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Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gupta: AI models will eliminate the analytical layer in data pipelines
“I strongly believe the middle layer, which is the analytical layer, is going to go. The bunch of models that we are having, like, whether it is Anthropic or OpenAI, they are going to eliminate the interpretation part, which is mostly the analytical.”
Saurabh Gupta Aug 18, 2026 ▶ 20:51 3,000 Tools and Enterprises Only Use 15% of Them
Prediction Not checkable as stated
May: OpenAI and Anthropic will be pushed to raise inference prices
“I think it's going to get worse before it gets better, because my guess is as open AI and anthropic IPO, wall street's going to scrutinize their unit economics. And it's probably going to ask them to raise prices, push them to raise prices on inference.”
Rob May Apr 10, 2026 ▶ 14:12 Why the 7th Biggest Player in a Huge Market Beats the Winner in a Small One
Prediction Held up
Wong: Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft will clone OpenClaw in ten months
“My prediction is this within n number of months, less than 10 Entropic, now, now Open Claw become part of OpenAI, so that becomes the OpenAI part of this game. Entropic, Google, Microsoft, Everybody will have their equivalent of open, open call framework.”
Sze Wong Mar 3, 2026 ▶ 1:34 OpenClaw is the Most Dangerous AI Tool Ever Built
Opinion
Lazerow: Boring small businesses, not OpenAI, will drive real AI value
“The number one thing I'm excited about is boring businesses that use AI to streamline processes, to find new customers, to communicate in a better way, and we just think that although all of this discussion about AI has been focused on open AI and these multi-…”
Michael Lazerow Nov 11, 2025 ▶ 7:29 Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
Insight
Bilkowski: Premium AI plans are a no-brainer by replacing junior software developers
“And that can be, you know, if you're, you know, if your business is relying on it may be a no brainer because you're like, Hey, we're, I'm using this to write code, that code I'm able to sell for, you know, 10, 20 X, whatever I'm paying, you know, open AI. And…”
Dan Bilkowski Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 14:45 Value Lives in the Mind of the Customer, Not in Your Product
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jamison: AI foundation models will be commoditized without monopoly profits
“All of the big tech companies right now that are investing very, very heavily into building their own models. It's just going to be commoditized at the end. And no one really gets that monopoly profits where it's like, you know, a search, like Google got monop…”
Travis Jamison Jul 4, 2025 ▶ 1:51 30% IRR From Plumbers and Dry Cleaners? Here Is How
Insight
Cohen: OpenAI killed document wrapper startups by launching native PDF chat
“I mean, open AI, for example, right now, now allows you to upload a PDF file, right? Those are the upload PDF and talk to it. How many startups did that just kill? Startups and businesses, right? There are so many that came up and said, Ooh, we're going to par…”
Oshree Cohen Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 15:37 He Raised His Price 3x and Got More Leads Than the Cheaper Version
Opinion
Smith: Base ChatGPT speaks like a socially unaware first-year analyst
“ChatGPT is very much like you know, talking to a socially unaware First year analyst who just kind of answers questions and is done. And it's not a very entertaining and interesting dialogue.”
