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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.”
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.”
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: 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: 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.”
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.”
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.”
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 …”