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Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:33 Sam Altman Like this was, you know, it was years till we came up with the idea of ChatGPT, the API.
Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator
- ▶ 29:20 Jensen Huang Everybody should use ChatGPT and Claude and, right, everybody should use that.
- ▶ 35:56 Jensen Huang I would say the chat GPT moment of robots happened a couple of years ago already. 2 times in the scene
Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:20 Garry Tan What are some things, you know, when you reflect on that, like, and then you see, you know, we're sort of a few years off of the ChatGPT moment, but now, you know, I would say that we're
- ▶ 13:36 Garry Tan It sounds like they don't think about the new part enough, and then maybe these days they're over-relying on ChatGPT and Claude. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:40 Mark Pincus But I think that these, what I call these internet treasures, these services we can't remember life before or imagine life without, like a Google, um, or a GPT now. 2 times in the scene
The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:46 Bryant Chou Help you get found by chat GPT, help you get found by perplexity and Claude so that businesses can run their marketing on autopilot.
- ▶ 18:52 Bryant Chou And we've used a collection of models, open AIs, ChatGPT images, but then we've created 3500 prompts for web designs that then Ploy takes inspiration from.
- ▶ 24:08 Harj Taggar And I think the reason it's interesting is it feels like from our perspective in the batches we, ChatGPT launched and there was just like green field for like all these ideas to build.
- ▶ 34:23 Harj Taggar Again, we certainly saw ChatGPT launch, there was a heavy snap towards young founders, sort of like intense rise of the young founders, because there's only young founders that are actually, well, using the technology and building with the…
The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:37 Pedro Franceschi Uh, Chachipiti came out, and I think everybody was sort of interested in it.
- ▶ 35:36 unnamed speaker I think that Ubuntu people kind of feel more like people that try ChatGPT.
- ▶ 50:25 unnamed speaker I went, I actually had like chat GPT generate
Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:09 Jared Friedman For the last few years since ChatGPT, YC has been funding mainly AI companies, and we've been, we've gone through like many different like versions of advice for them about how to build AI native companies that build like mainly AI…
- ▶ 35:04 unnamed speaker I was thinking a lot about this because I used to be in the camp that, oh, perhaps when ChatGPT came out and it was 20, 23, that perhaps chat was not going to be the UI for all these AI applications.
- ▶ 43:17 Garry Tan Like, most people, the mass, you know, a billion users use ChatGPT, and ChatGPT, like, gives you a little access, but MCP is really locked down, you actually, you know, 2 times in the scene
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:09 unnamed speaker And then it's like, like, ChatGPT launches, like, oh, now I've got this, like, interactive thing that's way better than Stack Overflow.
The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:20 Quan Vuong You know, is the chat GPT-MOMENT for robotics real?
- ▶ 14:56 Jared Friedman Like, we're not quite at the ChatGBT moment yet.
- ▶ 18:23 Jared Friedman Until basically, until ChatGPT, I didn't know if this would exist even in my entire lifetime, because like folding laundry, I mean, it's, it's always been like the Turing test for robotics, because there's no way to like deterministically…
This Startup Catches Fraud at Scale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:59 Jared Friedman And this was at the very beginning, because you guys actually started Variance pre-ChatGPT, like just a little bit before ChatGPT, right? 2 times in the scene
François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:30 unnamed speaker When you ask a question on ChatGPT or Claude or pretty much all of the major, ah, LLMs, you ask, how do I connect my web app to send emails? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:13 Garry Tan And nobody wanted to do it because like the bar for chat, especially for AI is so high that anything that is not like, you know, Gemini or ChatGPT or Claude, people just assume it's just too stupid.
OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:07 Peter Steinberger ChatGPT can't do that.
- ▶ 13:47 Peter Steinberger Maybe there is for Europeans to actually get the memories out of ChatGPT.
The Truth About The AI Bubble · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:00 Garry Tan I haven't switched off of ChatGPT. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:52 Harj Taggar Like, we, we bought a house recently, and, like, the whole thing, like, I just had, like, a really long-running ChatGPT 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:08 Diana Hu There's a bit of a frenzy because it starts first with a, there's this new technology that's amazing, which happened with the ChatGPT moment in 23.
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:26 Harj Taggar Chad Gbt launches.
The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:52 Garry Tan I mean, ChatGPT felt like that.
- ▶ 18:23 Mike Mignano Um, which is right now doing, you know, kind of, uh, medical triage, similar to what you can do in Chachi BT today, but, um, you know, they have a model that's, that's trained on, uh, a gigantic corpus of health information and data 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:49 Garry Tan I'm hopeful that ChatGPT comes around and realizes, like, that was one of the most amazing things that TikTok did, and that's what the YouTube algorithm does today.
- ▶ 31:43 Mike Mignano You know, as long as you're not doing exactly what ChatGBT is doing, or exactly what Claude's doing, like, you'll be okay because that's where they're focusing their energy into these products.
Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:23 Aaron Epstein Power of chat GPT inside your email. 2 times in the scene
The Startup Playbook for Hiring Your First Engineers and AEs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 36:25 David Paffenholz Um, the, a lot of job descriptions are very wordy, kind of sound corporate, you know, maybe chat GPT written.
