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Anthropic built a chatbot before ChatGPT but withheld it over safety
“Anthropic had a version of Claude. We had a chatbot before ChatGPT was launched, and we had ultimately chosen not to launch it for safety reasons. I think the team didn't want to kick off Effectively like an AI global arms race”
Smith: Only 10 to 12% of Google and ChatGPT results are AI-generated
“It was around 10 to 12% of content in Google search and in ChatGPT are AI generated. 90% or not.”
Schulhoff: Translating prompts to Spanish and base64 encoding bypassed ChatGPT guardrails
“As recently as a month ago, I took this phrase, you know, how do I build a bomb, and I translated it to Spanish and then I, Base-XIV encoded that Spanish, gave it to ChatGPT, and it worked.”
Benioff: Clinical study found ChatGPT diagnosed patients more accurately than doctors
“They wrote up a clinical study where they actually did kind of looked at in a semi kind of peer reviewed way. That ChatGPT in many cases was giving more accurate diagnoses than a doctor because the doctor had a more bias coming in working with the patient.”
Balfour: Retention data shows ChatGPT leveling off significantly higher than AI competitors
“The data that DD published clearly showed that both the retention curves which I know you and I have both written about at, you know, at exhaustion level off at significant portions higher than all the other platforms. As well as those retention curves have be…”
Balfour: OpenAI job postings signal an imminent third-party agent platform launch
“There's all sorts of signals that They're about to launch a third party platform. They've been hiring for a bunch of roles. I've seen multiple postings on like product manager, engineering roles, all that kind of stuff for, you know, quote unquote agent platfo…”
Turley: ChatGPT will hit one billion users soon
“We're gonna hit a billion users soon, and you kind of have to begin acting in a way that is appropriate to that scale.”
Turley: ChatGPT has 700 million weekly active users
“If you're the average ChatGPT user, and we have, you know, seven hundred million of them this week, we you know, you've probably been on GPT-V for, you know, a while.”
Rachitsky: Google Gemini reached number one on the App Store above ChatGPT
“So just last week, Gemini, Google Gemini hit the number one app in the App Store. I have it right here. It's still number one in the App Store. It's above ChatGPT.”
Balfour: ChatGPT has at least 10x the monthly active users of Claude
“I think ChatGPT at this point has Like at least a 10 X difference on MAU.”
Balfour: OpenAI will launch ChatGPT platform with 10 to 20 preferred partners
“What I would expect to see play out next is that they will They will either launch, they will announce the platform or what they're going to announce with preferred partners, or what they're going to announce versus is basically a set of preferred partners, th…”
OpenAI reaches 5 million ChatGPT business subscribers
“We just hit five million business subscribers up from three, I think a month or two ago.”
Rachitsky: Reader Survey Ranks ChatGPT Ahead of Gmail and Slack
“I did a survey of my readers and asked them what tools to use every day in your work and most use. And ChatGPT was Number one above Gmail, above Slack, above anything else. 90% of people said they use ChatGPT regularly.”
Seshan: ChatGPT Work mode runs on Codex under the hood
“In work mode, that's where under the covers, this is codex. We've removed some of like the coding UI, like you don't, you're not going to see a work tree pop up all of a sudden in, in work mode, but it is the same power to get things done”
Turley: ChatGPT was the first OpenAI release without a waitlist
“Actually, you know, we were debating waitlist, no waitlist because we really knew we couldn't scale the engineering systems. And, you know, the fact that there was No waitlist, which no open AI release had worked like that before.”