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Ben Thompson: OpenAI could stop model training and remain wildly valuable
“Actually, OpenAI could stop making models and be one of the most valuable companies in the world just because of ChatGPT. That's their most valuable asset.”
Ben Thompson: OpenAI might be a bigger threat to Meta than Google
“I think OpenAI might be a bigger threat to Facebook than Google, something worth considering”
Taylor: Generalist product engineers using AI are worth 1,000x other engineers
“With the presence of Codex, you can produce amazing results. Those people are truly worth a thousand X other people, because it's relatively easy to find someone who's a great infrastructure engineer. Not easy easy, but like relatively. Finding someone with go…”
Ben Thompson: Google should monetize Gemini data through YouTube and Search
“I think the ideal outcome for Google is they never put ads in Gemini, but they understand so much about you because of what you do in Gemini, that they can then manifest that through ads on YouTube, through ads on Google, through ads on their other properties.”
Ben Thompson: Contextual chat ads limit inventory and provoke bias suspicions
“If you're using the easiest possible way to target ads, which is based on the context of the conversation, we're going to show you a roughly relevant ad. Number one, your market's way smaller because you have to hope someone starts a conversation that matches …”
Ben Thompson: OpenAI's strategy resembles AOL's closed aggregator portal model
“OpenAI wants to be the place you do everything. They want to be like the aggregator. I think a critic would say people compare them to Netscape. I think the better analogy if you're an OpenAI skeptic would be AOL, where they want to be sort of like the interfa…”
Nadella: Microsoft Copilot supports both OpenAI models and Anthropic's Claude
“On Copilot today, you use OpenAI models, you use even Claude, right? I need the system to work across both of those.”
Taylor: The OpenAI board's sole fiduciary duty is ensuring AGI benefits humanity
“The fiduciary duty is you have a duty to the mission. And that is really clarifying and interesting as well, because when you're making decisions and you realize, you know, you have, your sole duty is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits hum…”
Taylor: Altman and the OpenAI board mutually agreed on him as mediator
“Basically my understanding was I was the person that both the Existing board and Sam agreed upon to kind of help mediate the situation.”
Collison: Stripe partnered with OpenAI for ChatGPT shopping experience
“And we partnered with OpenAI to power the first shopping experience inside ChatGPT.”
Lütke: Shopify is building software to connect stores directly to AI platforms
“What we want to do is make sure that like, Everyone's plugged into the various chat systems, and there's an MCP connected to every Shopify store, and you know, global catalog that's really nicely presented, so it's we're building software specifically for the …”