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Hays: Claude has lost the race to reach billions of users
“Anthropic has already lost the race to serve billions of people, right? I don't think that they're, when you look at Gemini's sort of traction, OpenAI's, ChatGPT traction, like it seems like the race to get to Three billion monthly actives is kind of over. I d…”
Gurman: Apple leadership views its initial AI rollout as a disaster
“I think they recognize that it's been a disaster. I mean, still the biggest thing to me is they were completely caught off guard by, ah, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, back at the end of 22, into twenty-twenty-three”
Hays: OpenAI could swap ChatGPT's model for Claude and retain users
“OpenAI could swap out the underlying model,
And still accrue the vast majority of value.
So, hypothetically, you could have ChatGPT, chat.com, powered not by GPT-Five, but instead powered by Gemini or Claude, and still see positive user growth, monetization, b…”
Cuban: Consumers won't abandon misleading AI because users are primed for misinformation
“I wouldn't agree with that, Jordy, because I think people are primed for misinformation these days. You see it in healthcare continuously. You know, you saw it with COVID vaccines. People on their deathbed say, I wish I had taken the vaccine, you know, and you…”
Brockman: 300 million people use ChatGPT for health queries weekly
“If you look at how many people use Chat for Health, three hundred million people every single week. With health queries, right?”
Shah: Consumers will use AI agents for autonomous purchases within six months
“You just, and no one's really doing this yet, but it's going to happen, I think, you know, in the next six months. Is just tell your agent, you know, tell Gemini, tell ChatGPT, go buy these things, it has your credit card, and now that world that they were des…”
Hays: OpenAI officially rolled out ads in ChatGPT today
“Apparently OpenAI actually rolled out ads in ChatGPT today.”
O'Laughlin: AI Coding Agents Represent First New Modality Since ChatGPT
“The reason why you should actually pay attention so much is because this is the first time, like, image models essentially always gain share, video models always gain share, like Studio Ghibli moment, and then obviously ChatGPT. This is the first, like, new mo…”
Hays: The race to 3 billion AI users is already over
“Like I think the game to get to like three billion users is like over. When you just look at the traction of, like, Gemini and ChatGPT, and the fact that normal people aren't caring that much about the nuance.”
Ben Affleck: LLMs write poorly because they inherently regress to the mean
“What I see is, for example, if you try to get ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini to write you something, it's, Really shitty, and it's shitty because by its nature, it goes to the mean, to the average, and it's not reliable, and it's, I mean, I just can't even stand …”
Hays: Siri's Gemini integration is an underrated threat to OpenAI
“It's an underrated threat for OpenAI. There's a lot of queries that all hit open ChatGBT on mobile. That are not even, like, super economic, but it's just a lot of my usage around, like, hey, just trying to learn about something or research a product, et ceter…”
Hays: ChatGPT daily active users fell 6% following Google Gemini launch
“In the two weeks since the Gemini launched, ChatGPT unique daily active users, a seven-day average, are down six percent.”
Chesky: ChatGPT will ultimately be just a distribution channel
“Where I think it goes is I think ChatGPT has to build an SDK that's really robust, and it will be just a channel. That's my guess, but we'll see. And I might be wrong”
Altman: Competitors copying ChatGPT even replicate OpenAI's design mistakes
“A lot of people have tried copying ChatGPT in, you can go look at some of our competitors' apps, and they even copy the mistakes. They even copy the design decisions we really wish we hadn't made.”
Randle: ChatGPT drives the majority of industry foundation model revenue
“The majority of all of that, or at least the plurality of all of that is ChatGPT. And ChatGPT, even though it is served by a foundation model company, is an application. It is a consumer subscription that has an immense amount of power. It has an immense amoun…”
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, …”
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.”
Hotz: Shift to diffusion AI models will erode centralized cloud moats
“With AI, I think there's going to be a much less of a moat. Especially when you look at the move from autoregression to diffusion. So autoregression can run in large batch sizes. When you run ChatGPT, you're running with a whole bunch of other people on that s…”
Kilpatrick: ChatGPT's consumer success was driven by its API business
“I think part of my core worldview is a lot of the reason that ChatGPT has been as successful as it has
Is because there was an API business built around it.”
Rauch: 5% of Vercel signups come from ChatGPT, growing 30% MoM
“We see five percent of our Vercel signups that also happen to be some of the highest intense signups coming from ChatGPT. Which is up from being like, one percent or less than one percent six months ago. And it's growing. I didn't share the growth metric, but …”
Stebbings: Lovable maintains over 85% retention, beating ChatGPT
“Their retention is better than chat GPTs at over 85%.”
LLMs won't be a 10X ad platform for discovery-driven DTC brands
“Probably I wouldn't say a 10 X ad platform. I think the important distinction is like there are certain brands and industries that benefit from like these high intent channels, right? You are looking for a mattress or you are looking for insurance. They're the…”
Coogan: Biggest AI opportunities lie in controversial categories big labs avoid
“The biggest AI opportunity is that we've seen in the last few years have been the ones that the big labs just don't want to touch. It's like the AI girlfriend stuff. It's like too controversial. So probably not going to be killed by ChatGPT because they'll be …”
Brockman: ChatGPT market share is climbing again
“That the market share of chat GPT is starting to climb once again, because we've been investing so hard in In so many use cases that are important for people in education and health and a variety of other areas.”
Brockman: OpenAI surpasses one billion weekly active users
“We're now well over a billion users every week”
Coogan: Apple Is 1 to 2 Years Behind in Knowledge Retrieval AI
“Apple is like the most far behind. They still have a ChatGPT integration. They're solving the Gemini thing. And there may be like a year or two behind in terms of like the knowledge retrieval use case that is in so in such high demand.”
