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Taylor: Sierra charges customers for AI outcomes, not per-seat software licenses
“Our pricing model is really unique and comes from first principles thinking rather than having our customers pay a license for the privilege of using our platform. We only charge our customers for the outcomes meaning if the AI agent they've built for their cu…”
Bret Taylor Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 18:28 Be Your Best in 2026: The Most Important Lessons from The Knowledge Project (2025)
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Taylor: Sierra charges strictly for outcomes rather than software license fees
“Rather than having our customers pay a license for the privilege of using our platform, we only charge our customers for the outcomes. meaning if the AI agent they've built for their customers solves the problem, there's like a, usually a pre-negotiated rate…”
Bret Taylor Apr 15, 2025 ▶ 28:33 Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
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Taylor: OpenAI o1 used reinforcement learning on chains of thought
“What at OpenAI, what we did with the O-one model, which is to do some reinforcement learning those chains of thought to really reach new levels of intelligence.”
Bret Taylor Apr 15, 2025 ▶ 46:44 Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
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Taylor: Every engineer at Sierra uses Cursor for code generation
“Every single engineer at CIRA uses a cursor, which is a great product that Basically integrates with the IDE, Visual Studio Code, to help you generate code more quickly.”
Bret Taylor Apr 15, 2025 ▶ 30:27 Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
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Sierra founders use OpenAI o1 Pro to critique company strategy
“Clay and I use the O-one pro mode for, like, criticizing our strategy at CIRA all the time.”
Bret Taylor Apr 15, 2025 ▶ 1:08:26 Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
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Bret Taylor uses GPT-4o to refine prompts for slower reasoning models
“I often, with the reasoning models, which are slower, will use a faster model first, GBT-IV-O, to refine my prompts.”
Bret Taylor Apr 15, 2025 ▶ 1:09:53 Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
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Bret Taylor: Ignored LLM progress entirely until OpenAI's DALL-E launch
“I hadn't been paying attention to large language models. I just, it didn't follow the progress after the Transformers paper. And I saw that and my reaction was, I had no idea computers could do that.”
Bret Taylor Apr 15, 2025 ▶ 3:22 Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
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