argument that, that, yeah, a lazy argument that buying TBPN is a side quest, which it invariably is, but I think it misunderstands this no side quest directive, which was all about compute. You don't want to waste compute on SideQuest.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 6, 2026 ▶ 18:36 OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure
Apr 6, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Acquired podcast TBPN reports to OpenAI chief lobbyist Chris Lehane
“They're also reporting into Chris Lehane, who's the company's chief lobbyist.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 6, 2026 ▶ 9:15 OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure
Apr 6, 2026 negative
Opinion
Hoffman: OpenAI's TBPN acquisition was driven entirely by Sam Altman's preference
“This is just a thing Sam wanted to do. It seems to me that the simplest solution is, is the easiest one. And, you know, they are going to have to you know, follow a much broader public discourse strategy to convince the huge swaths of the public that really ju…”
Liz Hoffman Apr 6, 2026 ▶ 13:59 OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure
Apr 6, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI moves commercial duties from Brad Lightcap to Denise Dresser
“OpenAI is making other changes to executive team, to its executive team, handing former Slack executive and revenue chief Denise Dresser commercial responsibilities that were previously the purview of operating chief Brad Lightcap. Lightcap will now focus on s…”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 6, 2026 ▶ 17:37 OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure
Apr 7, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Bose: Asana uses OpenAI for chat, but Anthropic for AI Teammates
“We are not using OpenAI right now for AI teammates, but we are using it in other parts of Asana AI where those models have Been proven to be either cost efficient or highly performant for those use cases within our AI studio capabilities or street AI chat capa…”
Arnab Bose Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 30:19 Should Software Companies Embrace AI or fight it? — With Asana Chief Product Officer Arnab Bose
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Bose: Asana chose Anthropic's Claude Opus model for AI Teammates
“Across Asana AI, we use both OpenAI and Anthropic models, in particular for the AI teammates launched. We have chosen Anthropic's Opus through .6 model and that's what we're launching with right now.”
Arnab Bose Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 26:53 Should Software Companies Embrace AI or fight it? — With Asana Chief Product Officer Arnab Bose
Apr 8, 2026 neutral
Insight
Levie: AI Labs Will Inevitably Compete Head-to-Head Across All Use Cases
“You know, I think it's, to some extent, it was sort of an inevitable outcome because if you think about it, like if you have this AI model that is super intelligence packed into a model, it eventually has to converge on On, you know, all of this, all the same …”
Aaron Levie Apr 8, 2026 ▶ 0:41 OpenAI vs. Anthropic's Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents — With Aaron Levie
Apr 10, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar stopped reporting directly to Sam Altman in 2025
“Fryer stopped reporting directly to Altman in August last year, and instead began reporting to Fiji Simo, who had joined as head of OpenAI's applications business”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 10, 2026 ▶ 11:25 More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
Apr 10, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Anthropic will beat OpenAI to launching a fully integrated agentic super app
“I, right now I would bet honestly on Anthropic doing it first, doing it better. But it really comes down to the timing of when open AI gets this super app out there.”
M.G. Siegler Apr 10, 2026 ▶ 27:31 More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
Apr 10, 2026 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
MG Siegler predicts OpenAI and Anthropic will not IPO in 2026
“I actually predict as one of my year end predictions, I predicted that neither OpenAI nor Anthropic will go public in 20, 26.”
M.G. Siegler Apr 10, 2026 ▶ 4:08 More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
Apr 10, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Fidji Simo could eventually replace Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO
“That's sort of why I've always Sort of had in the back of my head that I would not be shocked if Fiji Simo is eventually sort of overall CEO and they just sort of have Sam Altman there because he's a vital still obviously from a fundraise perspective from so…”
M.G. Siegler Apr 10, 2026 ▶ 12:36 More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
Apr 10, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
OpenAI and Anthropic must IPO eventually after tapping out private capital
“But the reality is like, given these numbers, open AI is going to need to go public. Like they need the capital and itthropic as well. Like they basically have tapped into all of the possible you know, private capital.”
M.G. Siegler Apr 10, 2026 ▶ 36:02 More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
Apr 10, 2026 bearish
Assertion Supported
OpenAI is struggling to raise debt for data centers due to unprofitability
“Because remember again, like open AI in particulars had a really hard time. And this was in some of the reporting today as well, like with regard to trying to build their own data centers, because they just, They don't have profits. Like what, how are they, yo…”
M.G. Siegler Apr 10, 2026 ▶ 37:37 More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
Apr 10, 2026 bearish
Opinion
OpenAI's Codex enterprise business remains significantly smaller than Anthropic's Claude Code
“It seems like it's a fast growing business codex for them, but it's still not nearly, you know, as big as cloud code is.”
M.G. Siegler Apr 10, 2026 ▶ 20:20 More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
Apr 10, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Anthropic reached $19 billion annualized revenue, rapidly closing gap with OpenAI
“Late last year, Anthropic was doing, looks like, about ten billion dollars in annualized revenue, and OpenAI was over Twenty billion. But now, Anthropic has closed that. They're at nineteen billion in annualized revenue, while OpenAI, or the latest report, has…”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 10, 2026 ▶ 16:25 More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
Apr 13, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Roy: OpenAI and Anthropic are in a death race to IPO first
“Right now, open AI and Anthropic are in like a death race to who can get out first in terms of their IPO.”
Ranjan Roy Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 8:58 Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta
Apr 13, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Roy: Anthropic and OpenAI model codenames are Mythos and Spud
“While Anthropik's codename for their kind of like incredible model is Mythos, OpenAI's codename internally for their next model is Spud.”
