ChatGPT
also referred to as: chat gpt
includes ChatGPT Pro, ChatGPT Voice
16 statements across 13 episodes · 6 bullish · 6 bearish · 13 people on the record · first statement Mar 18, 2025 by Alex Wiltschko · said 89 times in 30 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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brought up most by Patrick O'Shaughnessy (16), Dylan Patel (13), David George (7), Gokul Rajaram (6), Brian Chesky (6), Sam Altman (5), Rob Wachen (3), Joe Liemandt (3)
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2026 43 mentions in 15 episodes 3 per episode
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- Why the AI Boom Is Just Getting Started · Invest Like The Best
- World's Top Researcher on AI, LLMs, and Robot Intelligence · Invest Like The Best
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2025 46 mentions in 15 episodes 3 per episode
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Everything said about ChatGPT, oldest first
Mar 18, 2025 bearish
Wiltschko: Text AI Is Nearing the Plateau of Its Capability S-Curve
“I think we're pretty close to the right side of that S-curve with text, right? Like, we kind of blew past it, but yeah, we passed the Turing test, right? Like, I regularly am fooled and curious whether or not this was written by ChatGPT or not. So text works. …”
Aug 26, 2025 bearish
Liemandt: 90% of student ChatGPT usage is for cheating, not learning
“90% of the use of chat GPT is to cheat kids. Take it. Now there are 10% use case of people who are like, I need a Socratic tutor where I'm super excited about it, and I need to dive in deeper, right? And that five to 10%, those kids are going to crush it with …”
Nov 4, 2025 neutral
Dec 2, 2025 neutral
George: Future AI Interaction Will Shift from Reactive Chatbots to Proactive Systems
“I don't think that the future of how we interact with AI is going to be a chat pot. Like, I just think that's way too limiting. I think the big shift will be a sort of what is reactive today to something that's proactive in the future.”
Dec 9, 2025 neutral
Smartphones will run pruned frontier AI models locally within three years
“In three years on a bigger and bulkier phone to fit the amount of DRAM necessary, you know, and the battery won't probably last as long. You will be able to probably run a pruned down version of something like Gemini five or GroK four, GroK 4.1, or, you know, …”
Jan 29, 2026 bullish
Jan 29, 2026 bearish
Startups Building Ad Optimization Tools for ChatGPT Will Ultimately Fail
“There's going to be almost certainly a cottage industry of companies that are going to come and say, I'm going to help you optimize ads in ChatGPT. There's already companies that help you optimize placement In what is called these answer engines called AEO ins…”
Feb 24, 2026 bullish
Sundheim: Personalization, Not Answer Quality, Will Be the Moat for AI Assistants
“I think if you're Google or you are OpenAI, the differentiating factor will not necessarily be that Google gives you a better answer. Like if we were just like to, you know query Gemini or ChatGPT on something I don't think it's the case that we would say defi…”
Mar 31, 2026 positive
May 5, 2026 bearish
Jun 16, 2026 positive
Amin: Clay was already taking off before ChatGPT's release
“That actually allowed the company to take off, because the company was already taking off before, like, ChatGPT came out, and we were well set up to include, kind of, like, LLMs in Clay, because one, we were set up to allow any integration to anything, and two…”
Jun 30, 2026 negative
Jul 28, 2026 bullish
Jul 28, 2026 positive
Jul 28, 2026 neutral
Altman: ChatGPT was almost named 'Chat with GPT-3.5' before launch
“In fact, it was originally gonna be called chat with GPT 3.5. And we didn't plan to be product. Didn't think it'd be a huge ship, but did think it would get people The world to like catch up with this and realize something was going on. And we mercifully renam…”
Aug 18, 2026 bearish
Thompson: Early OpenAI ad model would severely threaten Google and Meta
“There's a bit where had they leaned into advertising immediately as soon as ChatGPT was a hit, I think they would have a killer ad product right now. I think that Google would be in much bigger trouble. I think Meta would be in much bigger trouble”