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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where OpenAI comes up
The Outlier Playbook: The Patterns Behind Enduring Success
- ▶ 18:17 Shane Parrish So does OneX.tech, an OpenAI-backed startup along with hundreds of thousands of tech companies worldwide.
Bernie Marcus: The Story of Home Depot
- ▶ 19:53 Shane Parrish So does OneX.tech, an OpenAI-backed startup along with hundreds of thousands of tech companies worldwide.
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 16:32 Shane Parrish So does OneX.tech, an OpenAI-backed startup along with hundreds of thousands of tech companies worldwide.
Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- ▶ 14:38 Shane Parrish So does OneX.tech, an OpenAI-backed startup along with hundreds of thousands of tech companies worldwide.
Forensic Account: The Bubble No One is Talking About | Anthony Scilipoti
- ▶ 19:23 Shane Parrish So does OneX.Tech, an OpenAI-backed startup along with hundreds of thousands of tech companies worldwide.
- ▶ 30:39 Anthony Scilipoti So you have the likes of the NVIDIAs of the world, and let's say Microsoft, and you have OpenAI and such, and NVIDIA is investing in OpenAI, and Microsoft is an investor in OpenAI. 3 times in the scene
Barry Diller: Building IAC
- ▶ 31:54 Shane Parrish So does OneX.tech, an OpenAI-backed startup along with hundreds of thousands of tech companies worldwide.
How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- ▶ 1:39:46 Lulu Cheng Meservey How do you get that person to join, and that person's gonna leave, like, open AI or something and go do that?
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 31:06 Benedict Evans You have that, the OpenAI and people have been doing memory, where it remembers what else you've asked, but that seems more like a switching cost than a network effect, and also it might be easier for you to just ask it what it knows about… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:58 Benedict Evans You've got the numbers from, so, so, so, so, so OpenAI would say, well, we've got this many weekly active users. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:07 Benedict Evans And we've got these stories about, like, well, Meta bought half 49% of scale.ai for fifteen billion dollars, apparently looked at, at, at both of the other recent OpenAI spin-outs, Safe Routes Superintelligence, and what's the other one? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:36 Benedict Evans They've got this weird contentious relationship with Sam Altman and OpenAI, and it's basically not their models.
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year
- ▶ 1:43:28 Harley Finkelstein I mean, you can literally generate a Python script right now in a matter of 30 seconds with OpenAI.
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment
- ▶ 43:29 Reed Hastings As a search replacement, so I tend to use, um, uh, Claude, uh, you know, or Gemini, or OpenAI, where I would have used search.
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
- ▶ 16:40 Elad Gil You know, the engineers at OpenAI used to go into the weights to query, um,
- ▶ 17:46 Elad Gil We'll see fewer, what are known as foundation model companies, the people building the open AIs or Anthropics or some of the Google core technologies.
- ▶ 27:49 Elad Gil And that's the new stuff from open AI in terms of O-one and O-three and all these things.
- ▶ 27:49 Elad Gil And that's the new stuff from open AI in terms of O-one and O-three and all these things.
- ▶ 27:49 Elad Gil And that's the new stuff from open AI in terms of O-one and O-three and all these things.
- ▶ 33:48 Elad Gil And then if you look at a lot of the new reasoning stuff that OpenAI and others have been working on, Google's been working on some stuff here as well. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:55 Elad Gil Obviously, there's Google, there's Meta, there's OpenAI, there's Microsoft, Anthropic, and AWS, or Anthropic, um, x.ai, you know, Mastral has done some interesting things over time.
- ▶ 54:53 Elad Gil They backed open AI at GPT-II, which is like a huge risk.
- ▶ 1:08:40 Elad Gil One could argue Sam Altman has sort of maintained that over a very long arc between YC and the early things he was involved with the investing side, and then of course now OpenAI and other areas.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 1:02:02 Shane Parrish So like at what point are the models doing the work of the humans in OpenAI right now? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:39 Shane Parrish So you don't believe there's gonna be one winner that dominates, like OpenAI, or Anthropic, or?
- ▶ 1:38:40 Garry Tan The way OpenAI talks about O-one, they're sort of, ah, connected, but like different steps.
- ▶ 1:38:40 Garry Tan The way OpenAI talks about O-one, they're sort of, ah, connected, but like different steps.
