OpenAI, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where OpenAI comes up
Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?
- ▶ 44:13 Nikhil Kamath Like Claude and OpenAI.
Martin Escobari: Trauma, Chaos & Three Industries Worth $100B | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 50:09 unnamed speaker Um, and one of those, like, cold outreaches was the Early OpenAI team and, um, Sam Altman and a few other, like, founders. 2 times in the scene
The $11B Bet That Voice Will Replace Everything | Mati Staniszewski x Nikhil Kamath | WTF Online · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 12:59 Mati Staniszewski I think OpenAI has a good path to building like a personal assistant that's next to you. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:01 Mati Staniszewski You know, like, in a, in, in our case, we are, of course, continuously looking at, like, OpenAI, Google, incredible teams, and probably, like, as we think about the space, the, the, the biggest potentials of, uh, of, of, of effectively… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:38 Nikhil Kamath I thought open air is experimenting with ads for the first time, but to justify those valuations and to stop burning money, they have to make money.
The AI Tsunami is Here & Society Isn't Ready | Dario Amodei x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 3:19 Dario Amodei Then I joined OpenAI a few months after it, uh, started and was, uh, you know, was, was basically led, led, um, all of research there for, for, for, for several years.
- ▶ 3:43 Nikhil Kamath How was it, was it like a fork in how OpenAI was thinking into what Anthropic eventually did? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:57 Nikhil Kamath Didn't OpenAI believe in scaling laws because they went down the same path themselves too, right?
- ▶ 13:35 Nikhil Kamath When I watch OpenAI talk about how they're, how they were a not for profit company, or how you are projecting humility in the conversation that you're having right now, or how the American companies are competing with the Chinese companies…
- ▶ 47:38 Nikhil Kamath I've heard this argument for different people like the Harvey, the legal AI company in New York, they're friends of mine, and they were talking about how they built on top of OpenAI, but eventually they don't know 2 times in the scene
Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:07:54 Nikhil Kamath I read somewhere that you decided to move away from the incumbent hyperscalers, the models, like you had a partnership with OpenAI which stopped in 2025. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:29 Nikhil Kamath An advice to an investor who is looking at the various AI companies, let's say OpenAI, Anthropic, Alphabet, all of these big incumbent players in the space, if you had one dollar to invest, where would you put it and why? 2 times in the scene
Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 4:15 Debargo "DD" Das And I'm probably not the best person to tell this story, but a few people left OpenAI, wanted to do, um, a foundational model company somewhat differently, and they built a, and both of them hadn't figured out a business, and now Anthropic…
- ▶ 31:28 Nikunj Kothari I think the recent news that everybody was jumping on was that, you know, OpenAI won the IMO gold, and then DeepMind also did that as well. 2 times in the scene
From Iran to Uber CEO | Nikhil Kamath x Dara Khosrowshahi | People by WTF | Ep. 14 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 32:24 Dara Khosrowshahi I think I would build, I would not go after the I, would not go after the inspiration side, because I think the inspiration side, thank you very much, is, is going to be served really, really well by an open AI or a Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:45 Nikhil Kamath I end up using perplexity or OpenAI or someone like that.
Sam Altman x Nikhil Kamath: How to Win When AI Changes Everything | People by WTF | Episode 13 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:53 Sam Altman Um, it's an integrated model, so you don't have to, like, pick in our model switcher and know if you should use GPT-IV or O-III or O-IV or any of the complicated things.
- ▶ 1:53 Sam Altman Um, it's an integrated model, so you don't have to, like, pick in our model switcher and know if you should use GPT-IV or O-III or O-IV or any of the complicated things.
- ▶ 12:29 Sam Altman We, we got lucky here in many ways. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:17 Nikhil Kamath What happens if a company X, let's say OpenAI, gets to the point where it is 50% of world GDP?
Vinod Khosla: College Degrees Are Becoming Useless | People by WTF | Episode 12 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 24:31 Vinod Khosla Sam Altman's building OpenAI.
Nikhil Kamath x YouTube CEO, Neal Mohan | People by WTF Ep. 9 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 53:53 Nikhil Kamath If I were to put back the investor hat for a second, let's assume OpenAI used YouTube data for Sora.
Bill Gates x Nikhil Kamath Part 2 | People by WTF | Ep.8 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 39:52 Bill Gates You know, with your business experience, maybe the OpenAI guys would have some role 5 times in the scene
Nikhil Kamath ft. Perplexity CEO, Aravind Srinivas | WTF Online Ep 1. · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 5:57 Aravind Srinivas I, I, I self-taught myself all the Andrew Ng lectures, and, um, did all the Stanford materials, went back to campus, uh, took the machine learning class there, started doing research, that got me a PhD in Berkeley, uh, and then, like, from… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:21 Nikhil Kamath What years were these, Arvind, at OpenAI? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:33 Aravind Srinivas Uh, get into IIT, or like, like get into Berkeley, uh, you know, get a job at OpenAI, like start this company.
- ▶ 1:18:07 Aravind Srinivas I think OpenAI's one is, like, slightly more detailed on some, some, some queries.
- ▶ 1:29:31 Nikhil Kamath You guys are open AI
- ▶ 1:41:39 Aravind Srinivas Uh, and, and, uh, OpenAI is using them, a bunch of others using them.
Ep #21 | WTF is Longevity? | Nikhil ft. Nithin Kamath, Bryan Johnson, Prashanth, Jitendra & Seema · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 55:10 Bryan Johnson They kind of have an answer, but the open AI has an answer, and Anthropic has a different answer, and Facebook's open model has a different answer, and if you pose this question to Israel, they have ideas.
WTF is Artificial Intelligence Really? | Yann LeCun x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF Ep #4 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:09:42 Yann LeCun So you may have heard of O-one from OpenAI, and there is kind of similar work, um, at Meta and other places where, um, this sort of very basic forms of, of reasoning that consists in having an LLM produce lots of different sequences of, uh,
- ▶ 1:09:42 Yann LeCun So you may have heard of O-one from OpenAI, and there is kind of similar work, um, at Meta and other places where, um, this sort of very basic forms of, of reasoning that consists in having an LLM produce lots of different sequences of, uh,
- ▶ 1:26:22 Nikhil Kamath Would it be Nvidia, Lama, Meta, ChatGPT, OpenAI?
Nikhil Kamath x Bill Gates | People by WTF | Ep. #1 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 20:11 Bill Gates So if you're an entrepreneur who's trying to build foundational models, models from the very ground up, like Google does, or Microsoft with OpenAI does, and they have four or five others,
Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:37:57 Kaivalya Vohra So OpenAI, ChatGPT, founder of that company.
Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 15:11 Varun Mayya Now if you go to the OpenAI Playground, and this is where you really. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:00 Varun Mayya The reason they haven't released it is because I think there's a lot of, so ChatGPT, I mean, OpenAI has a team called the Red Team, okay, which is responsible for breaking or, you know, jailbreaking ChatGPT, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:00 Varun Mayya Three years ago, OpenAI released something called multi-agent hide-and-seek.
- ▶ 1:47:59 Tanmay Bhat But someone used OpenAI API. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:54:26 Varun Mayya You just need a open AI key, the GPD key, and it gives you every single step that you need to take.
- ▶ 2:08:35 Varun Mayya Imagine he runs OpenAI