ChatGPT

includes ChatGPT Deep Research, ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Plugins

29 statements across 26 episodes · 14 bullish · 4 bearish · 25 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2023 by Sridhar Ramaswamy · said 247 times in 106 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Elad Gil (49), Sarah Guo (35), Jensen Huang (11), Sal Khan (9), Matei Zaharia (8), Emad Mostaque (8), Misha Laskin (5), Winston Weinberg (4)

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Everything said about ChatGPT, oldest first

Apr 25, 2023 neutral
Insight
Ramaswamy: Monetizing Answer-Focused AI Interfaces with Ads Is Much Harder
“If you're in the business of providing answers like ChatGPT was ads just becomes a whole lot harder to do. They're really, you're just you know, you're betting on the quality of answers”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 26:21 No Priors Ep. 8 | With Neeva’s Sridhar Ramaswamy
Apr 25, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Srinivas: Perplexity grounds even conversational identity queries in web search
“In fact, it's more like a citation first service that it'll never say anything that it cannot say. So if you, if people have tried to play with it as if it's like chat GPT where like, tell me who are you or like things like that. And even for those questions, …”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 17:16 No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
Apr 25, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Zaharia: Nearly 1,000 Databricks customers used LLMs before ChatGPT
“I think we had like almost a thousand customers that were using these in, in some form”
Matei Zaharia Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 4:59 No Priors Ep. 11 | With Matei Zaharia, CTO of Databricks
May 3, 2023 bullish
Prediction Held up
ChatGPT-Level AI Models Will Run Locally on Smartphones by 2028
“You will see ChatGPT level models running on the edge on smartphones in five years, which will be crazy.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 44:38 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
May 24, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
ChatGPT launched as a 10-month-old model with RLHF as a practice test
“ChatGPT was a 10 month old model with a little bit of RLHF on top of it. And, you know, like by, you know, admission, like You know, not a beautiful user interface. It was just sort of a way to get something out there because you know, you needed some practice…”
Kevin Scott May 24, 2023 ▶ 28:03 No Priors Ep. 18 | With Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft
Aug 30, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Rauch: ChatGPT and Character.ai are in the top 1,000 most-trafficked websites
“For example, in the top 1000, you already have ChatGPT and Character.ai. They're in the top 1000 most trafficked websites of the public internet, so to speak.”
Guillermo Rauch Aug 30, 2023 ▶ 23:46 No Priors Ep. 30 | With Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch
Aug 30, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Rauch: Vercel and Next.js power ChatGPT, Under Armour, and Nintendo
“In fact, it's powered by Next.js, our open source framework to websites like underarmor.com or Nintendo, where we provide the infrastructure to serve All their traffic and help them iterate on their web presence.”
Guillermo Rauch Aug 30, 2023 ▶ 0:53 No Priors Ep. 30 | With Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch
Jan 24, 2024
Insight
Chen: The Bar for a Robotics ChatGPT Moment Is Higher Than Pure Software
“So I would say, like, the bar for the chat GPT moment for robotics is higher. Like, you need to solve the generality, like, which is the same kind of problem, but you need to solve it with high level of reliability.”
Peter Chen Jan 24, 2024 ▶ 33:51 No Priors Ep. 48 | With Covariant CEO Peter Chen
Jan 31, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Coates: Perplexity sits exactly between ChatGPT's interface and Google's search
“The sort of the triangle of like perplexity, Google, ChatGPT of like, it's basically like LLM native search and like ChatGPT really good at the LLM interface thing, not amazing at search yet. Google amazing at search, not really figured out the LLM thing yet. …”
Glen Coates Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 32:05 No Priors Ep. 49 | With Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates
Mar 7, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Guo: ChatGPT cannot design a DNA sequence expressing CRISPR-Cas9
“As a task, for example, if you ask ChatGPT to design a DNA sequence that can express Prisper Cas- nine, it can't do that yet, right?”
Sarah Guo Mar 7, 2024 ▶ 8:56 No Priors Ep. 54 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
May 23, 2024 positive
Opinion
Tan: Calling AI Startups ChatGPT Wrappers Is Like Calling SaaS MySQL Wrappers
“ChatGPT wrapper thing is actually just wrong. It's like saying that all of SaaS and cloud are basically, you know, MySQL wrappers. It doesn't make any sense.”
Garry Tan May 23, 2024 ▶ 12:48 No Priors Ep 66 | With Y Combinator President and CEO Garry Tan
Jun 20, 2024 positive
Disclosure
HeyGen video translation pipeline combines lip-sync, voice cloning, and ChatGPT
“One example would be when we look at, you know, the video translation technology is you know, it's a whole new way to translate a content compared to traditional dubbing. We preserve the user the natural voice and their facial expression. But if you look at re…”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 15:57 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Aug 22, 2024 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Davis: OpenAI Had 400 Employees and $13B of Compute When Launching ChatGPT
“In OpenAI's case, you know, there were only 400 people, but had thirteen billion dollars worth of compute, you know, which is quite a bit of computational scale there.”
Jared Quincy Davis Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 1:29 No Priors Ep. 77 | With Foundry CEO and Founder Jared Quincy Davis
Nov 7, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Huang: ChatGPT is largely inferenced on same systems used for training
“And most of ChatGPT I believe are inferenced on the same type of systems that we're trained on just recently.”
Jensen Huang Nov 7, 2024 ▶ 7:59 No Priors Ep. 89 | With NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
Nov 7, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
Jensen Huang: I don't learn anything without first consulting AI
“I don't learn anything without first going to an AI, you know. Why learn the hard way? Just go directly to an AI. I go directly to ChatGPT or, you know, sometimes I do perplexity just depending on just the formulation of my questions, and I just start learning…”