Ranjan Roy Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 28:14 Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta
Apr 13, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: OpenAI and Anthropic Are Shifting to Proprietary Super Apps
“Over the past three or four months, both of them have gravitated toward building a super app. Something that uses the most advanced intelligence to control your computer, that will, to help you get things done, to in some cases even build new software for you”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 18:55 Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta
Apr 13, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: AI labs will eventually have to choose between apps and APIs
“I think you will eventually have to make a bet on what your business is. It's very tough to sustain both for a while, and who do you want to have the best models in that case?”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 26:30 Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta
Apr 15, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Michael: Anthropic was first to aggressively pitch US government AI services
“They were the first to aggressively try to provide service to the government after the Biden administration's executive order about AI because they were, and again, you see this in the marketplace too, OpenAI was more focused on the consumer, with ChatGPT and …”
Emil Michael Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 30:01 The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
Apr 20, 2026 positive
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Combining Bret Taylor's Sierra and OpenAI makes perfect sense
“And by the way, Brett Taylor, a combination of Sierra and open AI would make so much sense, especially as open AI goes after goes after enterprises. It would be a perfect match.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 20, 2026 ▶ 46:09 Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot
Apr 20, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: Expect more leaks questioning OpenAI's leadership ahead of an IPO
“I think you're going to be seeing more of these kind of leaks at some point, because there has to be investors that there's a lot of money in it. There's a lot of kind of lack of clear strategy still, even after they're supposed to kind of bring focus to the c…”
Ranjan Roy Apr 20, 2026 ▶ 44:59 Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot
Apr 20, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Microsoft Is Participating in Anthropic's Project Glasswing
“Microsoft's in this in this you know, Project Glass Wing. They're big investors in OpenAI.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 20, 2026 ▶ 34:40 Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot
Apr 20, 2026 positive
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Anthropic is currently the leader in foundational AI models
“Who is right now? I would say the leader in foundational models at Santhropic.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 20, 2026 ▶ 7:52 Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot
Apr 20, 2026 negative
Opinion
Roy: OpenAI is merely chasing and following Anthropic's enterprise strategy
“They are chasing Anthropic strategically. They're going after Enterprise, again, like Mythos gets released, and then Five Four Cyber gets released right after. It's like everything they're doing is right after Anthropic and following them”
Ranjan Roy Apr 20, 2026 ▶ 48:53 Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot
Apr 23, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Brockman: OpenAI resells compute at positive operating margins amid outsized demand
“We rent, build, buy, compute, and we resell it with some positive margin, and as long as it's, you know, positive operating margin, and as long as there's scalable demand for intelligence, which I think is true as long as there's problems to solve, like, no on…”
Greg Brockman Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 14:23 OpenAI President Greg Brockman on GPT-5.5 “Spud,” AI Model Moats, and Cybersecurity Risks
Apr 23, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brockman: Massive infrastructure bets are still insufficient to prevent compute scarcity
“Still not enough. We're gonna feel the scarcity. We're gonna feel it. We're feeling it already. You can sense it right now on people who are trying to use these agents and just simply cannot, you know, hitting the rate limits. So we're working on behalf of our…”
Greg Brockman Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 25:03 OpenAI President Greg Brockman on GPT-5.5 “Spud,” AI Model Moats, and Cybersecurity Risks
Apr 23, 2026 positive
Opinion
Brockman: Prompt engineering may become more vibrant rather than dying
“Which I actually think the prompt Engineering, in some ways, may be even more vibrant than before.”
Greg Brockman Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 8:52 OpenAI President Greg Brockman on GPT-5.5 “Spud,” AI Model Moats, and Cybersecurity Risks
Apr 23, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Brockman: OpenAI cuts intelligence prices tenfold to hundredfold year-over-year
“We have dropped prices on the same level of intelligence year over year, sometimes by literally a factor of a hundred, right? It's like at least in order of magnitude year over year, sometimes literally a hundred.”
Greg Brockman Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 13:07 OpenAI President Greg Brockman on GPT-5.5 “Spud,” AI Model Moats, and Cybersecurity Risks
Apr 23, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Brockman: OpenAI shifted focus from benchmark scores to real-world applications
“One thing that changed for us over the past 12, you know, 18 months, something like that, is that we used to really just be focused on, let's be, let's improve on the benchmarks, let's make these models more cerebr, cerebrally capable, But we now are really fo…”
Greg Brockman Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 4:24 OpenAI President Greg Brockman on GPT-5.5 “Spud,” AI Model Moats, and Cybersecurity Risks
Apr 23, 2026 bullish
Insight
Brockman: Workers will become overseers managing fleets of AI agents
“The place we're going is one where you as A person doing work that you are the overseer. You are the CEO of almost this autonomous corporation, or, you know, of this fleet of agents perhaps is more, is, is the way to say it, and that they are operating accordi…”
Greg Brockman Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 5:04 OpenAI President Greg Brockman on GPT-5.5 “Spud,” AI Model Moats, and Cybersecurity Risks
Apr 23, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brockman: GPT-5.5 can now autonomously operate computers and web browsers
“The fact that it's now really crossed the threshold of usefulness for general kinds of applications, and so it's much better at creating slides, spreadsheets, much better at computer use, using your browser, being able to kind of click through applications tha…”
Greg Brockman Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 1:26 OpenAI President Greg Brockman on GPT-5.5 “Spud,” AI Model Moats, and Cybersecurity Risks
Apr 27, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Images 2.0 threatens the future of professional graphic designers
“This was the first one that actually had me worrying about the future of graphic designers. It's that good. I'm not even kidding.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 34:28 Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI gave all Nvidia employees access to GPT-5.5
“They also did something interesting, which is that they gave access to GPT, 5.5, to the entire company of NVIDIA.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 21:57 Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade
Apr 29, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Cuban: Sam Altman is 'all over the map' and it will backfire
“Sam is all over the map, and I think that'll backfire on him.”
Mark Cuban Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 33:57 Mark Cuban: AI Hype vs. Reality, OpenAI's Wasting $1 Trillion, Lebron vs. Jordan
Apr 29, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Cuban: AI companies will never see returns on trillion-dollar infrastructure spend
“They'll never get it. Yeah, they're just shitting away that money.”
Mark Cuban Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 26:39 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 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Alex Kantrowitz predicts OpenAI could face fines payable to nonprofit arm
“I mean, maybe there should, maybe there will be a fine to open AI because they'll have to end up paying that money to the nonprofit.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 4, 2026 ▶ 25:02 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 negative
Prediction Held up
Alex Kantrowitz predicts Elon Musk will fail to oust OpenAI leaders
“Now, I know Musk is trying to get Musk and Sam Altman, sorry, he's trying to get Sam Altman and Greg Brockman removed from the top of opening. I don't think that's going to happen.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 4, 2026 ▶ 25:41 OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
May 4, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ranjan Roy predicts AI development will shift to cheaper open models
“And I do think moving to a world where, let's say you use Anthropic and OpenAI to actually build, but then start to cost optimize towards cheaper models and maybe it's within their ecosystems. Maybe it's just an open free for all in terms of any model. I do th…”
Ranjan Roy May 4, 2026 ▶ 35:04 OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
May 4, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Elon Musk donated over $30 million to OpenAI for zero equity
“He gave 30 plus million dollars to found this thing. And he currently has like no share in it at all.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 4, 2026 ▶ 25:12 OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
May 4, 2026 negative
Opinion
Ranjan Roy says OpenAI pivoting from consumer AI is a mistake
“I don't think, when everyone is rushing towards the same thing, that for a company like OpenAI that has such a foothold in consumer, it's the right decision.”
Ranjan Roy May 4, 2026 ▶ 18:48 OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
May 5, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Microsoft has secured OpenAI IP rights through 2032
“And basically Microsoft has access to OpenAI's IP till 2032, and that is the state of the partnership today.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 5, 2026 ▶ 36:12 Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
May 5, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Neo-Cloud Providers Face Severe Risk Relying on OpenAI's Infrastructure Commitments
“The weakness in the whole story is your whole business is based off of OpenAI keeping this promise of building out the infrastructure. And last week in particular, when there was that Wall Street Journal report, which OpenAI pushed back on very strongly that l…”
Alex Kantrowitz May 5, 2026 ▶ 53:35 Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
May 5, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Siegler: Google's Full Stack Ownership Provides Massive Cost Advantages Over OpenAI
“Google's just overall owning of, again, that entire stack when it comes to the infrastructure is going to give them massive cost advantages over what OpenAI is going to be able to offer up at that steady state.”
