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Hamdi: Y Combinator AI startups are often 'fugazi' ChatGPT wrappers
“I think AI right now has a lot of like Y Combinator kind of fugazi with a couple of people and, you know, a chat GPT wrapper.”
Tigranian: Standard Google SEO directly drives visibility in LLMs like ChatGPT
“We actually optimizing for Google and whatever we do, same impact is happening also in LLMs. So not much specific for ChartGPT. You actually doing exactly for SEO, it have a lot of impact on ChartGPT.”
LLMs now drive 20% of Allo's total web traffic
“I think the UTM chat GPT is around eight percent on the traffic, but when you talk, I think it's more around 20% traffic coming from LLM today.”
Fennell: Offering features unavailable in ChatGPT drives organic search traffic
“So we're finding that if you, if you're putting things onto your site that people can't get in ChatGPT now, that that's helping drive clicks through because obviously if they can just get it in ChatGPT, they've got no reason to leave.”
Latka: Google Must Cannibalize Ad Revenue to Defend Search Against ChatGPT
“I actually think the ad space is very interesting because Google has an innovators dilemma, right? They're gonna have to, Cannibalize their ad revenue to go make sure that, you know, the LM search and the chat function stays with Google versus chat GPT winning…”
Vidas shut down StrategyBox fearing ChatGPT would usurp its core tech
“We also saw we had early access to ChatGPT just because it was a data management platform, and we did AI and machine learning. I had a look at a lot of the functionality that we were building and investing in, and I looked at the capabilities of ChatGPT, and I…”
Larry Kim: Customers.ai differentiates by running its own LLM, not ChatGPT API.
“These AI companies are just like invoking chat GPT API. I think we're significantly differentiated from that because we have our own LLM.”
Lee: Today's AI startups are unproven UI wrappers lacking revenue
“If you look at all the AI companies today, they have a nice, I call the UI wrapper on top of AI or chat GPT, but the revenue is very lacking. It's unproven.”
Lee: Private Business Calls Create A Data Moat Against Public LLMs
“ChatGPT, they're using all the public data, public information, but there's so much information that is not public, like all the claws in the chest for the company and for the businesses, they're not. So we have all the advantage.”
Arora: Physical AI is where ChatGPT was around 2015
“And the, and I think if you get an equivalence, I think physically AI is at the same point where Chad GBT was in around 2015, where it's just finding its roots.”
Torres: ChatGPT excels when replicating examples rather than following rules
“My understanding of like where chat GPT really excels is not when you give them like tips on like, this is how you write a good hook. And this is how you write a good body, but it's more like do this, but in this different way. And that's why like, I like to g…”
Arcads uses AI agents to scrape, rewrite, and replicate competitor ads
“I have one that maybe I can show you, but it might be a bit too complex, but that basically will send me messages in Slack every single day when my competitors run new ads that are worth replicating. It will scrape the ads libraries and yeah, it will download …”
Omnisend CEO: AI tools like ChatGPT will make SEO attribution harder
“Being able to set to attribute SEO effort will be more challenging, just because if someone search on ChatGPT or Gemini and then enters your direct link into your browser it's very hard to Attribute.”
Chili Piper plans Q1 AI scheduler as 'ChatGPT for Calendly'
“We have something coming in the first quarter that we think is the chat GPT of Calendly, you know, but we'll see.”
White: Fathom is adding native Claude and ChatGPT integrations plus MCP server
“So we're actually gonna have first-class direct integrations with Claude and chat GPT, an MCP server for anything else you might use.”
Pearsall: Club Caddie has captured a couple dozen leads from ChatGPT
“I know that we have now added within HubSpot is the lead source and origin source, and there's been a couple dozen this year that have come in through it. But you know, we just started tracking it within the last six, seven months.”