- ▶ 1:50:42 Garry Tan Uh, what we just described with, um, how Jake Heller broke it down into chain of thoughts to make case text work, um, it turns out that that maps to basically how the reasoning stuff works, and so, you know, the difference between what… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:51:25 Garry Tan That's actually happening in the background for O-one and O-three. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:58:41 Garry Tan I mean, I think Microsoft has, um, you know, just really, really deep access to OpenAI, and I think OpenAI is probably, you said public companies, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:12:50 Garry Tan The, the Sam Altman haters or the OpenAI haters out there love to point out, like, oh, you know what, like, the Transformer was made by all these teams. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:16:57 Garry Tan We, you know, kind of like, I think, what Sam did with OpenAI with, you know, pulling forward large language models and AI and bringing about AGI sooner.
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 3:42 Bret Taylor I don't think I extrapolated to what, you know, uh, where we are now, but it, uh, for me, shook me and realized I need to pay more attention to this space and open AI specifically than I had been.
- ▶ 14:19 Shane Parrish You're on the board of OpenAI.
- ▶ 16:45 Bret Taylor Uh, everyone from, uh, Toby Lukey to Mark Benioff to Mark Zuckerberg to, uh, Sam at OpenAI, and I think when you have founded a company, all your stakeholders, employees in particular, uh, give you the benefit of the doubt.
- ▶ 46:44 Bret Taylor From Google that sort of led to where we are now, but there's been a number of really important papers since then from the idea of chain of thought reasoning to, um, what, uh, at OpenAI, what we did with the O-one model, which is to, um,…
- ▶ 46:44 Bret Taylor From Google that sort of led to where we are now, but there's been a number of really important papers since then from the idea of chain of thought reasoning to, um, what, uh, at OpenAI, what we did with the O-one model, which is to, um,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:34 Bret Taylor Not just OpenAI, like every, every engineer, um, and, and, and that's a principle that should not change.
- ▶ 52:06 Bret Taylor So, I really like OpenAI's mission, uh, which is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:12 Shane Parrish On the other hand, you have people like OpenAI, uh, and Microsoft investing tons of money into it that may be more proprietary, or, um, how do you think about 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:25 Bret Taylor And these are the models that are usually like the one or two that are clearly the leading edge, O-three, as an example from OpenAI.
- ▶ 1:03:01 Shane Parrish Like, OpenAI has a revenue model around a revenue model.
- ▶ 1:07:20 Bret Taylor Well, first, I think OpenAI, I believe, will play a huge part in it, because, uh, there's both the technology, which I think OpenAI continues to lead on, um, but also ChatGPT, which has become synonymous with AI for most consumers, but… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:22 Bret Taylor O-one pro mode, um, generate end to end a compiler, front end parsing the grammar, um, checking for semantic correctness, generating an intermediate representation, and then using, uh, uh, LLVM, which is sort of a compiler collection, um,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:29 Bret Taylor At some point, there's probably someone from OpenAI listening who's gonna, like, roll their eyes, but that's just, uh, that's Ive. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:46:56 Bret Taylor I'm so passionate about OpenAI.
Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
- ▶ 1:23 Shane Parrish We're back to our regular programming Tuesday with an incredible episode on AI with OpenAI chairman and Sierra founder, Brett Taylor.
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 15:45 Josh Wolfe I'm complimenting that with all-day chats with perplexity and Claude and OpenAI and, you know, any number of LLMs that might hallucinate just like a friend and might be wrong about something, uh, but might give me some profound insight.
- ▶ 21:53 Josh Wolfe The second that DeepSea comes out, it suddenly accelerated the internal strategic decisions from OpenAI of when are we gonna release models.
- ▶ 23:09 Josh Wolfe Straight head-to-head competition, you know, Anthropic, and Claude, and Chachapiti, and OpenAI, and others. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:37 Josh Wolfe I have to imagine they are, because deep research came out, you know, today or in the past 24 hours from OpenAI, which is sort of their model with a better engine, so to speak, than Google's deep research, which itself was impressive, both…
- ▶ 39:31 Josh Wolfe If you're, um, an investor in, or you're Sam Altman in OpenAI, you're not only worried about competition, you're worrying about a personal grudge from somebody who has the ear of the president that can weaponize all kinds of, uh, systems…
- ▶ 1:25:36 Josh Wolfe Like, well, I love that moment when, um, I think it was Mira from OpenAI was asked, like, you know, so did you train?
- ▶ 1:50:34 Josh Wolfe Because open AI investors and stakeholders were up in arms that are one stole from open AI, but you can make the argument that open AI is trained on the repository of like the public internet and, and, you know, every art that's ever been… 2 times in the scene
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 1:44:31 Alfred Lin Um, other things that, you know, I'd say we try to avoid is, um, things that are roadkill along the way of a company like OpenAI or Google or Amazon or Meta.