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Shaan Puri: DeepSeek outperformed OpenAI models without access to top-tier chips
“You ever heard of DeepSeek? They were in the news recently, created that big algorithm, didn't even have access to the best chips, and somehow outperformed all of the OpenAI models.”
DeepMind is the reason OpenAI and ChatGPT exist
“DeepMind got bought by Google, and DeepMind is basically Google's AI play, and the DeepMind team, which was basically a research team that was building AI, is the reason that OpenAI exists. It is the reason that ChatGPT exists. It is the reason Elon is interes…”
Puri: Sora will be the fastest app to reach 100M downloads
“I think this is going to be the most downloaded app in the history of the world in a short period of time. So I think it'll be like the fastest to get to a hundred million downloads.”
Sam Parr: OpenAI will be the biggest company on Earth within five years
“Because how is this company not going to take over the world and be the biggest company on earth?”
Sam Parr: OpenAI will combine Meta, Google, and the news media
“I just think that OpenAI is going to be, like, the combination of Facebook, Google, every news company ever, and then, like, five other companies combined into one.”
Lemkin: Enterprise AI software will shock users within 24 months
“This is why your jaw is going to drop over the next 24 months, because just mediocre engineers cannot, like the engineers at OpenAI are so good. They're just so good. And so, but the average engineer working at a struggling CRM, right, it's just not that, that…”
Rydhan: Google's failure to lead in LLMs is a lifetime-scale fumble
“I think the biggest fumble
You know, in our lifetime.
Decade fumble.
Yeah.
They built the technology for Transformers.
Right.
The thing that OpenAI and others have used to develop this large language model, they are the ones that were the first entry and like …”
Puri: OpenAI is Google's first credible competitor in 20 years
“It's the first credible Google competitor in about 20 years. It is something that actually could displace, replace search”
Puri: Voice AI startups like ElevenLabs are vulnerable to foundation models
“These companies that do voice, text-to-voice, so like, you know, 11 Labs is one, PlayHT is another, it's like, basically they're like, we're better than, like, we can do AI, you type in a thing, and we can create a human-sounding AI, and we're going to fine-tu…”
Puri: Musk Will Lose OpenAI Lawsuit but Win the PR War
“He's gonna lose the legal battle, but he's gonna win the PR war, I think.”
Parr: OpenAI will crush startups building on its API
“I'm nervous about people building businesses right now on top of open AI because I'm like, they're just going to crush everyone and just do it themselves.”
Shah: OpenAI is the startup most likely to reach $1T valuation
“It, it'd be up there in the top three. I honestly can't think of who else would rank higher in terms of probability of getting to that.”
Sam Parr: OpenAI will face government regulation in 2023
“The second thing is so open, I open AI. Something involving regulation is going to happen.”
Puri: OpenAI and Anthropic will leave Suno uncontested for now
“I kind of think Suna's gonna go uncontested for a little while,
[1352] longer where it's not the main thing that open AI or anthropic is going to try to roll out and make mainstream.”
Puri: Musk invested $50M in OpenAI but retained zero ownership
“OpenAI, open source AI that's, you know, a non-profit, and now it's a for-profit closed source company, and he funded fifty million dollars and now owns none of it.”
Parr: OpenAI Sora is already better than TikTok
“This is 100%, I think better than TikTok, actually. I think it's better than TikTok. And it's, this is V-one.”
Liu: AI voice models will feel genuinely human within two years
“It's still not there yet, because it doesn't feel right. I mean, if you just talk to it, like, it doesn't feel like a human, but I think that will be a frontier that we just, we pass or across in the next year or two.”
Parr: Dharmesh Shah sold Chat.com to OpenAI for ~$15M equity
“He owned chat.com, which he sold to OpenAI for what he paid for it, which I think was around fifteen million, and he got AI ChatGPT stock.”
Puri: OpenAI sought SoftBank funding at a $240B-$250B valuation
“They just, they were just trying to raise from Massa and SoftBank. At a two hundred fifty billion dollar value. Two hundred fifty billion dollar, two hundred forty billion dollar valuation.”
Puri: AI tools will drive a surge in solo startup founders
“Dude, people are just gonna replace their co-founder with this, right? Like you're gonna see a lot more solo founders because You could just have an AI co-founder.”
Rydhan: OpenAI and Anthropic are clearly number one and two in AI
“And actually, it feels like open AI, number one, that's, I think, clear. I think Anthropic is number two. So then everyone else shows up. Is what it feels like to me, at least from people I'm seeing building or the technology they're using or the innovation th…”
Puri: GPT-5 will drive transcription prices to zero, threatening Rev.com
“Guess what's going to be better than the human transcribers? GPT-V. It's going to be awesome, and it's going to be way cheaper than Rev.com. It's going to, like, drive your price to zero and be better. So that's like, Rev.com is in trouble.”
