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Bajaj: Krutrim effectively combines OpenAI, Nvidia, and AWS into one startup
“Krutrim is one of them. So ambitious. You know, it is effectively open AI plus Nvidia plus your Microsoft or AWS all in one, right?”
Mehra: Anthropic and OpenAI will steamroll standalone developer tooling startups
“The parts which I think I would say we are less excited about. Is generally things around the SDLC right now. Because the challenges in SDLC, you're in the way of anthropic and open AI. So hard to underwrite anything on what direction they'll take. And honestl…”
Krishnan: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models are within a hair's breadth of parity
“I do think these you know, models of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have definitely gotten to the point where they are within a sort of hair's breadth of each other, ultimately. Yes, there are the, in domain A, one model might be better, in domain B, the other mode…”
Nair: Anthropic leads in coding but lags behind in imaging and reasoning
“For example, coding. Anthropic has gotten the best model. Now, OpenAI is trying to catch up. But when it comes to reasoning definitely OpenAI models and Google models are better. Imaging like Anthropic sucks.”
Nair: OpenAI's Frontier framework could wipe out enterprise semantic software
“That Frontier framework is, to me, one of the most exciting framework for the intranet. Because it actually talks about context and semantic layer in a way that if you get it right, it will wipe out a whole suite of products out there, because it is the best a…”
Dash: OpenAI and Anthropic could go public tomorrow based on financials
“They're almost quasi public companies. They could go public tomorrow based on the financials that we're seeing.”
Dash: OpenAI and Anthropic will stop hosting model launch parties by 2028
“Do we think in three years, OpenAI and Anthropic are going to keep doing launch parties for each model? No, at that point, it's just going to be a product release, right? And you're not going to see behind the scenes which model is it five, is it 15, is it 25,…”
Kompalli: OpenAI and Anthropic will never offer direct brand optimization services
“So I don't think an open AI or an anthropic will ever go to Nike and say, I will help you win. Because that's unfair.”
Ahluwalia: Domain institutional knowledge will surpass frontier AI models
“In, in my view, where a startup can at least have a path to a hundred million in revenue, and this is still theoretical here to get played out in practice, just from observations from our portfolio company executing, is institutional knowledge in your domain w…”
Garg: Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI lead the consumer AI battle
“Ah, but really when you think about the players today, I think the three contenders today are really Anthropic, Google, And OpenAI, and I think Microsoft and Meta are sort of fast followers, ah, and Apple is the dark horse.”
Garg: OpenAI has pivoted into a consumer and prosumer applications company
“So, OpenAI has pivoted from being a developer-focused company to being a consumer and prosumer-focused applications company.”
Namasivayam: Transformer models miss edge-case opinions by defaulting to population averages
“Transformer models, OpenAI, is great at providing feedback on the average, but it doesn't cover the edge cases. Or the edge cases of your opinions. So that's the problem. So ChatGPT is good at persona feedback. It kind of averages it across the population. But…”
Sanghi: OpenAI retains moats over DeepSeek in benchmarks and bias reduction
“In some benchmarks deep, deep seek is equal or better. And, but in a lot of benchmarks, open AI is still better because open AI also gives you this They've got the team of people that, you know, work towards reducing biases, et cetera. So they've done a lot of…”
Ahluwalia: Sam Altman told Indian founders not to attempt competing with OpenAI
“Two years ago, Sam Altman came to India. Rajan and then asked him question, can a startup from India compete with open AI? He said, it's not possible. Don't even attempt it.”
Ahluwalia: OpenAI's Team Is Divided on Whether to Achieve AGI
“And when they started OpenAI, the goal was to achieve AGI. And now everybody in the team is divided on whether we should achieve AGI or not.”
Krishnan: Turing began helping OpenAI train models in early 2022
“This whole thing started when yeah, when we started helping OpenAI you know, A little over about four years ago, like, since from early 20, 20 to long before chat GPT launched and the that is how we got started in this particular area.”
OpenAI partnered with Turing to teach GPT-3 coding and tool use
“OpenAI came to us when they were training GPT-III and they wanted to teach GPT-III to code. So we collaborated with them on teaching the models to code and to do tool use, function calling”
Saxena: Anthropic and OpenAI are moving into services
“Anthropic and open AI and everyone wants to get into the services business. It's just areas that you didn't think they'd get into.”
Ambati: AI infrastructure spending is now driven primarily by inference
“The whole big bet of open AI, you know, trying to build these target and other You know, big data centers is not that they just want to train on this, because that cost is a one-time cost, right? So you train ones, you sort of run inference for a lifetime. So …”
Kumari: Merlin AI bypassed market education because OpenAI established AI's value
“We did not have to do a lot of convincing when it came to AI, because I would say OpenAI did a great job there. People understand the value.”
Dübendorfer: Top co-founded startup generates $70M revenue serving OpenAI and Uber
“Currently not, no, they're still all there, and the biggest one has 300 employees makes seventy million revenues with a SaaS model, and serves the likes of OpenAI, and Uber, and Nasdaq, and UPS in brand management”
Reddy: Silicon Graphics was the 1990s equivalent of OpenAI and Nvidia
“And Silicon Graphics at that time was what the open AI of today is. Yes. Nvidia, open AI, any one of those”
Agarwal: A bot attack drained Pepper's monthly AWS budget in one day
“We had an attack one day where we ended up spending our month's AWS bill in just one day on OpenAI because we had a bot attack happen on us.”
Kamath: Smallest AI raised pre-seed funding from OpenAI personnel
“So some of our investors in like our pre-seed words from OpenAI as I spoke to them, they are building a different kind of intelligence.”