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Rabois: Homebuyers should replace real estate agents with ChatGPT
“Instead of using a real estate agent, there's no reason they can't use ChatGPT or an equivalent product.”
Randle: Model commoditization will not kill OpenAI because users love ChatGPT
“I don't think it's like a death knell for them because, you know, it's like, again, like most of the users of ChatGPT would use ChatGPT whether or not it was a GPT model in there or not. Like they like the product.”
Agrawal: Fast shipping velocity is OpenAI's primary defensibility
“Keeping up with OpenAI product updates is a full-time job, and that's the strategy, is ship fast. And I feel like that done at a consistent pace, I mean, just in, just this year alone, you've had Operator and Deep Research and ChatGPT agents and Codex, and the…”
Agrawal: ChatGPT's User Base Is 10x Larger Than All Rivals Combined
“If you took the user count of ChatGPT on one side,
And all the other AI apps on the other side, let's do perplexity, and Claude, and Croc, and Gemini, and you know, long tail of apps that people use. Add them all up, multiplied by 10, it's probably still less …”
Barton: Google and OpenAI Pay Reddit ~$50M Annually for Training Data
“I think it's ballpark, fifty million dollars. For Google, so Google pays Reddit, fifty million dollars a year to kind of, ah, have trained in the past on it, but B, have updated data, and, ah, ChatGPT does the same thing.”
Agrawal: ChatGPT exhibits rare retention 'smile curve' like TikTok and Instagram
“And ChatGPT exhibits a smile curve. The other apps that exhibit smile curves are Instagram, and TikTok.”
Agrawal: ChatGPT Daily Time Spent Exceeds Mainstream Social Apps Like X
“On, in terms of time spent, you know, we've published this analysis. They are far and above time spent per user per day compared to any of the other apps AI apps today. Actually not just AI apps. I, you know, one of the analysis we did is they are now larger t…”
McCormick: Consumer brand equity creates real value in AI despite commoditization
“That is a brand that like, you know, he might be with, like talking to ChatGPT for the rest of his Life, you know, or like some version of it. And so I do think there's real value in brand.”
Tunguz: Consumer AI will surpass one billion users in 2025
“So you're kind of approaching the billion user number in consumer AI. I think we'll definitely surpass that this year.”
Housel: AI transforming society completely may take 10 to 20 years
“It would not be shocking at all if yes, this is like, this is what's going to completely transform the future. But when I say the future, it might mean 10 or 20 years from now. Now things are moving so ridiculously fast. I don't know if you've played with Clau…”
Ramaswamy: ChatGPT has nearly one billion users
“Value is being created by all the users of ChatGPT, nearly a billion of them.”
Clark: Thrive's original OpenAI memo made no mention of ChatGPT
“We looked at our original investment memo. There was no mention of ChatGT in there.”
Rabois says he has started using ChatGPT to write a book
“I have started to play around with ChatGPT to write a book for me.”
Agrawal: ChatGPT's memory feature creates immense switching costs
“Memory in particular, I think adds so much context for your life that switching out of it would be so hard.”
Agrawal: ChatGPT is a personal relationship, not just a product
“ChatGPT is no longer a website. It is no longer a product. It is a relationship that users have with technology similar to the way the relationship that I have with this phone.”
Diamond: Saturn hits #2 in App Store during summer, beating TikTok
“During the summer months, you know, we reach number two on the entire App Store, number one in productivity, ahead of some great tools like ChatGPT and others, TikTok”
Agrawal: I never buy anything over $100 without consulting ChatGPT
“I mean, I don't buy anything above a hundred dollars without consulting chat GPT.”