Pompliano: Joining OpenAI or Anduril offers 2x to 5x upside, not 10x
“OpenAI and Anduril, I think, are both at this point where if you go and you join, like, you may be able to make a couple 100,000 dollars a year, and, like, there's probably some upside, but OpenAI at, like, eighty-five billion dollars, basically, you have to b…”
Puri: Musk funded OpenAI with $44 million over five years
“And so in 2016, he gives them fifteen million. In 2017, he gives them twenty million. In that five year period, he gives them forty four million dollars in total.”
Sean Puri: OpenAI would not exist without Elon Musk's early AI concerns
“It's clear that opening. I wouldn't have even would not have existed. It would not have been successful had he not genuinely had this fear and concern and belief about what needs to happen with AI long time ago.”
Puri predicts Nadella's OpenAI comments will become problematic for Microsoft
“And this quote, I think is going to become very problematic. I predict it's going to become very problematic for Microsoft in the future.”
Puri: Perplexity and secondary AI startups are overvalued hype bets
“I'm not really a believer in that. I think those get way ahead of the skis and I just seen that story many times. This happened in crypto. This happened in you know, when mobile was happening and you would get, you know, for every Instagram, you would then get…”
Shaan Puri: Y Combinator Is Probably the Most Successful Tech Startup
“Paul Graham, who created YC, which is, I think probably the most successful tech startup actually, because it created sure all these other tech startups and like I created Dropbox and it created Airbnb. They probably wouldn't like to say created, but like they…”
Shkreli: Google and Meta had OpenAI-equivalent tech years ago but missed productization
“Both Facebook and Google had sort of equivalent technology to open AI, in my opinion, years ago, and they just still just haven't sort of seen the actual product, you know, making sense and launching.”
Shah: GPT-3 and GPT-4 are reasoning engines, not knowledge bases
“GPT three and now four is, is a reasoning engine. And Sam Altman has talked about this. It's not a knowledge base where it's like, and so people kind of latch on to this fact that, oh, the data that it has is from September, 20, 21, then I'm going to teach you…”
Parr: I use OpenAI for therapy three hours a day
“I'm like, dude, I use open for therapy three hours a day.”
Lemkin: ChatGPT holds 85% market share among consumers and prosumers
“I don't think we realized that open, that chat GBT would have 85% market share at the prosumer consumer level.”
Lemkin: OpenAI has only ~60% employee retention over two years
“They only have about 60% employee retention over two years.”
Puri: Musk funded over $40M into OpenAI and owns zero equity
“He funded the first 40 something million dollars into opening eye when it was a nonprofit and he owns nothing of the for profit today.”
Parr: Dharmesh Shah bought a $10M domain to get OpenAI shares
“Well, I mean, Dharmesh had to buy a ten million dollar domain and then convince them to buy it in order to become a shareholder.”
Puri: OpenAI is valued at $103B and generating $3.5B annual revenue
“OpenAI currently valued at one hundred and three billion. It's doing about three and a half billion a year in revenue already.”
Fried: Building AI wrappers on OpenAI creates extreme platform risk
“All the companies that began to implement AI stuff early on and then open AI is just like wiped them out in a lot of ways for a lot of different reasons. And when you build other people's platforms, you're very, very much at risk of things changing, tectonic p…”
Puri: Every major OpenAI release wipes out a wave of AI startups
“There's just swarms that they're all going to get just like wiped out. Every GPT release wipes out a whole wave of like, even the successful ones. Cause it's like, oh, now that's just a feature of chat GPT.”
Shah: Building LLMs is uniquely capital-intensive for software
“Building large language models as OpenAI is doing is, is like supremely capital intensive, which is rare for a Software company, which is what they are.”
Puri: OpenAI built an internal service to triage and remove bureaucracy
“So they created what they call the friction removal service and sort of like A doge idea inside the company, but it's actually very simple, which is there's an email inbox called friction at open AI.com. And you could just email friction with anything that's c…”
Sam Parr: ChatGPT Pro Pulse costs $100–$200/month for personalized news
“I think it's one or 200 dollars a month, but yeah basically like I tell it what I'm into or it gets to know me. And every day when I wake up now, I mean, I'm on chat all day. Anyway, now in the morning I pull up pulse and it's sort of like my newsfeed, except …”
Puri: OpenAI hit 100M users in 3 months and $3B revenue in 3 years
“So it took him, you know, two or three months to reach a hundred million users. It's five times faster growing than the next fastest product ever. It reached three billion in revenue in the last, you know, in like three years”
Jasper reached over $50M in ARR in its first year
“Yeah, but they built a company that like got to one of the fastest growing companies I've ever seen. Like getting ARR over fifty million dollars in one year is like insane.”
Puri: Use ChatGPT for default, Perplexity for facts, o1 for analysis
“Yeah, it is my, like, default, and then, you know, I play with everything else, so usually if I'm like, how factually correct does this need to be, I'll perplexity, so I go to perplexity.
If it's analysis, I'll use ChappieCPU, like, have you used, like, the O-…”