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LeCun: Meta AI users are less active than ChatGPT users
“Yeah, but they, but it's not used as much as ChatGPT. Right. So the users are not as intense.”
Interviewees Are More Candid With AI Agents Than Human Reporters
“When it comes to people asking questions or conversing with ChatGPT, there's a quality of, you don't necessarily feel like there's someone there, and you might be a little more intimate than you would have otherwise. And that can be very valuable in an intervi…”
Lebaredian: ChatGPT would not exist without NVIDIA's early LLM software work
“Had we had not done that, I don't think we would have had ChatGPT.”
Hoffman: Voice will very soon become the main computing interface
“A hundred percent. One of the party tricks I do is I bring out my phone and put ChatGPT on audio mode to show people. Because part of when we learn to use phones or PCs, we've learned, you know, with GUIs and everything else, we've made it softer, but there's …”
Wang predicts AI agents will have a 'ChatGPT moment' in 2025
“Yeah, I do think that, yeah, I think that 20, 20 25 is really going to be the year where we start to see some kind of very basic primordial AI agents really start working in the consumer realm and creating sort of real consumer adoption. You know, another way …”
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.”
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…”
Current version of ChatGPT is actually 'not very good'
“You know, today they have, like, ChatGPT. It's, like, not very good.”
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.”
Ramaswamy: Google's delay in generative AI was an internal choice, not technical
“And remember Google's lack of progress in generative AI like, you know, that's internally driven. Nothing stopped them from creating ChatGPT. They chose not to.”
Marcus: ChatGPT succeeded over Galactica due to RL guardrails
“Part of the reason why ChatGPT succeeded where Galactica didn't is Galactica didn't really have those guardrails at all, and so it was just, you know, very easy to get it to say terrible things, and it's harder to get ChatGPT to say terrible things because tha…”
Roy: Claude-Salesforce Integrations Were Already Possible Before Official ClaudeForce Launch
“I don't want to say it's a complete non-event, but you could already do this in Salesforce and Claude. At Rider, where I work, people connect to Salesforce and run all types of queries. It's actually one of the most valuable things I've found for my day-to-day…”
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.”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Reached One Billion Active Users
“ChatGPT, according to third parties, has recently hit one billion active users.”
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.”
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.”
Kantrowitz: AI chatbots will directly manage trading strategies and bank funds
“The second you start researching stocks in ChatGPT, we're going to get to a place where ChatGPT or Claude will offer to build a strategy for you. We'll have access to your bank account. We'll ask if you want to portion some money towards, you know, giving this…”
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.”
Cuban: Business leaders who avoid using LLMs are falling behind
“I think, you know, if you're not using one of the large language models, whether it's Claude, my favorite, ChatGPT, Grok Gemini, you know, from a business perspective, since this is a business and student audience, you're falling way behind. That if you don't …”
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.”
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.”
ChatGPT leads Gemini web traffic by 3x and Claude by 30x
“If you look at the gap between them and the number two Gemini on web, it's about still two and a half, three X. The gap between them and something like a Claude is closer to, like, 30 X. So even though a lot of these other apps are getting more attention, Chat…”
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.”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT On Track for One Billion Users by Late March
“Definitely on track for a billion by mid, mid to late March.”
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…”
Siegler: Microsoft's heavy-handed response to Sydney hampered its AI momentum
“Microsoft maybe shot themselves in the foot because they put the foot down like so hard and sort of made it sure that no one could do anything like the Sydney situation again, because it got so much negative press for them, obviously, but in a way that probabl…”
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.”
Hassabis: Google Has No Immediate Plans for Ads in Gemini
“He said we have no plan at no plans at the moment to do ads. If you're talking about the Gemini app specifically, I think we're obviously going to watch very carefully the outcome of what ChatGPT is saying they're going to do. I think that has to be handled ve…”
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.”
Siegler: Microsoft missed its chance to turn Bing into ChatGPT
“It was a huge missed opportunity. They could have made being a real potential competitor to Google and In some ways they, you know, they were probably too early, I'm sure. And they stubbed their toe and they pulled back... But still they were there and they co…”
Kantrowitz: Perplexity's functionality will be swallowed by Gemini and ChatGPT
“I'm much less bullish on perplexity than I was. I just think that like their functionality is just going to be swallowed up by the Geminis and the chat GPTs of the world.”
Cramer: Google Gemini is superior to ChatGPT
“And Gemini's so great. It takes a little time. It's a little, puts a little more thought into it, and isn't cheeky.”
ChatGPT cannot threaten Google without a search ads engine
“Until someone builds another search ads business, it doesn't matter what ChatGPT does.”
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…”
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.”
Altman: OpenAI's API grew faster than ChatGPT this year
“And like the API business grew faster for us this year than even ChatGPT.”
ChatGPT Was the Greatest Software Demo Ever for White-Collar Work
“ChatGPT offered law firms the greatest demo in the history of software for what it could do for the white collar professional.”
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…”
ChatGPT Traffic Converts to Paid Subscriptions 4x Higher Than Google Search
“The thing that's really important to us is that it converts into paid subscribers four times higher than Google traffic.”
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.”
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.”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Run-Rate Revenue Tops $12 Billion
“ChatGPT has continued its epic rise to north of twelve billion dollars in run rate revenue.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Roy: AI stocks drove 75% of S&P returns since ChatGPT launch
“AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P returns, 80% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending growth since ChatGPT launched in November, twenty-twenty-two.”
Kantrowitz: AI companies cannot serve companion, thought partner, and agent concurrently
“And that to me is, I think it's a problem, and that's why I think these companies are gonna have to have clarity over which one they're going for. You cannot really do all three. Maybe you can do it in the same product, but you definitely need a switcher.”