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Andreessen: Total Deaths Attributable to ChatGPT Are Still Zero
“Yeah, I believe in this case, total deaths attributable to ChatGPT are still zero.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 4:30 Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
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Andreessen: Most Open-Weights AI Models, Including DeepSeek, Omit Training Data
“What most of the open source open weights models don't have, including, you know, deep seek specifically, What they don't have is they don't have open data, right? Or open corpus, right? So you can't actually see the training data that went, went into them.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 19:18 Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
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Andreessen: Musk eliminated research vs product division at xAI
“Within XAI, he's now collapsed, you know, he's eliminated the distinction between research and product.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 9, 2025 ▶ 1:11:46 Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
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Andreessen: DeepSeek and most open-weights AI models do not share training data
“What most of the open source open weights models don't have, including, you know, deep seek specifically, What they don't have is they don't have open data, right? Or open corpus, right? So you can't actually see the training data that went, went into them.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 9, 2025 ▶ 1:24:54 Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
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Andreessen: Elon Musk Reconfirmed Plans to Open-Source Older Grok Models
“Elon reconfirmed overnight that he's going to, you know, open source, you know, start open sourcing previous versions of Grok.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 17:15 Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
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Andreessen: Original iPhone Lacked Broadband and App Store, Took Five Years
“And people, you know, people forget it took like five years for the iPhone to find its footing. It took like two years to get the, I remember also the original iPhone didn't have, it didn't have broadband data. It was on the old two G it was called the AT&T ed…”
Marc Andreessen Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 14:28 Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
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