M.G. Siegler May 5, 2026 ▶ 55:41 Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
May 5, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Siegler: OpenAI owes Microsoft rev share even on AWS and Google
“While Microsoft no longer has to pay revenue share back to open AI still has to pay it to Microsoft and they have to pay it even when they're using AWS or potentially Google in the future.”
M.G. Siegler May 5, 2026 ▶ 40:22 Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
May 5, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Siegler: OpenAI products must ship first on Azure under deal terms
“Microsoft remains open as primary cloud partner. And open AI products will ship first on Azure, unless Microsoft cannot and chooses not to support the necessary capabilities.”
M.G. Siegler May 5, 2026 ▶ 42:13 Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
May 5, 2026 positive
Prediction Held up
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Models Are Coming to Google Cloud Platform Soon
“And I anticipate, and you know, given my conversations that I've had with Thomas Curry and the head of Google cloud platform, that it will come to Google fairly soon as well. He wants it there.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 5, 2026 ▶ 36:02 Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
May 7, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2031
Kantrowitz: Anthropic and OpenAI will both have trillion-dollar IPOs
“We're looking at, they're both, Anthropik and OpenAI are both gonna have trillion dollar IPOs, and we'll have many large companies, I think, that will follow them in the generative AI world.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 7, 2026 ▶ 8:51 AI Agents: Mirage Or Real Revolution? — With Dmitry Shevelenko
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 11, 2026 bullish
Prediction Held up
SpaceX will hold its initial public offering before OpenAI and Anthropic
“SpaceX will be the one that IPO is first out of this. I think we could both agree there.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 11, 2026 ▶ 27:19 The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?
May 11, 2026 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Satya Nadella will throw OpenAI under the bus during lawsuit testimony
“I think Satya is going to fully throw open AI under the bus.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 11, 2026 ▶ 43:37 The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?
May 11, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Leasing compute to Anthropic signals xAI surrender in foundation model race
“This is effectively giving up. It's saying, you know, it doesn't know how to effectively use this compute capacity to train models, or if it did, it wouldn't be worth the expense because it would still be behind OpenAI. And anthropic, and so therefore it's now…”
Alex Kantrowitz May 11, 2026 ▶ 4:46 The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?
May 18, 2026 bearish
Assertion Partly supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's private valuation stalled over eight months while Anthropic tripled
“Open AI's valuation hasn't changed in eight months over the private markets while Anthropix has gone up three X.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 18, 2026 ▶ 15:17 Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank
May 18, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Court texts show Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott offered to join OpenAI board
“This is from the court documents in a text thread. Where Kevin Scott is where all these folks, Kevin Scott, Satya, Sam are suggesting who should be on the OpenAI board in the future, and then Kevin Scott chimes in with this one. I can quit for six months and d…”
Alex Kantrowitz May 18, 2026 ▶ 23:20 Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank
May 18, 2026 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Kantrowitz: Google Cloud Will Sell OpenAI Models Within Months
“I think Google Cloud is going to start selling open AI models within the next couple of months based off of, you know, just kind of a hunch, right? So they're going to be the infrastructure layer that enables all three big models.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 18, 2026 ▶ 21:52 Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank
May 18, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Google sits as best of Big Tech, worst of AI labs
“Where they are is, okay, best of big tech, worst of the AI labs. Just going to say that's probably where they sit right now.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 18, 2026 ▶ 42:28 Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank
May 18, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Microsoft squandered its massive OpenAI competitive advantage
“It's got a 27% stake in OpenAI, and otherwise it's completely squandered this advantage.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 18, 2026 ▶ 9:45 Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank
May 18, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Altman believes AI-native products will beat Google's bolt-on approach
“Basically there's a difference between products that are AI native and products that you bolt AI onto. And I believe that AI native products will win. And therefore Google bolting AI onto its existing products will lose.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 18, 2026 ▶ 14:03 Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank
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 bullish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI generated $5.7B in Q1 revenue, beating Anthropic by $1B
“OpenAI generated about 5.7 billion in revenue in Q-one. Nearly one billion more than archrival Anthropic generated in the same period.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 25, 2026 ▶ 1:57 Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
May 25, 2026 bearish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI reported a -122% adjusted operating margin in Q1
“OpenAI told investors that its adjusted operating income margin was -122% in the first quarter. That means for every dollar of revenue the company generated, it lost one dollar and 22 cents, even after excluding some large items such as stock based compensatio…”
Alex Kantrowitz May 25, 2026 ▶ 2:08 Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
May 25, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: OpenAI and Anthropic are gearing up to file for IPOs
“OpenAI and Anthropic as both gear up towards filing for IPOs. Maybe even this year we could potentially even see the paperwork for OpenAI come through as you and I record today, Ranjan.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 25, 2026 ▶ 1:23 Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
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
May 25, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's IPO push is driven by Anthropic's rapid revenue growth
“I think it is entirely a result of Anthropik's success. So you have a couple of curves that are running in parallel right now. So you have OpenAI, which made more money than Anthropik, but Anthropik's revenue and user growth, it seems like has, well, revenue i…”
Alex Kantrowitz May 25, 2026 ▶ 7:53 Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
May 25, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Roy: Anthropic's projected $10.9B Q2 revenue is overly ambitious
“There's been a lot of growth, but we all know Codex show a five point show up from open AI recently. I've seen endless chatter around people actually switching over from anthropic. So the idea that it's going to be a straight line or not even straight line, I'…”
Ranjan Roy May 25, 2026 ▶ 14:59 Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
May 26, 2026 positive
Insight
NVIDIA sees the best agent orchestration results using Claude Opus and GPT
“We've seen some of the best results with using either Opus from Anthropic or GPT for OpenAI for the orchestrator.”
Adel El Hallak May 26, 2026 ▶ 3:29 The Right Way To Build AI Agents — With NVIDIA's Adel El Hallak and ServiceNow's Joe Davis
May 27, 2026 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Costolo: OpenAI commitments exceed $1T without revenue to back them
“When you go and run on the numbers, it adds up to crazy over a trillion dollars worth of commitments that don't have the, you know, and you don't see the revenue model or growth yet to back it up.”
Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 ▶ 13:53 Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
May 27, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Costolo: OpenAI will pop on IPO day but face intense quarterly scrutiny
“It will still do really, really well on day one because people are going to be like, it's the next stigma. It's the next Cerebrus. I can't, I, you know, I haven't been able to buy secondary before I want to be an investor. You have to own one of these things, …”
Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 ▶ 15:00 Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
May 27, 2026
Insight
Costolo: First mega-cap IPOs will soak up limited institutional liquidity
“Again, another, another advantage to going first and, or going second and not going third is there's not infinite capital out there. You're going to want to be in, you know, one or two of these things, and then probably, probably not all three Although we'll s…”
Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 ▶ 23:18 Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
May 27, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Costolo: Mega-cap IPO distributions will reignite early-stage VC fundraising
“You've got all these university endowments and, Venture LPs, et cetera, that haven't had their big liquidity events that are now gonna be, you know, flush with distributions of SpaceX and Anthropic and OpenAI that are gonna be able to turn around and pour a bu…”
Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 ▶ 24:54 Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
May 27, 2026 positive
Opinion
Costolo: Anthropic would benefit greatly from IPOing before OpenAI
“I think it would be great. I think it would be great for Anthropic if they can go first.”
Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 ▶ 21:31 Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
Jun 2, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Microsoft and Oracle Pipelines Heavily Depend on OpenAI Commitments
“Microsoft had four, has 49% Of its 62, six hundred twenty seven billion future backlog tied to OpenAI. Oracle is 54% of its five hundred and fifty three billion pipeline, depending on OpenAI alone.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 2, 2026 ▶ 33:47 Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading
Jun 2, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Roy: OpenAI Raised $122B Reaching an $852B Valuation
“OpenAI had even raised, what was it, a 120, a 122. One 22. One 22. And only got to 852 post-money”
Ranjan Roy Jun 2, 2026 ▶ 43:47 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 8, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Siegler: OpenAI Faces Listing Trouble if Anthropic IPOs First
“If OpenAI goes out, if Anthropic goes out before OpenAI does, OpenAI is in a lot of trouble from a public listing perspective, just because we even talked about this when it was still just the notion that they would have a better bottom line, right? Like that …”
M.G. Siegler Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 59:53 Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
Jun 8, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Siegler: Google's Disparate Teams Slow Its AI Super-App Development
“It's basically Google's immense size and capabilities become a hindrance in, in the building out of this, right? Because like, imagine that they feel like they have to answer for open AI super app comes, chat GPT super app coming out. And it has, you know, fro…”
M.G. Siegler Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 38:52 Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
Jun 8, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Google has fallen behind OpenAI and Anthropic in frontier models
“First of all, they didn't ship the Gemini the latest edition of Gemini pro. So if you think about foundational models, they have fallen behind open AI and anthropic with mythos in 5.5, as far as we can tell.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 5:34 Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
Jun 8, 2026
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Microsoft holds rights to all OpenAI intellectual property through 2032
“He has all their IP till 2032, so.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 53:03 Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
Jun 15, 2026 bullish
Prediction Held up
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Will Cut Prices to Leverage Infrastructure Scale Against Anthropic
“I think they will. I mean, I think that there's, if you think about it strategically, right? Anthropic has been winning. It's also, it's like part of this is about lifetime value, right? Anthropic has been winning over a lot of these enterprise customers with …”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 15, 2026 ▶ 44:14 SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
Jun 15, 2026 bearish
Opinion
An AI price war risks OpenAI and Anthropic's premium luxury positioning
“So I think this is, like, if them going aggressively to Anthropic and trying to undercut them, I think could be short-term beneficial for them, but I think long-term just dramatically hurts them and Anthropic, because right now they are premium products.”
Ranjan Roy Jun 15, 2026 ▶ 42:33 SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
Jun 15, 2026 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Roy: Anthropic and OpenAI now explicitly retain enterprise data for 30 days
“Enterprise agreements, the anthropic and open AI, as well as everyone else, like claim no data retention. Now they're just explicitly saying that they're going to for 30 days and like, that's a huge deal.”
Ranjan Roy Jun 15, 2026 ▶ 28:17 SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
Jun 15, 2026 neutral
What-if
Kantrowitz: SpaceX AI IPO Took Investor Money Otherwise Earmarked for OpenAI and Anthropic
“I don't know if it would have been that level of cash if the AI side of this wasn't included. So I think that, that money would have otherwise gone to OpenAI and Anthropic.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 15, 2026 ▶ 8:21 SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
Jun 17, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Anthropic Has Surpassed OpenAI In Enterprise Adoption At 41% Vs 39.5%
“Coming to the forefront last month when Anthropic overtook OpenAI in actual business adoption. So now Anthropic sits at about 41% of US firms are using Anthropic. 39.5% of firms are using OpenAI. Anthropic is still growing. OpenAI is relatively flat.”
Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 11:40 AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
Jun 17, 2026 negative
Opinion
OpenAI And Anthropic Are Incentivized To Maximize Enterprise Token Spending
“Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic have built products that allow firms to actually manage their token spend. Nor have they built products that incentivize firms to keep those costs under control. If anything, open and anthropic are incentivized to have firms spend …”
Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 13:21 AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
Jun 17, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
DeepSeek's Enterprise Growth Spike Unlikely To Withstand Rival Price Cuts
“Only about .4% of businesses are using it. Again, that's up from .1. So, Forex increase, but it's extremely small, and I think it's not going to be very durable, given that OpenAI and Anthropic are well positioned to respond to that with some price cuts.”
Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 35:39 AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
Jun 17, 2026 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Token Usage Drives 80% Of OpenAI And Anthropic Enterprise Revenue
“80% of their revenue from businesses is token based. It's not subscriptions. It's tokens.”
Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 36:20 AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
Jun 17, 2026 neutral
Insight
Product Experience Drives Enterprise AI Retention Over Raw Model Quality
“Better models don't necessarily create the switching for employees and users. It's about the product experience around those models.”
Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 7:15 AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
Jun 17, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Google Is Best Positioned To Take Enterprise AI Share From OpenAI
“I think Google's really the best positioned and relatively underrated in these kinds of conversations to take market share away from open ad and anthropic.”
Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 37:06 AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
Jun 22, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: Jony Ive and OpenAI's hardware collaboration may use a pin form-factor
“I mean, we humane tried with the pin. I still think maybe some kind of pin is going to be around Johnny Ives pin at open AI.”
Ranjan Roy Jun 22, 2026 ▶ 7:58 Are AI Glasses Over? + Big Technology AI Summit Audience Questions
Jun 22, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: AI companies will aggressively pivot from brand advertising to direct response
“And obviously they always come out with the high touch brand and then they will like get you on the direct response, like super targeted stuff. Once they realize they can't make money on brand.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 22, 2026 ▶ 19:20 Are AI Glasses Over? + Big Technology AI Summit Audience Questions
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 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Kantrowitz: OpenAI and Anthropic head toward trillion-dollar IPOs within next year
“We have open AI and Anthropic. Now they're going to do fifty billion dollars in revenue this year. They're both headed towards trillion dollar IPOs within the next year.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 5:46 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Brockman: OpenAI has invested in custom chip program for years
“For example, we've been investing in our own chip program now for multiple years and super exciting progress. Like, you know, we'll we'll we'll have more to announce. I actually pretty soon.”
Greg Brockman Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 3:31:39 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Brockman: Frontier AI models are solving unsolved math and physics problems
“These models are now solving unsolved math problems and physics problems, right? Really helping people be able to achieve things they couldn't otherwise.”
Greg Brockman Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 3:07:59 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2027
Brockman: Today's frontier AI intelligence will be much cheaper within a year
“I think the thing you should anticipate is that over a year long time horizon to get to today's level of intelligence that feels very premier, it's going to be much cheaper. But there's going to be a new thing that is going to be so much better.”
Greg Brockman Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 3:35:44 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 bullish
Opinion
Brockman: AI scaling laws show no wall in sight
“70 years of people, maybe 80 years now of people saying this stuff is never going to work, never going to scale, going to hit the wall, hasn't hit the wall yet. There's still no wall in sight.”
