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Building surface-level AI chatbots and copilots will not drive extra software subscriptions
“We didn't build a chatbot. We didn't build a co-pilot. We didn't build any of these surface level obvious capabilities. We're gonna build them. They'll be in there at some point. Who cares? It's not gonna sell a single extra subscription of software.”
Matt MacInnis Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 22:46 No Priors Ep. 83 | With Rippling COO Matt MacInnis
Opinion
Gil: AI coding market has consolidated into a few key players
“Encoding, it seems like it's consolidated into two or three players. You know, maybe that's Cursor, Codium, Cognition, and then Microsoft, Microsoft's like Copilot, right? But there aren't probably like two dozen companies that are all still competing there.”
Elad Gil May 29, 2025 ▶ 1:15 No Priors Ep. 116 | With Sarah and Elad
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wickramasekara: Large pharma is piloting AI without organizational transformation yet
“Most of the Large pharma at this point that I've worked with, like, you know, they've got co-pilot and things like that, and they're doing a lot of pilots of different technologies, but I haven't seen their orgs transformed yet.”
Sajith Wickramasekara Nov 13, 2025 ▶ 23:14 No Priors Ep. 140 | With Benchling Co-Founder and CEO Sajith Wickramasekara
Insight
Weinberg: Evaluating scoped AI workflows is easier than open-ended copilots
“It's much more scoped, and evaluation is much easier, right? Like, how do you do evaluation on copilot or enterprise GPT, et cetera? That is very difficult. It is much easier to do evaluation if you can do evaluation at each step and make sure that recursively…”
Winston Weinberg Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 13:04 No Priors Ep. 101 | With Harvey CEO and Co-Founder Winston Weinberg
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Srivastava: Most enterprises start AI adoption with developer copilots
“What we're seeing now is that, like, copilots, especially cogen stuff that actually has already made its way into the enterprise. Like, most enterprises we talk to, like, when you say, when you ask them how advanced are you on their AI strategy, they'll tell y…”
Tuhin Srivastava Mar 21, 2024 ▶ 18:49 No Priors Ep 56 | With Baseten CEO and Co-Founder Tuhin Srivastava
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