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Altman: GPT-5.3 Codex is the best coding model in the world
“So we launched 5.3 codecs. It is I think the best coding model in the world.”
Hays: Anthropic falsely implies ChatGPT display ads will manipulate model responses
“As the ads that are coming to chat to be to your effectively display ads. Everybody in the industry by now should know this, yet this campaign implies that the ads will influence the response and that you cannot trust it.”
Hays: Effectively zero percent chance OpenAI wins the Super Bowl ad battle
“And there is zero, I will go out now and say, I would say there's effectively a zero percent chance that OpenAI can win the Super Bowl this year.”
Huang: Nvidia never promised $100B in one OpenAI round
“No, we never said we were going to invest a hundred billion dollars in one round. That never was said.”
Huang: Nvidia will likely make its largest investment ever in OpenAI
“We will definitely be involved in their next, in their round. We will invest a great deal of money. Probably the largest investment we've ever made.”
OpenAI Chair Bret Taylor admits AI is 'probably a bubble'
“Opening eye chair, Brad Taylor, says AI is quote, probably a bubble, expects a corruption in the coming years.”
Amodei: Anthropic rarely faces Chinese AI models in enterprise contract bids
“When we go out, when we're you know, competing against other companies for enterprise contracts, We see, just honestly and candidly, we see Google, and we see OpenAI. Every once in a while, we see a couple other US players. I have almost never lost a deal, los…”
Musk Legal Team Seeks $134B in Damages from OpenAI
“It's gonna be a hundred and thirty four billion dollars in damages is what Elon is seeking. Musk's legal team argues that his early funding and involvement materially contributed to OpenAI's rise, which is now valued at five hundred billion, and he wants a sli…”
Multiple Thinking Machines employees and three co-founders return to OpenAI
“He says more thinking machine Employees are in the process of joining OpenAI after three of the startup's co-founders rejoined yesterday.”
Hays: OpenAI urges White House to invest in Stargate supercomputing initiative
“In a letter to the White House sent this AM, this was yesterday, OpenAI encourages the federal government, government to invest in or contract with initiatives like OpenAI's Stargate to secure compute for public research.”
Coogan: Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and licensing IP to Sora
“Disney, which is investing one billion dollars in OpenAI and is going to license their characters for use in Sora.”
Hays: Disney accuses Google of massive copyright infringement with AI models
“As Disney has gone into business with OpenAI, the Mouse House is accusing Google of copyright infringement on massive scale, using AI models and services to commercially exploit and distribute infringing images and videos.”
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.”
Chen: OpenAI has internal models matching Gemini 3 and better successors coming
“Just looking purely at the benchmarks, you know, we actually felt quite confident you know, we have models internally that perform at the level of Gemini three, and we're pretty confident that we will release them soon, and we can release successor models that…”
Tyler Hogge says OpenAI seeks government backstops to rival cash-rich hyperscalers
“OpenAI is, is, is a new hyperscaler, and it's so hard to compete with the hyperscalers that have huge amounts of cash flow, that they need every advantage that they possibly can, right? And one way they could get an advantage is through programs like Sarah sug…”
Tyler Hogge predicts the US government will provide AI loan backstops
“But a backstop of loans, I would expect that to happen.”
Gurman: Apple can copy any consumer hardware OpenAI builds
“In terms of Apple worried, I think Apple looks at this as something where they can be a fast follower. I don't, I think there are hardware products that OpenAI can bring to market that are innovative before Apple, but I don't think there's a product out there …”
Nadella: Azure Welcomes Anthropic, Grok, and Google Gemini Alongside OpenAI
“Hey, I'm happy with OpenAI. I would love to have Anthropic, MAI, Crock, anyone. If Google wants to put Gemini on Azure, please do so.”
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”
Peebles: Sora is the only video model reliably handling complex physics
“This model is a huge leap forward in terms of physics IQ. So pretty much all past video generation models really struggled with prompts that, you know, involve like backflips, gymnastics routines, et cetera. And this is really the only model that exists today,…”
Altman: Most future content will be tool-assisted human generation
“What I expect will mostly happen in the future, which is
Tool assisted human driven generation.
I don't think you care that much if the content is great.”
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.”
Altman: No partner but Nvidia can build infrastructure at this scale
“There's like no partner but NVIDIA that could do this at this kind of scale, at this kind of speed.”
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…”
Altman: OpenAI treats advertising as a last-resort business model
“I kind of think of ads as like a last resort for us for a business model.”
Coogan: Model auto-routing gives OpenAI customer leverage and higher margins
“This change is more bullish for the business because it shows that, that OpenAI is a dominant consumer app and they have increasing leverage over the customer to route to cheaper models that will save money and be higher margin.”