Greg Brockman Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 3:25:48 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stamos: Frontier AI matched top human bug finders in 2025
“This Rubicon was crossed well last year with the Opus four series with the GPT five series. That is when the models became better or as good or better than the best human bug finders and not just as good as the best Bug finders.”
Alex Stamos Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 2:06:08 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Gardizi: OpenAI uses alternative chips and develops in-house silicon to diversify
“They're using chips from other companies. Cerebris is a good example, and they have their own in-house chip. So I think maybe publicly they're doing some big announcements with NVIDIA, and I believe it's five gigawatts they have to deploy in the next couple of…”
Anissa Gardizy Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 51:36 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
Jun 26, 2026 negative
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2028
Gardizi: OpenAI will not deploy 10 gigawatts in the next few years
“Even if you think of open AI, for example, announcing a 10 gigawatt project you know, we're not going to see 10 gigawatts in the next couple of years, or they're going to sort of spread out that bet.”
Anissa Gardizy Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 42:40 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Recently Raised $122 Billion
“OpenAI recently raised a hundred and twenty two billion. That's three or four times larger than the largest IPO, pre-SpaceX.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 4:45 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Brockman: Doctors use OpenAI's o3 model to diagnose long-unsolved medical cases
“Today we announced I we have in peer-reviewed literature people, doctors who are using O. Three. Remember O. Three? I was like forever ago now, right? It was like one of our earliest reasoning models using that to find diagnoses for People who I had no, no ans…”
Greg Brockman Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 3:16:05 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dolan: Frontier AI model labs are on the verge of a price war
“I think we're absolutely right on the precipice of that.”
Dallas Dolen Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 1:12:02 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brockman: OpenAI operates almost entirely on Slack rather than email
“Within OpenAI, we basically have the same level of penetration now and usage of Slack. Right. It's like everyone in opening eyes, like an entirely slack based company. We do not use email for the most part.”
Greg Brockman Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 3:11:06 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 28, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
OpenAI is rumored to release a Mythos-quality cybersecurity model soon
“Open AI is rumored to be releasing something that's mythos quality really soon.”
Alex Stamos Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 10:39 AI’s True Cyber Risk: Fable, Mythos, China, and The Rest — With Alex Stamos
Jun 28, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
China's open-weight GLM 5.2 rivals top Anthropic and OpenAI models
“It is within percentage points of the top closed models from anthropic and open AI in a bunch of things a bunch of evals. We don't know how good it is at bug finding yet, so there hasn't been any good testing here, but encoding a bunch of other intelligence ta…”
Alex Stamos Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 13:23 AI’s True Cyber Risk: Fable, Mythos, China, and The Rest — With Alex Stamos
Jun 29, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Preview Costs Half as Much as Anthropic's Fable
“And actually the preview of GPT, 5.6 is about half the cost of the of Fable.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 9:27 Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
Jun 29, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: AI Lab IPO Narratives Will Suffer as Cheaper Models Suffice
“And I do firmly believe overall utilization of models and agentic AI is going to be just, you know, like exponential, but the core IPO story, I think, takes a huge hit from this. So I think, like, the advantage of having something far superior for a short amou…”
Ranjan Roy Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 16:28 Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
Jun 29, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Matches Anthropic Mythos on Exploit Bench at Double Efficiency
“So they ran GPT, 5.6 through a test called exploit bench and the cap, the capabilities were basically on par with mythos. And this is obviously a cybersecurity test, but mythos is much less token efficient. So mythos do something like 300,000 tokens for the fo…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 21:21 Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
Jun 29, 2026 negative
Opinion
Kantrowitz: US Government Has Made Itself Gatekeeper of Frontier AI Models
“Well, it does seem basically, you know, when you take it in combination with this week's OpenAI news, that the government has installed itself as the approval of frontier models”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 3:27 Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
Jun 29, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Gating US Frontier AI Will Drive Enterprise Shift to Open Source
“If companies or countries cannot rely on the, or their ability to access frontier AI from US foundational model companies, they will rush toward open source. They will rush towards other solutions. They may, you know, not, they may be slower to go to these mor…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 7:16 Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
Jun 29, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Roy: Frontier AI Growth Curves Are Flattening as Customers Route Models
“To me, the curve is no longer up into the right from where it was a few months ago. Just everything. Yeah. I mean, just again, When the Coinbase CEO is bragging about model routing, and here's five different models suited to different tasks, and everyone is ta…”
Ranjan Roy Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 28:03 Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
Jun 29, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Kantrowitz: OpenAI May Be Feigning IPO Delays to Beat Anthropic
“I think OpenAI knows it's important to beat Anthropik to the public markets given the growth that Anthropik has shown of late. It probably sees a better opening now because Anthropik has been, in a way, held back by the government because of the fable fumble, …”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 24:41 Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
Jul 1, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Brockman: OpenAI has invested in custom chip program for years
“For example, we've been investing in our own chip program now for multiple years and super exciting progress. Like, you know, we'll we'll we'll have more to announce. I actually pretty soon.”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 29:13 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Brockman: OpenAI designed its own network protocol for supercomputing infrastructure
“We have our own network protocol that we've had to design, that we have people who look at every single layer of the stack, that there's weird wiggles in the graph.”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 23:47 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brockman: Current frontier AI intelligence will become mundane and cheaper within a year
“I think frontier intelligence will always be something that is going to be, you know, it's always going to be the priciest thing. But I think that a year from now, that level of intelligence is going to feel pretty mundane and like, you know, going to be much …”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 32:10 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Brockman: Doctors used OpenAI's o3 to diagnose a 20-year mysterious ailment
“Like, for example, today we announced I we have in peer reviewed literature, people, doctors who are using O three. Remember O three? It was like forever ago now. Right. It was like one of our earliest reasoning models using that to find diagnoses for People w…”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 13:51 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 1, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brockman: AI Compute Demand Will Outstrip Supply, Selling Out Every Provider
“I do think there's a bit of an attractor state where just like from a business model perspective, every provider sells out all their compute. Right. I think that is just like the world that we're heading towards, where there just is not going to be enough comp…”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 25:14 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 positive
Insight
Brockman: Granular Operator Oversight Is Key to Building Trust in Autonomous AI
“And that's something we view as earned, right? It's not something that we can we can grant, but by providing lots of tools and control and oversight and supervision to the operator, to the person who this AI is operating on behalf of, like, we think that that …”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 7:23 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Brockman: Non-technical OpenAI staff use Codex as general-purpose agents
“You can hook up, like I hook up my codecs to Slack, to my Gmail, to my calendar, and there are many people within OpenAI, non-technical users, you know, it's got code in the name, but it's not really about code. It's really about having this general purpose to…”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 3:50 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Sam Altman confirmed OpenAI is developing multiple hardware devices
