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Isenberg: AI Apps Owning Workflows and Network Effects Will Be Highly Valuable
“I think that you're discounting the opportunity that there is to actually create these, as you call it, flash in the pan apps to actually get data, to actually own the workflow, to actually create network effects. And I think that that those companies Provided…”
Isenberg: Top AI wrappers will survive OpenAI updates within 18 months
“There's, of course, going to be a bunch of startups that get hit by OpenAI and the foundational models in 12 to 18 months, but I think that, you know, the great AI wrappers are going to build valuable companies.”
Shipper predicts OpenAI and Anthropic launch agent app stores within a year
“And I bet you within a year the opening eyes in the anthropics of the world will have app stores for apps that are built specifically to be used inside of these services. Maybe even cursor too. I don't have any insight on any of this.”
Wilkinson: Anthropic and OpenAI will soon launch AI CEO products
“My, I mean, my kind of belief is like pretty soon Anthropic and OpenAI are gonna launch like basically like CEOs. So you just be like, I'm just gonna hire a CEO for my company. Give me your data. I'll figure it out. I'll run it. I'll run the whole business.”
Liu: OpenAI and Anthropic have over $80 billion in combined revenue
“Take opening Ionanthropic alone, right? Let's just say they have a combined revenue probably of like eighty million plus, right? Or eighty billion, sorry, plus right now up from like basically zero a few years ago.”
Riley Brown: OpenAI consolidated efforts to integrate Atlas browser inside Codex
“Well, recently they had like this big red alert at their company, and they decided to kind of push all of their efforts into one single app, which was Codex. And now what they're doing is they're just putting Atlas inside. They're basically putting Atlas insid…”
Brown: Codex beats Claude Desktop by unifying coding and coworking tools
“Another way that I like to think about this is Claude code or this codex is like Claude code and co-work in a single product, but it's even better than that. And the reason why I like it more than Claude desktop is Claude made a decision to split up co-work an…”
Brown: GPT Image 2 is undeniably the best image model in the world
“Codex has GBT image two, which is the best image model in the world. And again, this is not like up for debate. I'm not, again, I'm really not trying to show anything.”
Moritz Kremb: OpenAI permits OpenClaw OAuth connections while Anthropic officially bans them
“Because OpenAI has stated that they're okay with it. So for them, it's definitely fine to use this OAuth method with Anthropic. It's kind of a gray area a bit. I think officially in their terms of service, it says you're not allowed to do that.”
Sora will shrink six-week agency video productions to under one week
“This is very disruptive to us because it essentially makes our six to eight week timeline down to what, like a week or less once you're able to kind of tweak and the quality gets better, which it will over the next three to six months.”
Courtney: OpenAI o3 Recreated a $35K, 3-Month Whitepaper in 10 Minutes
“We spent. 35,000 dollars to get a white paper created three years ago, which we used in a lot of marketing. Basically we wanted this company to go and research all of these things that were happening in businesses so that we could have all of these crazy quote…”
Isenberg: Autonomous AI browser agents are a historic business arbitrage opportunity
“I think this is one of the greatest arbitrage moments in business that we've ever seen.”
Ross Mike: Using GPT-6 Astra to build landing pages wastes its intelligence
“What makes Astra amazing is for these, like, insane hardware projects, this next level software. So again, if you're using Astra to build a landing page, It's a sad use of intelligence”
Shipper: GPT-5.6 with Codex is best model for knowledge work
“Codex with five, six, which I find to be the most usable, most powerful, fastest model for, specifically for knowledge work and for coding, but like specifically for knowledge work”
Shipper: OpenAI and Anthropic do not really offer fine-tuning anymore
“In that case, like, you have to use open-source models, because none of the major model companies, or at least OpenAnthropic, don't really do fine-tuning anymore.”
Dan Shipper: Anthropic holds 'mandate of heaven' while OpenAI is underrated
“I feel like Anthropic has the, has a little bit of the mandate of heaven right now, and OpenAI is quite underrated.”
Wilkinson: Prompt engineer jobs are unnecessary because AI can interview users directly
“Nobody needs to build the prompts. The AI should just interview you. OpenAI just doesn't want to spend all the compute at this point, but it is fully capable of just interviewing you to figure out what you need.”
Brown: Sora is not the best AI video model right now
“Sora's not the best video model right now, so that's why it's not interesting”
Riley Brown: Codex is the only platform combining vibe coding and knowledge work
“It is the only interface that does vibe coding and knowledge work in one platform.”
Brown: OpenAI's Codex is the most powerful interface for AI agents
“People are going to learn how to use the best interface to use AI agents, in my opinion. I think Codex by OpenAI, and that means if you have a ChatGPT subscription, you have access to Codex, which I think is the most powerful way to use AI agents”
Henry: OpenAI owns OpenClaw and will tighten its security
“I think now OpenAI own OpenClaw. The security is going to get a lot tighter. Things are going to be a lot, lot smoother.”
Isenberg: OpenAI or Anthropic should acquire note-taking app Obsidian
“If I'm open AI or anthropic, I'm buying obsidian.”
Isenberg agrees with Sam Altman: this is the 'idea guy' era
“Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, just said that it is the era of the idea guy, and he is not wrong.”
Isenberg echoes Sam Altman: It is the era of the idea guy
“Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, just said that it is the era of the idea guy, and he is not wrong.”
