GPT-4
also referred to as: gpt-iv
includes GPT 4 Turbo
12 statements across 10 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Dec 6, 2024 by John Coogan · said 126 times in 48 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by John Coogan (68), Flo Crivello (4), Sam Altman (3), Jordi Hays (3), Will Brown (2), Sholto Douglas (2), Packy McCormick (2), Marc Andreessen (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 18 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- The Remarkable AGI Predictions of Daniel Gross
- Meta’s AI Comeback Moment, Claude Mythos | Diet TBPN
- Daniel Gross’ AGI predictions, SpaceX IPO news, Trump takes control of US chip exports | Diet TBPN
- The Secret Economics Controlling OpenAI, Anthropic, and the AI Boom
- Astra Reactions, Jobs Print, Cybercab Launch | Diet TBPN
- Full Interview: Clawdbot’s Peter Steinberger Makes First Public Appearance Since Launch
- Capital One Acquires Brex for $5B, Davos’s $500M business, Apple’s Siri rebuild | Diet TBPN
- X’s $1M Sweepstakes, Ben Affleck’s viral take on AI, Elon sues OpenAI for $134B | Diet TBPN
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 97 mentions in 33 episodes 3 per episode
- How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
- DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
- Sam Altman on Sora, Social Media, The Future of AI, and More
- Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- What AI and LEGO Have in Common | Flo Crivello on TBPN April 7th
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence
- Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
- 25 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 11 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about GPT-4, oldest first
Dec 6, 2024 positive
Coogan: Ramp significantly accelerated receipt scanning using Google OCR and GPT-4
“Early on, I remember they were they were one of the huge beneficiaries of GPT-IV for the receipt scanning because they could just do exactly what we did with the red book where they would OCR it with Google, take all the text in the picture, and then throw tha…”
Dec 11, 2024 neutral
Jan 23, 2025 bearish
Coogan: AI training scaling laws show diminishing returns since GPT-4
“When you 10 X the energy and tokens and data and all the work on the training, you do get a smarter model, but the increases have been diminishing. So as you spend 10 times more, It, you don't get the same increase from GPT three to GPT four.”
Jan 25, 2025 neutral
Jan 25, 2025 positive
Apr 25, 2025
Apr 25, 2025 neutral
Apr 26, 2025
Jun 7, 2025 positive
Douglas: Generalist models will obsolete specialized fine-tuned models
“I really do think that similar to how we saw with large pre-trained models before with small fine-tuned models made it like, had gains over the sort of GPT-II era, but then were obsoleted by GPT-IV being generally good at everything. I think, to be honest, you…”
Aug 8, 2025 bearish
Andreessen: Google Could Have Built a GPT-4 Level Chatbot by 2019
“I talked to somebody senior who was there at the time and I asked them, you know, when could you have had chat GPT with GPT four level output if you had just gotten, you know, gone, gone flat out starting in 2017. And they said by 2019.”
Aug 9, 2025 negative
Andreessen: Google could have built a GPT-4-level ChatGPT by 2019
“Google developed the transformer in 2017. And then they basically let it sit on the shelf, right? Cause it was a research project. They didn't productize it. They were very worried about, you know, from people I've talked to, they were very worried about the, …”
Oct 10, 2025 bullish
Altman: OpenAI knows how to build a GPT-4 equivalent for video
“It was really not until GPT-IV where these text models started providing real value for people, and we know how to go make the GPT-IV equivalent of video models, and we will do that, and then a lot of these things that are currently annoying, like doors, or, y…”