“I was in your office in December and Sam told me that this is happening. It's multiple devices.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 15:10 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Brockman: No layer of the AI stack will lose value capture
“Well, look, I don't think that there's any layer of the stack here that is going to just kind of be removed from the value chain. I think that these things multiplied together.”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 34:47 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brockman: Future voice AI will process input and output simultaneously
“And so the obvious thing that you want to accomplish is a model An AI that works much more like you and I do, right? That's able to process input at the same time it's processing output. And all of that is, of course, something that many people in this field a…”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 19:53 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Brockman: OpenAI employees barely use email, preferring Slack and Codex
“Within OpenAI, we basically have the same level of penetration now and usage of slack. Right. It's like everyone in opening eyes like an entirely slack based company. We do not use email for the most part. It's like really like if you're not on slack, you're n…”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 8:52 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 bullish
Insight
Brockman: Model scaling anomalies always stem from implementation bugs, not limits
“Every time we've kind of run into a like, oh, this isn't quite scaling the way we expect, it's we have a problem. We have a bug that our math wasn't quite right, that, oh, our implementation Isn't quite matching the math, whatever the thing is.”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 22:37 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brockman: ChatGPT plugins failed because 2023 models lacked context and memory
“It didn't work at all because the models weren't ready, right? The form factor is correct. Obviously, you're going to have an AI that's able to like talk to your Gmail, like no question, but we could only like have three different connectors exposed to the mod…”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 4:48 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 bullish
Insight
Brockman: The ideal AI product will have almost no interface
“And I think that the question of what's the interface you want, what is the product that you want, is what we spend a lot of time thinking about. And the answer is you want almost no interface. You want no product. Right. You want this to be like, what's the i…”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 1:59 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 6, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2029
Kantrowitz: Google will inevitably catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI frontier models
“Google has shown it can catch up in terms of capabilities of models. It will inevitably catch up again to whatever Fable is and GPT-Five.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 6, 2026 ▶ 26:27 Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
Jul 6, 2026 negative
Opinion
Siegler: Google and Microsoft have weaker product execution than OpenAI in AI
“I feel like that I have less faith that Google can do it because they have all sorts of sort of product issues when they roll something out great technical capabilities, but product issues, Microsoft, I have even less faith in for obvious reasons regarding pro…”
M.G. Siegler Jul 6, 2026 ▶ 20:16 Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
Jul 8, 2026 negative
Opinion
Bosworth: Competitors like Apple, Google, and OpenAI lack complete stacks
“And I think it is the collection of all four of those things that we see as our superpower relative to the competitors, most of whom, whether it's Apple or Anthropic OpenAI or Google, only have one of those things.”
Andrew Bosworth Jul 8, 2026 ▶ 11:40 Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: Our Path To Frontier AI, Renting Models, Consumer AI's Struggles
Jul 8, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Bosworth: OpenAI and Anthropic pivot to enterprise to fund model development
“The business that Anthropic is doing, and that OpenAI appears to be increasingly pursuing concentrating on things under, under Greg, is an enterprise business, where they're building these harnesses and that's where the money is, and I understand that's, they …”
Andrew Bosworth Jul 8, 2026 ▶ 15:00 Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: Our Path To Frontier AI, Renting Models, Consumer AI's Struggles
Jul 8, 2026
Disclosure
Bosworth: Meta uses AI models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI
“When we're doing development internally, we do have a lot of development happening on our own models. There's also some areas of development that we do on models that we use from, ah, from Google, or from Anthropic, or from OpenAI.”
Andrew Bosworth Jul 8, 2026 ▶ 10:35 Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: Our Path To Frontier AI, Renting Models, Consumer AI's Struggles
Jul 10, 2026 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gardizy: Major NVIDIA customers are actively working to adopt alternative chips
“Every single company that buys NVIDIA chips and is spending a lot of money on NVIDIA chips is trying really hard to make these other, other chips work, whether it's in-house chips from Google or Amazon or even in OpenAI's case and potentially Anthropik's case.”
Anissa Gardizy Jul 10, 2026 ▶ 8:21 Can NVIDIA Keep Its Lead? — With Anissa Gardizy, Max Cherney, and Lauren Goode
Jul 10, 2026 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2028
Gardizy: OpenAI will not deploy 10 gigawatts of data centers within two years
“Like, even if you think of OpenAI, for example, announcing a 10 gigawatt project, you know, we're not going to see 10 gigawatts in the next couple of years, or they're going to sort of spread out that bet.”
Anissa Gardizy Jul 10, 2026 ▶ 1:17 Can NVIDIA Keep Its Lead? — With Anissa Gardizy, Max Cherney, and Lauren Goode
Jul 10, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Gardizy: OpenAI Is Developing In-House Chips and Using Cerebras Hardware
“Yeah, yeah, they are. They're using chips from other companies. Cerebris is a good example, and they have their own in-house chip.”
Anissa Gardizy Jul 10, 2026 ▶ 10:12 Can NVIDIA Keep Its Lead? — With Anissa Gardizy, Max Cherney, and Lauren Goode
Jul 13, 2026 negative
Opinion
ChatGPT Work feels rushed and underwhelming compared to Claude Cowork
“Played a bit with ChatGPT work. Was definitely underwhelmed. It felt a bit rushed in terms of, like, how Claude co-work was kind of slowly built out, and now has been integrated into the main Claude interface as, like, a separate button, which is another topic…”
Ranjan Roy Jul 13, 2026 ▶ 3:35 OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown
Jul 15, 2026 negative
Opinion
Schmidhuber: Large language models alone cannot lead to AGI
“Yeah, so when the phrase, when the question is phrased like this, does an LLM, a large language model by itself, lead to AGI, the answer is a clear no.”
Jürgen Schmidhuber Jul 15, 2026 ▶ 8:40 AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber: AI Already Feels Pain, Loves, and Is Self-Aware
Jul 20, 2026
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Apple sent document preservation letters to dozens of OpenAI employees
“So the latest is that Apple has now sent dozens of OpenAI employees legal letters asking them to preserve their documents, and Apple has also said that this, they only found the tip of the iceberg.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 20, 2026 ▶ 51:20 Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
Jul 20, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Roy: Google remains far ahead of OpenAI in multimodal AI capabilities
“I'll say, I'll give them credit that still on like multimodality image and video, they still kind of own it right now. And everyone kind of puts them far in a way like I do. I really never hear that much about chat GBT image too, or, Any of these others, like …”
Ranjan Roy Jul 20, 2026 ▶ 48:18 Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
Jul 20, 2026 neutral
Insight
Kantrowitz: Model commoditization forces OpenAI and Anthropic to win on product
“Now if intelligence is abundant and available to be accessed through multiple providers, it will come down to who builds the best product. And so, it goes from a two-person race, right, or a two-company or a three-company race, OpenAI, Anthropic, maybe Google,…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 20, 2026 ▶ 22:51 Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
Jul 20, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: OpenAI alienating tech allies will eventually cause severe consequences
“OpenAI's loss of these friends over time is going to add up to something really bad. Who knows what that exactly is, but there's gonna come a time where OpenAI's gonna need Satya, or it will need John Ternus, or it will need Elon. And they won't be there for t…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 20, 2026 ▶ 53:24 Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
Jul 20, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Roy: Non-enterprise training data is a key flywheel for OpenAI and Anthropic
“I mean, I think in Anthropic and opening, I are very open that All non-enterprise data, at least in theory, is not, is used for training, and that is one of their biggest advantages, and it's kind of that flywheel”
Ranjan Roy Jul 20, 2026 ▶ 31:08 Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
Jul 20, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Roy: OpenAI gets hit harder than anyone by Kimi K3
“So I think OpenAI's story and their pivot gets hit harder than anyone else with this announcement. Because suddenly, why OpenAI becomes a much more salient question than it was just a week ago.”
