Quadratic

“Drop a CSV and chat GPT and ask it for a chart. Those aren't responsive. Those aren't interactive. And those, I don't think ultimately help people understand data better.”

“You can't export a quadratic sheet back into Excel. You know, we have code and we have database queries that live in our sheet. You can always pull your data out, of course. You could select any area on the sheet and get a CSV or get another file, but you can'…”

“When you can have users sign up and just prompt it, just drop some data in and say, help me analyze this, help me visualize it. The learning curve went to zero and the adoption increased tremendously.”

“We support millions of rows.”

“We are working on fine tuning a model. We think we can get the costs of inference way down and the quality and specific, you know, AI working in a spreadsheet is not really what these models were trained to do, right? There's a lot of two D positioning code er…”

“We tried to give it the whole sheet as the context initially, and it works really great when you're working on a really small sheet. And then if you know, drag and drop a 100,000 rows of data in, first of all, it's going to be really expensive. Your request is…”

“Everything in Quadratic is running in WebAssembly in the browser, and then the whole sheet is drawn in WebGL.”

“We do a little bit of vision when users are creating charts. We pass back an image of what the chart looks like to the AI, because a lot of times the user will describe visually the change that they want to the chart. They'll say something like, this doesn't l…”

“Building a spreadsheet is, is very tough too, because people expect it to have all the features of Excel, right? And that's a really, and all the bugs of Excel in some cases, Excel has all these bugs that people rely on. Date bugs and formula bugs that are now…”