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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Instagram comes up
When AI Agents Run Businesses — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
- ▶ 35:19 unnamed speaker TikTok, Instagram.
Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
- ▶ 7:54 unnamed speaker So then they started investing a lot in TikTok and Instagram and all those things, but you didn't need to because you just.
The $15B Physical AI Company: Simulation, Autonomy OS, Neural Sim, & 1K Engineers—Applied Intuition
- ▶ 7:01 Qasar Younis Like that was just not our, that's just not us in a more, most fundamental way.
⚡️ Polsia: Solo Founder Tiny Team from 0 to 1m ARR in 1 month & the future of Self-Running Companies
- ▶ 19:19 unnamed speaker Uh, it doesn't take too much time, but like, obviously I've had a lot of users are like, Hey, I'd love to connect my Instagram
Inside AI’s $10B+ Capital Flywheel — Martin Casado & Sarah Wang of a16z
- ▶ 28:49 Shawn Wang And, and here's like, well, uh, they apparently they're running Instagram ads for Claudia on, you know, for, for people.
The Future of Email: Superhuman CTO on Your Inbox As the Real AI Agent (Not ChatGPT) — Loïc Houssier
- ▶ 38:26 Loïc Houssier Like TikTok, like whatever, like Instagram, like they communicate over Instagram. 2 times in the scene
World Models & General Intuition: Khosla's largest bet since LLMs & OpenAI
- ▶ 17:29 Pim de Witte And the reason is because Metal is a lot more like Instagram than it is like Twitch.
Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
- ▶ 1:11:20 Alessio Fanelli And so it's like, okay, well, the amount of money being spent in this space is large enough to justify betting, like the same way Instagram was like one percent of Facebook market cap.
⚡️Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Anthropic's roadmap for Agents and Developers — Mike Krieger, Anthropic
- ▶ 0:24 unnamed speaker Uh, it's so, it's so surreal to have you here because obviously, like, uh, everyone knows, like, uh, Instagram, and obviously, uh, uh, now you're sort of, uh, CPO at Anthropic.
- ▶ 25:00 Mike Krieger It's something I used to do at Instagram. 2 times in the scene
The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
- ▶ 17:14 Stephanie Palazzolo If I'm going on Instagram and, like, the only AI stuff I see is, like, oh, do I want to talk to, like, like, an AI version of, like, the Hawk Tua girl?
AI is Eating Search
- ▶ 52:17 Robert McCloy And then meta AI, right, like Sleeper has published stats on, you know, having seven hundred million, I'm sure more than that now, active users, because they're, you know, if you do an Instagram search, you end up in meta AI.
AI Video Is Eating The World — Olivia and Justine Moore, a16z
- ▶ 2:24 Olivia Moore I would say we've seen the same thing happen on, I mean, if you've been on TikTok or Reels or YouTube Shorts recently, in the past week, probably 90% of your feed is AI generated video.
- ▶ 5:42 Justine Moore Um, AI video, chat GPT, Singularity, like, basically all of the AI oriented, um, the AI video one was, like, the one for a while, and then people like me would take the best content from there and bring it to Twitter, and then, like, the… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:10 Justine Moore I would say that we, like, I generate dozens of VO three videos every day and just don't post most of them on, like, TikTok or Instagram, so I've definitely experimented with the vlog format, and it's, like, pretty easy to do.
- ▶ 17:38 Justine Moore Before, honestly, to be, like, an Instagram or YouTube influencer, most of them are hot people. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:45 Justine Moore For people who just like want to make a meme or like a fun video to share with their friends or with their Instagram audience, you probably don't need Comfy UI.
- ▶ 31:24 unnamed speaker Well, I mean, like, this is the most uncool I've ever felt, um, because I, I, like, I clearly don't scroll to TikTok and Instagram, but like. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:51 Olivia Moore Yeah, set up a separate account on YouTube, on Instagram, on TikTok, on X, and kind of take a look at what people are posting there, and just follow a bunch of AI accounts, and then the feed will give you more.
Tiny Teams: $6m ARR, 5m users with 4 employees — Sid Bendre, Oleve (Quizard AI/Unstuck AI)
- ▶ 12:06 Sid Bendre TikTok and Instagram mostly are bread and butter.
npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare
- ▶ 32:45 Shawn Wang Every big Insta person has a Finsta.
Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
- ▶ 15:43 William Beauchamp And that was when I started to look less at platforms like Google, and I started to look more at platforms like Instagram. 4 times in the scene
Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
- ▶ 48:07 unnamed speaker Instagram suggestions that got me to scroll, like AI generated stickers on WhatsApp and all of that.
- ▶ 55:39 unnamed speaker Yeah, so like, you know, there, there's a decent amount of workload serving Facebook and Instagram and, you know, whatever.
- ▶ 1:31:18 Soumith Chintala Like, as of today, you don't really think about, like, when you're watching an Instagram reel or something,