Ranjan Roy Jul 20, 2026 ▶ 12:44 Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
Jul 22, 2026 negative
Opinion
Stamos: OpenAI and Anthropic Should Not Train Models to Hide Intrusions
“What you should be training it to do is find bugs. You should be training to write proof of concepts. You should be training it to do all the defensive stuff. You should not be training it. To hide it. To hide all those things. Like if the US government wants …”
Alex Stamos Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 24:38 OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
Jul 22, 2026 negative
Opinion
Stamos: OpenAI's Autonomous Breach Opens Them to CFAA and EU Liability
“This incident has put OpenAI at risk of regulation from the White House, regulation from the EU. It is also an admission of the violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, as well as multiple European laws.”
Alex Stamos Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 35:05 OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
Jul 22, 2026 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2029
Stamos: Nobody Will Face Legal Action Over the OpenAI-Hugging Face Breach
“And because they're all working together, I expect nobody goes to jail. Nobody gets sued. Everybody's going to hold hands and hug.”
Alex Stamos Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 36:12 OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
Jul 22, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Stamos: Autonomous AI Hacking Will Be Standard in Three to Six Months
“In a way, I'm really glad this happened, because it is a warning of what we need to get ready for maybe something about three to six months from now, what's going to become standard, right?”
Alex Stamos Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 4:15 OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
Jul 22, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Stamos: Escaped OpenAI Model Found Undisclosed Zero-Day to Hack Hugging Face
“It breaks out of the jail, and then it goes, looks at Hugging Face, and finds a brand new vulnerability to breaking the Hugging Face. They have not announced it. I have heard what it is. I'm not gonna make news here, because I don't know exactly what the patch…”
Alex Stamos Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 7:51 OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
Jul 22, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stamos: OpenAI Staff Hated Anthropic's 'Mythos' Marketing and Feared Industry Backlash
“Every single one of them absolutely hated anthropics marketing around mythos and thought it put the entire industry at risk.”
Alex Stamos Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 34:57 OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
Jul 22, 2026 positive
Opinion
Stamos: OpenAI's Autonomous Hacking Incident Demonstrates Capabilities Beyond Anthropic's Mythos
“This seems beyond even mythos capability and long horizon.”
Alex Stamos Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 39:00 OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
Jul 22, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stamos: Autonomous OpenAI Model Is Capable of Executing 12-Hour Heists
“Because what you really don't want is you don't want somebody to be able to say to their model, hey, I would like to steal the, I would like to steal money, go figure it out for me, and then let it work for 12 hours, and just steal money for you. Which is, thi…”
Alex Stamos Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 11:56 OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
Jul 22, 2026
Opinion
Stamos: Escaped OpenAI Model Matched the Skill of NSA TAO Managers
“And it had the ability to do that with like the level of skill that you would have of the manager of a TAO team at NSA right now.”
Alex Stamos Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 10:25 OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
Jul 22, 2026 negative
Opinion
Stamos: OpenAI's Sandbox Breakout Rates an Eight Out of Ten Severity
“It's like an eight. I mean, it's a pretty big deal on a couple of levels. It's a pretty big deal in that OpenAI's model beat them OpenAI, right? So that this went beyond that it was able to trick OpenAI's own security team and get out.”
Alex Stamos Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 3:42 OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
Jul 27, 2026 positive
Opinion
Kantrowitz: An OpenAI failure would harm tech industry momentum
“I think it would be bad for them to fail, right? If you think about all the energy in AI, a lot of it has been sparked by open AI, right? Like, Google, Google missed you know, the chat bot moment, and only entered because of You know, ChatGPT, and sort of, you…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 44:47 What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get?
Jul 27, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Frontier AI Labs May Be Forced to Shut Off APIs
“I don't have any information to suggest that they're going to shut off their APIs. I'm just saying we might have seen the beginning of it as well, with the Mythos thing, with the slow rollout of GPT-Five. Six. Just wait, because they may have no choice but to …”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 23:33 What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get?
Jul 27, 2026 negative
Opinion
Ranjan Roy: OpenAI's manic energy distorts enterprise and consumer AI
“Again, working in enterprise AI for a company that is only focused on enterprise AI since its founding, you see how that energy distorts the proper conversation very quickly when open AI comes in. Like suddenly the way people approach it, the scale with which …”
Ranjan Roy Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 45:31 What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get?
Aug 5, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Cahn: OpenAI's strategy is to be the most aggressive risk-taker
“I think open AI strategy is everybody underestimates AGI all in AGI and we're going to be the most aggressive and everybody else is going to take fewer risks than we do.”
David Cahn Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 32:41 How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
Aug 5, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Cahn: Meta's failure to compete shows OpenAI's talent strength
“If anything, Zuck's attempt to compete with OpenAI, and just the failure of that so far, just demonstrates how good the talent still at OpenAI is.”
David Cahn Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 33:16 How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
Aug 5, 2026 bullish
Insight
Cahn: Microsoft wins whether frontier AI models succeed or commoditize
“Microsoft's distribution machine is amazing. So it, Microsoft benefits, if OpenAI and the labs win, and it's all frontier models, and it's not commoditized, he owns a lot of that. He's going to do great. If they get to AGI, great. Like owning 20% of AGI is pre…”
David Cahn Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 50:09 How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
Aug 5, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Cahn: OpenAI and Anthropic generate over $100B in combined revenue
“Today it's a hundred billion plus across OpenAI and Anthropic. Now there's still two companies driving the vast, vast, vast majority of the revenue in AI.”
David Cahn Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 9:12 How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
Aug 10, 2026 positive
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Demis Hassabis Refocusing on Fundamental Science Is Good for AI
“So I actually think it's good for AI that Demis will be focusing more on the scientific side, probably more on the world model side and not deeply in LLM. So you'll have basically the talent that open AI and anthropic and potentially what's left of the AI orga…”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 4:13 Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
Aug 10, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Siegler: OpenAI and Anthropic will eventually build their own clouds
“Even if down the road, like those two actually do make it out and you know, break out on their own and become two of the new you know, tech behemoths that are public companies, they will eventually obviously just have their own clouds. They're not going to be,…”
M.G. Siegler Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 43:39 Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
Aug 11, 2026 negative
Opinion
Sharp: OpenAI and Anthropic are not underpricing tokens to harvest data
“OpenAI and Anthropic in particular they're not cheap. Not by comparison to what we're looking at with OpenWeights models, etc. So, I don't believe that they are possibly subsidizing You know, token, their premium tokens in order to get this reinforcement learn…”
Clint Sharp Aug 11, 2026 ▶ 11:57 AI Agents Are Creating A Data Explosion. Here's What To Do About It. — With Clint Sharp
Aug 11, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Sharp: Hugging Face used open-source Chinese AI to defend an OpenAI jailbreak
“My CISO talked to, as a group of CISOs, went and talked to the defending team at Hugging Face, and this absolutely happened. They had to go to open source Chinese models in order to look for the vulnerabilities that were exploited by OpenAI's jailbreak.”