Keith Smith Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 34:18 What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: OpenAI Features on LinkedIn Will Degrade Platform Outreach Trust
“So basically my understanding of Open AI features on LinkedIn is it's going to make things worse than they already are. I think it'll be easier for people to one click, generate messages that are completely useless and people will just continue to not trust st…”
Sean Weisbrot Dec 19, 2023 ▶ 8:55 Conviction Before Competence: Why Top Earners Defy Every Sales Profile
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: Global Reliance on ChatGPT Could Homogenize Human Belief Systems
“Another issue with ChatGPT is if the world in mass becomes confident in the information ChatGPT provides, ChatGPT may become the underlying foundation for all information humans receive in the future, which means all of us will end up having a singular belief …”
Sean Weisbrot Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 33:45 The Skill That Decides If AI Replaces You or Works For You
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rajendran: Alumni of OpenAI, Stripe, and Palantir Secure Extraordinary Valuations
“If you are someone spinning out of open AI or maybe another popular company like Stripe or something like that Palantir, like you're getting extraordinarily you know, high valuations and good terms because people want to chase the folks that are leaving those …”
Vijay Rajendran Dec 16, 2025 ▶ 7:56 Over Capacity Built the Internet. Vijay Says AI Is Next
Insight
Smith: ChatGPT's lack of long-term memory prevents genuine parasocial relationships
“That is, it is impossible to build a relationship on top of that, and that is a little bit like what it is to chat, talk with ChatGPT, at least today, and a lot of the other AIs. They just don't have good long-term memory built in”
Keith Smith Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 27:47 What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chalana: Future AI will combine big tech and open-source models
“I think it'll be a combination of both, just like it is today. It's, there's some companies who created these I mean, open AI created this with a lot of investment from Microsoft and all that stuff. But then Pretty soon, right after that, we had Facebook open …”
Vikram Chalana Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 10:39 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night
Opinion
Reyes: Hackers Are Actively Trying to Intercept ChatGPT Prompts for Credentials
“I think if you copy paste ChatGPT, probably OpenAI won't do anything with it, but I'm sure a lot of people are trying to see how to hack the prompts of people. To get all these passwords and codes and things that people just copy and paste away.”
Ricardo Michel Reyes Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 10:16 550 Million People, One Language, Zero Access to Venture Capital
Opinion
Reyes: Microsoft's AI and Acquisition Strategy Is a Masterclass in Business
“What Microsoft is doing is one of the most brilliant business movements I've seen in my life, like, they bought GitHub, they bought LinkedIn they invested in OpenAI, and they have been building an empire”
Ricardo Michel Reyes Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 34:29 550 Million People, One Language, Zero Access to Venture Capital
Assertion Supported
Schmidt: Most HR Tech Companies Lack Resources to Train Custom AI
“And the truth is that most companies who are in the HR tech space don't have the resources that someone like open AI has to train their content. And to train the AI. They just seem to, they don't have a billion dollars from Microsoft.”
Matthew Schmidt Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 38:38 People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Huselstein: ChatGPT German output rapidly matched English quality
“Six weeks ago that the way that you could operate the system in German was quite limited or not yet at a point where it was feeling as natural as it was in English. However, today already you can use it Very well in German, and it gives you almost the exact sa…”
Henri Huselstein Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 15:19 The Skill That Decides If AI Replaces You or Works For You
Opinion
Huselstein: ChatGPT Outperforms Manual Developer Daily Repo Summaries
“All of a sudden you can have ChatGPT just write certain summaries about your daily work activity in a certain style that you give it, and then from now on never have to worry about everybody being up to speed with what you did in that day on the code, right? W…”
Henri Huselstein Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 20:10 The Skill That Decides If AI Replaces You or Works For You
Insight
Huselstein: AI systems inherently cannot eliminate temporal knowledge bias
“There is almost no inherent way for the system not to be biased because at the end of the day, what is this knowledge that it's fed into? It is. Biased on, even if it's academia, it's only biased on the state of knowledge at the point in time, even if you can …”
Henri Huselstein Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 26:27 The Skill That Decides If AI Replaces You or Works For You
Assertion Supported
Rizzoli: Frontier AI Labs Spend Heavily on Expert Training Data
“And this is an ongoing effort where OpenAI, Anthropic, Google's teams are paying a lot of money for experts to give the AI their own personal knowledge.”
Alberto Rizzoli Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 24:20 Europe Is Half as Likely to Adopt AI. Here Is What That Costs Them
Opinion
Huselstein: ChatGPT launched because it is capable yet sufficiently restricted
“I think the reason why this is being published now is because it's good enough to be exposed to the public and probably also restricted enough to not scare people.”
Henri Huselstein Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 8:14 The Skill That Decides If AI Replaces You or Works For You
Opinion
Huselstein: Team Developed a ChatGPT 'God Mode' Jailbreak Within Five Days
“We had developed that in the first five days of GPT being out. There's a big possibility that that already doesn't work anymore simply because the system has been Hacked quote unquote in that way already, and generally I would guess they've built the system so…”
Henri Huselstein Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 13:01 The Skill That Decides If AI Replaces You or Works For You
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