Jensen Huang Nov 7, 2024 ▶ 35:47 No Priors Ep. 89 | With NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
Nov 21, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Cohere Will Not Build a Direct ChatGPT Competitor
“We're not going to build a ChatGPT competitor. What we want to build is a platform and a series of products to enable enterprises to adopt this technology and make it valuable.”
Aidan Gomez Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 4:28 No Priors Ep. 91 | With Cohere Co-Founder and CEO Aidan Gomez
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Insight
Weinberg: Intuition for AI progress comes from hammering models through failures
“It seems like there was this large gap between I log into ChatGPT or I just use GPT-IV from an API or whatever it is, and I try something a couple times versus I'm going to sit there and just hammer on this until it works, right? and I think if you do that …”
Winston Weinberg Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 6:00 No Priors Ep. 101 | With Harvey CEO and Co-Founder Winston Weinberg
Feb 14, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weinberg: AI will produce specialized ChatGPT-level breakthroughs in coding and medicine
“I think we will end up seeing work completion done in very sophisticated manners, like in medicine and in coding, like a lot in coding and a lot also in, you know, other areas too, that will kind of bring us back to the chat GBT moment, but it will be speciali…”
Winston Weinberg Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 46:25 No Priors Ep. 101 | With Harvey CEO and Co-Founder Winston Weinberg
May 1, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Mitchell: OpenAI plans to unify models and remove the ChatGPT switcher
“You know, I think for us, like unification of our models is something that, you know, Sam has talked about publicly that, you know, we have this big crazy model switcher in ChatGPT and there are a lot of choices and you know, we have a model that might be good…”
Eric Mitchell May 1, 2025 ▶ 5:24 No Priors Ep. 113 | With OpenAI's Eric Mitchell and Brandon McKinzie
Aug 7, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2030
Prince: Smartphones will soon run local models matching current ChatGPT
“It is not particularly long before you're running something which is the equivalent of kind of the current generation of ChatGPT on your iPhone or your, or at your Android device.”
Matthew Prince Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 38:17 No Priors Ep. 126 | With Cloudfare CEO Matthew Prince
Aug 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Helberg: DeepSeek lied about compute capacity and distilled ChatGPT weights
“The main takeaways of how DeepSeq achieved the performance its performance was Incremental efficiency gains. They lied about their compute capacity because they have a billion dollar cluster, and they distilled ChatGPT's model weights.”
Jacob Helberg Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 23:52 No Priors Ep. 129 | With U.S. Under Secretary of State (E) Designate Jacob Helberg
Sep 5, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Nadler: OpenEvidence used AI citations months before ChatGPT
“We were actually providing references and, Citations six months or nine months before ChatGPT started doing that.”
Daniel Nadler Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 8:23 No Priors Ep. 130 | With OpenEvidence Founder Daniel Nadler
Sep 18, 2025
Opinion
Zhang: Most OpenAI revenue and margin comes from ChatGPT, not API
“I think OpenAI, for example, most of their revenue and most of their margin for sure is coming from ChatGPT and the application layer, because you actually own the customer”
Jesse Zhang Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 17:54 No Priors Ep. 132 | With Decagon CEO and Co-Founder Jesse Zhang
Sep 25, 2025 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Liemandt: 90% of Students Given ChatGPT in School Will Use It to Cheat
“If you give kids ChatGPT in school and academics, 90% will use it for cheating.”
Joe Liemandt Sep 25, 2025 ▶ 51:21 No Priors Ep. 133 | With Alpha School Principal Joe Liemandt
Oct 23, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lloyd: OpenAI Will Subsume Best ChatGPT Apps Using Platform Data
“I don't know if you saw OpenAI Dev Day yesterday, but they're clearly doing this platform play within ChatGPT now where it's like you have apps within ChatGPT. I'm sure they'll use that data to Sort of subsume or take over whatever the best first party integra…”
Zach Lloyd Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 22:03 No Priors Ep. 137 | With Warp Co-Founder & CEO Zach Lloyd
Nov 13, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Wickramasekara: Biology AI has powerful models but lacks a ChatGPT-like interface
“I think we're like, we've got GPT, but there's no chat. Like, that, that's kind of how I think about it. Like, I think the chat, and I mean chat metaphorically, like, that was the interface that made things really take off in, in software. And I don't think it…”
Sajith Wickramasekara Nov 13, 2025 ▶ 21:37 No Priors Ep. 140 | With Benchling Co-Founder and CEO Sajith Wickramasekara
Jan 8, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Huang: Digital biology is poised for its 'ChatGPT moment'
“But the basic architecture that in combination with breakthroughs and synthetic data generation is going to help create the chat GPT moment for digital biology. That moment is coming.”
Jensen Huang Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 44:05 NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang on Reasoning Models, Robotics, and Refuting the “AI Bubble” Narrative
Mar 20, 2026 positive
Opinion
Karpathy: Claude feels like a teammate, whereas Codex coding agent is dry
“I actually think Claude has a pretty good personality. It feels like a teammate and it's excited with you, et cetera. I would say for example, Codex is a lot more dry which is kind of interesting because in Chashi PT, Codex is like a lot more upbeat and highly…”
Andrej Karpathy Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 8:10 Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI
Apr 3, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fedus: John Schulman steered OpenAI toward a general chatbot over narrow tools
“And we're all spitballing ideas, like writing bot coding bot. You know, very natural at the time. Some of our least interesting ideas were a meeting bot, so it would just sit in a Google Meet, take notes, and then send out, like, to-dos after. But John Schulma…”
Liam Fedus Apr 3, 2026 ▶ 4:34 AI for Atoms: How Periodic Labs is Revolutionizing Materials Engineering with Co-Founder Liam Fedus
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