Coogan: Agencies unable to track independent performance are just media buyers
“If an ad agency says it can't provide performance data because the channel doesn't provide it is merely a media buying intermediary. If you're an ad agency, you've got to figure out whether or not the ads that you pitch to your clients are actually working.”
Hays: Anthropic has lost the race for billions of consumer users
“Anthropic has already lost the race to serve billions of people, right? I don't think that they're, when you look at Gemini's sort of traction, OpenAI's, ChatGPT traction, Like, it seems like the race to get to three billion monthly actives is kind of over.”
Coogan: OpenAI Could Swap Underlying Models Without Losing Consumer Dominance
“OpenAI has a strong hold on the consumer market to the point where if they swapped out the underlying model, they would still accrue tons of the value because people don't really know what model is which.”
Hays: Altman Memo Directed OpenAI to Personalize ChatGPT for 800M Users
“So what Sam said in the internal Slack memo is he was directing more employees to focus on improving features of ChatGPT, such as personalizing the chat bot for more than eight hundred million people.”
Real-time voice AI is not the preferred user interaction method
“I've used it. I've used it a bunch. I've used all of them, but they're just not the preferred way of interacting.”
The consumer AI market will shift from winner-take-all to a duopoly
“Maybe, maybe there will be a little bit more of a duopoly. There, it won't be such a winner-take-all market even though it has been historically, it's, it has been up to this date.”
Coogan: Nvidia earnings lag real-time AI demand due to five-year lead times
“Also with the Nvidia news, it's like, how much can you actually read into AI demand based on Nvidia earnings? Because I feel like we're projecting out like these deals five years in advance. We buy the chips, then we install them like that whole rumored decele…”
Gurman: Apple built an in-house AI search to rival Perplexity
“What they haven't talked about Is AI web search. And so the new Siri is also going to have a chat GPT perplexity competitor for things like deep research and summarizing search. That is going to be an Apple built, an Apple powered system.”
Nadella: Microsoft Committed $13.5B to OpenAI Before ChatGPT Became a Hit
“I mean, if you look back, you asked how we put the billion, and the reality is we put the ten billion. Or the 13 and a half was fully committed before it became a thing, right? And remember that was all done before ChatGPT became a thing.”
Cuban: Consulting ChatGPT for medical issues is sometimes easier than finding doctors
“It's easier to chat GPT about your own personal medical situation. Then it is to find a doctor to talk to sometimes.”
Coogan: OpenAI will undoubtedly be able to monetize ChatGPT with ads
“There's no doubt that they'll be able to put ads in this, like the business of the Of the accidental consumer company is as strong as ever”
Coogan: OpenAI generates around $1B per month in revenue
“Like, you know, they're generating, what, a billion dollars a month in revenue at this point. Everyone uses the app. It's installed everywhere. Like, that, that, that token demand is not going anywhere, that infrastructure demand is not going anywhere, so.”
Andreessen: Total Deaths Attributable to ChatGPT Are Still Zero
“Yeah, I believe in this case, total deaths attributable to ChatGPT are still zero.”
Coogan: SemiAnalysis clocks ChatGPT at 71% of AI query share
“So semi-analysis, clocks, chat GPTs, share of queries, it's 71%. Meta is in second at 12%, and that's with billions of users on meta products, and so OpenAI is certainly running away with consumer.”
Hays: Native ChatGPT image tools pose a massive challenge to wrapper startups
“This presents a massive challenge if you are a ChatGP a GPT rapper that's trying to go compete in the creative expression space because you have to, you, it's not enough to generate a cool image or generate a meme it used to be that if you could do text well, …”
Coogan: Meta Will Not Try To Directly Disrupt ChatGPT
“I don't think that Meta is necessarily going to try and go eat ChatGPT's lunch. Like I was revisiting that conversation that we had with Jeff Huber, and he was saying like, you know, he was kind of reiterating like, never bet against Zuck. Like he's working on…”
Kirsten Green likens ChatGPT to Google, opening doors for vertical AI apps
“Jack GPT is to this generation what Google was to the last. If you think about Google is like the place where, you know, the front door, you go there, that's your big search. But if you want to, like, look for real estate, you go to Zillow. If you want to unde…”
Foody: AI data training shifted from low-skilled crowdsourcing to high-caliber expert vetting
“What we realized was that there was this really large shift happening in the human data market where large AI labs are hiring thousands of people to train the next generation of LLMs. And it used to be this crowdsourcing problem that was super low skilled, rig…”
Rabois: Most OpenAI revenue comes from durable ChatGPT subscriptions
“OpenAI, most of their revenue comes from ChatGPT subscriptions. That's pretty durable. Consumers or people using it, you know, for business applications, but on an individual basis.”
Hays: Agentic activity is happening in ChatGPT and Claude, not standalone startups
“All of that agentic activity that people have been betting on is happening With ChatGPT, with Claude.”
Hays: Altman's Grok vs ChatGPT post was savvy content marketing
“So I actually saw a deeper dive on that on Sam's post and it did seem like he had sort of strategically cropped it or screenshot it in a way to not give the sort of like final conclusion. So I think what Sam was doing is what, you know, a lot of people do, whi…”
Coogan: Creator AI wrappers capture value despite not disrupting foundation models
“She has a cornered resource in her audience. She's got attention where yes. Who knows if this is that much better than just asking vanilla chat GPT, but if she can drive people to this app, she can monetize that she's effectively acting as like an affiliate of…”