Nixon: Sora 2 Will Create Multi-Millionaires in the Coming Weeks
“There's going to be millionaires, many, many millionaires minted, multi-millionaires over the next few weeks with messing around with Sora too.”
Isenberg: Sam Altman is right that it is the 'era of the idea guy'
“Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, just said that it is the era of the idea guy, and he is not wrong.”
Isenberg: Sam Altman Is Right That It's Era of the Idea Guy
“Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, just said that it is the era of the idea guy, and he is not wrong.”
Within six months, people will wonder why they ever discussed Manus AI
“I think for, as of recording this, it's underrated, but we're gonna look back on this video in six months and be like,
Why were we talking about madness?”
Isenberg: Tech has entered Sam Altman's 'era of the idea guy'
“Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, just said that it is the era of the idea guy, and he is not wrong.”
Sam Altman predicts 'idea guys' will soon dominate the startup industry
“He just posted on his blog. He says for a long time, technical people in the startup industry Have made fun of idea guys. People who've had an idea and were looking for a team to build it. It now looks to me like they are about to have their day in the sun.”
Pozel: Sora has looser policy guidelines and better photorealism than ChatGPT
“Another really cool thing is I think Sora is better at it's, it has less strict policy guidelines and it's better at photo, photo realism. I don't actually understand why that's the case considering they probably use the same underlying models, but I think tha…”
It is too early to build viable startups on Anthropic's MCP
“I don't think with this MCP stuff, we're at a place where any shots can be fired that make any smart business decision, but this is one of those things where you just, you sit and you watch and you're just observing and learning. And when the right thing at th…”
Koerner: OpenAI Operator's $200/month price is unjustified for 99% of users
“I think it's overpriced if you don't know what you're doing. Like if you don't, like, really like any software, right? You've got to invest time into it. And I think that's the hard part with 99% of people is they don't yet have ideas, which is why they're wat…”
Moura: OpenAI's o1-mini struggles with agents by avoiding external tools
“Honestly, O one mini in my experience for agentic behaviors, sometimes falls short. Just because it already has kind of like chain of thought embedded on it. It tries to basically like Figure out everything itself without using any tools and kind of like outsm…”
Kahl: OpenAI and Anthropic are structurally constrained from optimizing niche tasks
“Like OpenAI, Anthropic, all of these players, they have to have models available that can do everything well. So they can't really have models that do one thing specifically, specifically well, right?”
Coogan: Stolen AI Model Weights Are Far More Usable Than Web Codebases
“If you stole the code base to Facebook, And you were like, okay, I have all the code to Facebook. I'm going to launch Facebook to.com. Well, you don't have any of the users. People aren't going to your website. It's not valuable, but with the large language mo…”
Isenberg: Claude is currently 30% better than ChatGPT
“No it's honestly, 30% better. Like, every answer you get is 30% better. So, the thing is, ChatGPT was better, and then Clode recently caught up. Now ChatGPT is getting better, but right now, as we're recording this, Clode is where you want to be.”
Isenberg would fund AI wrappers for profit share, not equity
“Would I invest in something like this? Like absolutely. Just knowing that there's risks and the way I would invest wouldn't be like, I want equity. It would be like, Hey, I want like a profit share of this thing.”
AI wrappers survive because platforms like OpenAI must design for average users
“Shopify has to make millions and millions and millions of users happy. So they're designing towards the middle. They're designing towards the average. But if you're building a custom GPT or you're building a quote unquote chat GPT wrapper, you can afford to ma…”
OpenAI's Custom GPTs currently fail at execution and content creation
“Custom GPTs right now are not great at execution or content creation at all.”
Smith: OpenAI has reached $1 billion in enterprise revenue
“There's the reason that OpenAI has a billion dollars in enterprise revenue today. Out of nowhere, quote unquote, out of nowhere.”
Nickson: Building on ChatGPT carries excessive platform risk
“ChatGPT, I feel like every update, it gets neutered a little more and more and more and more. So like, as a builder, I feel a little bit, I don't know if I'd want to build on ChatGPT, right? They have too much leverage. It's too much platform risk.”
Rogenmoser: OpenAI's Shift Toward Closedness Causes Rifts With Developers
“I think at least the kind of PR around and comms around them being open, but increasingly more closed, like definitely causes a rift in the developer communities and AI communities”
Isenberg: Niche AI apps present a massive five-year opportunity for builders
“OpenAI and Google isn't gonna figure out themselves how to build every niche AI-based product, right? They're, and they don't wanna do that. So I think there's gonna be a huge opportunity over the next five years to, like, go and build a seven-figure AI first …”
Postma: OpenAI confirmed Headlime was the first live product on its API
“I was one of the first to build a product like that and go live with it. I got a screenshot from OpenAI saying I'm the first developer to actually go live with a product.”
Isenberg: Zapier is underrated because it will capture value from OpenAI
“And I think that's why, despite Zapier being a billion dollar plus company, I actually think it's underrated. All the focus is being put on, you know, open AI, twenty billion dollar plus valuation. When I think you have to look around open AI and ask yourself,…”
Dan Shipper: People Underestimate Codex's Multi-Agent Orchestration
“I think that people are sleeping on how, Flexible and powerful of a tool this is. Because, okay, so it's got the image model in it, and then it also has the ability, like it has the ability to change other threads. So, like, I can have this thread message anot…”