Ivan Zhao
10 statements across 2 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 15, 2024 by Ivan Zhao · said 4 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Feb 15, 2024 bullish
Zhao: Embeddings and RAG are eliminating the need for manual organization
“I think organization might be, we might be moving away from the organizational world. Why do you need to organize because you can retrieve? Why do you have index? Like index initially are file cabinets and little index are sitting on top of so you can find thi…”
Feb 15, 2024 positive
Feb 15, 2024 neutral
Zhao initially overlooked GPT-3 because it seemed limited to marketing copy
“I personally, I have to admit, I slept on it. On GPT-III, even saw GPT-III, it feels like, what is this thing useful for? It's like, yes, for marketing, for content writing, for creative first draft. Didn't really click for me.”
Feb 15, 2024 neutral
Feb 15, 2024 positive
Feb 15, 2024 positive
Feb 15, 2024
Zhao: AI applications must stay largely familiar to overcome user inertia
“You cannot make something too new. You have to be largely the same and change one thing and two things, right? Virtual ablo. The off-white guys, like, three percent difference. Just push the boundaries so people can accept it, but still also new, right? To me,…”
Feb 15, 2024 bullish
Zhao: AI Language Models Are Driving the Next Software Bundling Wave
“Now the new technology happening is AI language model, and if you build more with it or just think more with it, language model wants information to be one place. Once the endpoints to be connected, so it's easier to, is it hard enough to like a conversion lan…”
Feb 15, 2024 positive
Zhao: Hybrid designers and engineers make superior product trade-offs
“The moment you can, as a designer or as an engineer, you can code, you can design, you can make really interesting trade-offs, right? At the end of the technologies, at least in my opinion, is about trade-offs. What kind of trade-off you can make that unlock n…”
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Simon Last: GPT-4 Proto-Interface Sparked Notion's AI Pivot
“It wasn't until I played with GPT-IV that it became really, really real. So, you know, we, when we got access to it was sort of like a proto-ChatGPT-like interface. And my co-founder Ivan and I both got access, and it was just immediately clear, like, I would …”