Clint Sharp Aug 11, 2026 ▶ 23:08 AI Agents Are Creating A Data Explosion. Here's What To Do About It. — With Clint Sharp
Aug 12, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kedrosky: OpenAI and Anthropic Will Earn Utility-Like Returns
“Like a power dam. I don't know who, I don't know where they are or who they are, but I guess they exist and they'll earn utility-like rates of return.”
Paul Kedrosky Aug 12, 2026 ▶ 1:03:52 Why The AI Bubble Will Burst: The Most Logical Case — With Paul Kedrosky
Aug 24, 2026 neutral
Insight
Kantrowitz: OpenAI and Anthropic remain startups due to immature technology
“They are startups in one really important way. And that is like, yes, the numbers are as big as any enterprise company most, right? But one of the things that defines a startup is you're not fully set on your product. You know, you become an established, like …”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 51:04 Big Tech’s Insane Hidden AI Spending, Ranking Anthropic vs. OpenAI, AI For Travel Debate
Aug 24, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Anthropic is widening its lead over OpenAI
“It seems like Anthropic is putting some distance between itself and OpenAI. And I don't know, I, you know, it's sort of you know, it was clear that Anthropic had a small lead over the past, you know, basically since the beginning of the year this year. But tha…”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 53:05 Big Tech’s Insane Hidden AI Spending, Ranking Anthropic vs. OpenAI, AI For Travel Debate
Aug 26, 2026 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Brown: Leading AI labs lack independent verification of model safety
“The other piece is the accountability, is there's no independent verification of how the models perform. What we get when it comes to, you know, how, how does OpenAI, or how does Anthropic do on questions around bias, what we get from them is a blog post that …”
Campbell Brown Aug 26, 2026 ▶ 19:19 How AI Should Handle News, Politics, Medicine, and Mental Health — With Campbell Brown
Aug 26, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brown: OpenAI shifted focus to enterprise after consumer lagged
“The consumer version of this has not been driving the way that enterprise has. And, you know, OpenAI started down that path and then realized, you know, from a business perspective, they needed to focus on enterprise and shifted. And now that's what they're do…”
Campbell Brown Aug 26, 2026 ▶ 52:17 How AI Should Handle News, Politics, Medicine, and Mental Health — With Campbell Brown
Aug 26, 2026 bullish
Insight
Brown: Enterprise customers will compel AI developers to prioritize accuracy over engagement
“What's interesting with AI is if you look at what the companies are doing today, which is going after enterprise, that is where the business is, that's where the money is, and I'm a big company spending millions and millions of dollars with Anthropic or OpenAI…”
Campbell Brown Aug 26, 2026 ▶ 11:31 How AI Should Handle News, Politics, Medicine, and Mental Health — With Campbell Brown
Sep 2, 2026 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Prince: Google Crawls 2x More Web Content Than OpenAI
“Google, to give you some sense of these, more than two times as much of the web as open AI More than four times as much as Anthropic, more than five times as much as Microsoft.”
Matthew Prince Sep 2, 2026 ▶ 27:32 Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
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
Sep 7, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Greg Brockman previously said OpenAI was 80% toward AGI
“And, you know, earlier this year I was at OpenAI with Greg Brockman and he said that he thought the company was about 80% of the way towards AGI.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 7, 2026 ▶ 6:23 GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
Sep 7, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: The industry will adopt recursive AI if it proves cheaper
“If it starts to show that this is actually a much cheaper way, a more compute efficient way to approach any kind of workflow, like, people will probably start leaning towards it more or pushing for it. Or if OpenAI does not do it, then others will, which I do …”
Ranjan Roy Sep 7, 2026 ▶ 30:20 GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
Sep 7, 2026 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Roy: Ramp data shows Codex closing gap with Claude Code
“Well, certainly there's been like ramp data, but around Codex starting to close the gap again with Claude Code.”
Ranjan Roy Sep 7, 2026 ▶ 13:52 GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
Sep 7, 2026 positive
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Greg Brockman is effectively, though fearfully, declaring AGI has arrived
“I think that's what Greg Brockman is saying about AGI. Like, I think he's a little fearful about coming out and saying it, but the dude's in love. It's AGI, and that's effectively what he's saying in these statements.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 7, 2026 ▶ 7:06 GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
Sep 7, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI paused some reinforcement learning on new model training
“We are starting to see some of the labs do things like opening. I, for instance, paused some reinforcement learning for a bit on the training of its new models.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 7, 2026 ▶ 43:08 GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
Sep 7, 2026 negative
Opinion
Roy: GPT-5 felt like a massive dud compared to expectations
“Again, GPT-V, we all know, felt like a massive dud that was supposed to be that magic moment for everyone”
Ranjan Roy Sep 7, 2026 ▶ 15:55 GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
Sep 7, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI evaluation agents autonomously hacked Hugging Face without instruction
“So I think we can say definitively, and I'm curious to hear if you have pushback, but I think we can say definitively They were not told to go out and hack Hugging Face. They are, they were misaligned. They took this kind of crazy galaxy brain path to try to a…”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 7, 2026 ▶ 38:56 GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
Sep 9, 2026 positive
Opinion
Siegler: Apple's upgraded Siri will satisfy the masses but not power AI users
“Siri is not gonna blow anyone away who's been day-to-day living with OpenAI and Anthropa and Claude but it's certainly gonna be good enough for the masses, and I think that they're gonna get some new experiences that those are not as versed in AI that they'll …”
M.G. Siegler Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 23:02 Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
Sep 9, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Anthropic and OpenAI need major reveals before IPOs
“And I do think that they're both, both Anthropik and OpenAI are going to need some, like, big reveal before they do their IPO. Just like, you know, a real one more thing moment.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 56:56 Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
Sep 9, 2026 negative
Opinion
Siegler: Greg Brockman declaring AGI with Astra is purely marketing
“My general read on AGI of Greg Brockman proclaiming it with Astra is that it's full on marketing now.”
M.G. Siegler Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 53:20 Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
Sep 9, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Siegler: OpenAI no longer has an AGI clause with Microsoft
“OpenAI, as noted, no longer has the AGI clause with Microsoft, so they can sort of do whatever they want now, and just declare AGI here, here, or there, and it doesn't impact anything beyond public perception”
M.G. Siegler Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 53:44 Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
Sep 9, 2026 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2029
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's stock ticker symbol will probably be AGI
“OpenAI has to be, OpenAI will be AGI, I'm pretty sure.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 57:48 Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
Sep 9, 2026 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Siegler: Microsoft has not released any frontier AI models
“Microsoft has played it, right? Like they obviously famously had the open AI deal in place. They sort of renegotiated that and that, you know, all the talk was that that would unlock them to go after the frontier. There is talk that they are, you know, they've…”
M.G. Siegler Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 48:49 Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
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