Andreessen: AI training data disputes must be solved by Congress
“In the case of training data, I think that there, I mean, there's a bunch of these copyright, you know, kind of lawsuits happening right now. There's, you know, the big New York Times opening, I won, and there's, you know, been a bunch of others. I think in th…”
Hays: OpenAI's current revenue cannot support its massive Oracle commitments
“OpenAI needs to massively
Scale infrastructure.
And as we covered earlier this week, commit to spending tens of billions of dollars with Oracle.
Yep.
And their revenue today doesn't support that.”
Shkreli: AI Labs Should Partner with PE to Acquire Enterprise Data
“I sometimes joke that the big AI companies should become LBO shops. And what they can do is they can partner with KKR or Blackstone and all they get is the data. KKR and Blackstone pride the capital, get all the returns. Fine. But all the data comes back to, y…”
Coogan: OpenAI Recalibrates Compensation to Fight Meta Poaching While Balancing Fairness
“Chen promised that he was working with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and other leaders of the company around the clock to talk to those with offers, adding, we've been more proactive than ever before. We're recalibrating comp and we're scooping out creative wa…”
Coogan: OpenAI used FP8 weight storage two years before DeepSeek
“And when you talk to Dylan Patel, I was asking him about deep seek and how deep seek was doing all these innovations and like moving to floating .8, like smaller smaller, basically smaller numbers, storing the weights. And he was like, oh yeah, but open AI was…”
Prince: Anthropic is 30,000x and OpenAI 750x harder than Google for traffic
“As you looked at open AI, it was about 750 times harder than with the kind of Google of old to get traffic with something like anthropic is 30,000 times harder.”
Coogan: OpenAI secured a $200 million contract with the US DoD
“They scored a two hundred million dollar US defense contract. So they're working with the DOD.”
Chen: AI reasoning only emerges at large scale requiring massive compute
“When you look at reasoning you just don't see that happen at small scale, right? There's like a certain scale at which it starts becoming signal bearing and that requires you to have resources, right?”
OpenAI's limited bandwidth creates startup opportunities outside their top ten priorities
“If you have some strict stack ranking of the teams within open AI, like only 10 problems can have like the top 10 teams on it. And so if you're any, if you're doing anything after like the top 10 problems that they have, then you're like by definition don't ha…”
Brown: OpenAI's o3 qualifies as 10-minute AGI
“I'm happy to call O three, 10 minute AGI. And I think like framing AGI in terms of like length of time, it takes a human to do a task is like more reasonable than like a global framing. Like, sure. There's a bar of like drop and replace for a human that we are…”
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.”
OpenAI researcher Aidan McLaughlin praises Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus
“My Sydney is, easy answer for me, is it was Claude Thoreopis. That was like such a great model, and you know, not an OpenAI model too, so y'all never say that. But, you know, a ton of life to it.”
Schneider: DeepSeek pushed efficiency earlier because it ran out of chips before US labs
“I think deep sea kind of came to that earlier. The sort of need to really push on kind of the efficiency frontier as opposed to the capability frontier, because they ran out of chips before the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic.”
Bartlett: Most AI equity value will probably accrue to Big Tech incumbents
“And I think in large part, maybe with the exception of open AI, like the vast majority of the equity value will probably end up accumulating to the Facebooks and the Microsofts and the, you know, the Googles and I guess open AI as well.”
Bartlett: OpenAI Should IPO Soon to Capitalize on Market Demand
“If I were open AI, I would try to get out sooner rather than later. Right. Cause I think there's this demand both from
Institutional and retail to have exposure to some of these things. And if you look, I mean Palantir's where they're trading, and obviously th…”
Coogan: Developing AGI requires a capitalist for-profit structure to raise capital
“If you want to summon the AI God in a box, you gotta be a capitalist. It's not happening to a nonprofit. You're not just writing some clever algorithm with some altruistic.”
Coogan: DeepSeek will push inference costs down and disrupt B2B AI
“And this will drive the cost down even further. So hugely disruptive to the B to B space.”
Coogan: DeepSeek's training data relies heavily on OpenAI's GPT-4 API
“I think the training data, a lot of it is synthetic data that's been pulled from the GPT-IV API.”
Coogan: Stargate $500B figure represents total cost of ownership not upfront capex
“We believe this project is being measured on the total cost of ownership, not capital expenditures, i.e. The one hundred billion and the five hundred billion is TCO, which includes the capital expenditures for data centers, servers, Networking costs, power cos…”
Coogan: Stargate joint venture is incrementally negative for Microsoft long-term
“Microsoft is the biggest loser. Microsoft is largely left on the sidelines as OpenAI utilizes another infrastructure partner. As such, and Adele stated, all I know is I'm good for my eighty billion. Microsoft's recent blog post stated the facts of the partners…”