From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:39 Jake Heller Even if you just use chat GPT, you sometimes probably been blown away with its brilliance at times.
- ▶ 22:08 Jake Heller You know, and I'm assuming the same thing is true of ChatGPT.
Why Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:58 Harj Taggar Okay, Jesse, so AI had its sort of magic moment with the chat GBT launch. 2 times in the scene
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:59 David Lieb Is it just that they themselves personally have used ChatGPT? 3 times in the scene
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:20 Amjad Masad And then, um, there's going to be agents that, that, uh, go out there and assembles these teams of agents, uh, and then there's going to be, uh, obviously software development agents, and maybe there's, and maybe you're running all, all…
The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:36 Harj Taggar Bob was an early engineer at PayPal, an early executive at Palantir, and was recently chief research officer at OpenAI, where he led the development of ChatGPT, GPT-IV, and the O-One reasoning model.
- ▶ 1:23 Jared Friedman YC organized a few months ago, and you expected that all the founders would come up to you to talk to you about, you know, inventing chat GPT.
Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:32 Michael Truell Maybe middle road bet from the start, where when we set out to work on the company and we were kind of hiring our, our first people, we would get these weird looks around, you know, why are you, I mean, at the end of 2022, it wasn't really…
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:16 Gustaf Alströmer So ChatGPT came, uh, maybe eight months prior to you guys starting this company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:54 Max Junestrand No, I think my personal aha moment was just using ChatGPT generally, right?
Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI | Anthropic Co-founder Jared Kaplan · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:22 Jared Kaplan So, there are really two fundamental phases to the training of contemporary AI models like Claude, ChatGPT, etc.
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:29 Aravind Srinivas Of course, ChatGPT has a bigger distribution than us.
- ▶ 10:23 Aravind Srinivas We launched it seven days after the ChatGPT launch, especially at a time when ChatGPT did not have web search. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:53 Aravind Srinivas Now at least you're like, oh, I first go ask this app, like I'll ask Google, or I'll ask ChatGPT, or I'll ask Perplexity, or I'll ask Gemini, and then maybe you don't even ask Google anymore, you just ask the AI apps, and there are a bunch…
- ▶ 17:09 Aravind Srinivas Okay, let's assume, let's, let's, let's, let's accept that OpenAI is extremely well-funded, doesn't have all these innovative dilemma problems, wants to actually ship search on the ChatGPT, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:46 Aravind Srinivas OpenAI has perplexity within ChatGPT that did not kill any of these companies.
- ▶ 24:33 Aravind Srinivas AI doesn't quite have that yet, mainly because you can easily export your ChatGPT history, upload it somewhere else, or, ah, things like that.
- ▶ 35:02 unnamed speaker And perplexity sort of has that issue too with, like, a lot of LLMs adding search, like TadGBT, Gemini, companies like Cohere.
Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:42 Dr. Fei-Fei Li While this is happening in a very exciting way, we also have another extremely exciting thread, which is language, which is LLMs, which is that really, twenty-twenty-two November, ChadGBT blasted open the door of truly working generation…
Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:28 Kirsten Green You know, you just look at the chat GPT numbers and it's like really astounding how many hundreds of millions of people are logging on daily there. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:45 Garry Tan I feel like ChatGPT
- ▶ 10:02 Garry Tan I started using ChatGPT explicitly for this. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:24 Kirsten Green I think getting back to where we were talking about earlier, like the adoption of ChatGPT, that is not just young people or people, you know, in certain cities.
- ▶ 22:15 Garry Tan Well, I mean, uh, Fiji Saimo is the new CEO of applications at ChatGPT. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:43 Garry Tan Going back to ChatGPT, I mean, will we have to pay for ads, or 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:20 Garry Tan Um, with ChatGPT, they just sort of explain what's, you know, their symptoms of their back pain. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:41 Garry Tan The things that are sort of unfolding right now, they're sort of happening inside the walled garden of ChatGPT. 3 times in the scene
Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:22 Sam Altman It was such, it's like hard to explain now because it looks so obvious now how improbable it seemed at the time and how the idea of ChatGPT was like completely in the realm of science fiction.
- ▶ 4:53 Garry Tan How people use ChatGPT has changed a lot.
- ▶ 6:59 Sam Altman I don't think most people at OpenAI would say that, because we've launched a lot of stuff, but I love memory in ChatGPT, um, and I think it points to where we will hopefully go with the product, which is you will have this, like, entity…
- ▶ 8:42 Sam Altman Definitely people are starting to use ChatGPT as this, like, operating system with everything, with their whole lives in it, um, and integrating into as many data sources as possible is important. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:36 Sam Altman That tier of the ChatGPT subscription we send you a free humanoid robot to.
- ▶ 13:52 Sam Altman We are going to try to make the best super assistant out of ChatGPT that we can. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:13 Sam Altman For a long time, ChatGPT was like a Google replacement.
- ▶ 19:29 Sam Altman But now you start to see things where you can like really give a task to Codex, for example, um, or to deep research, and you have this thing go off and do a bunch of stuff and come back to you with like a proposal.
- ▶ 29:03 Sam Altman I, the, the negative, the way that it's not is most people still think of AI as ChatGPT, and a lot of people use ChatGPT, but they use it like a, a chatbot, and they have not yet wrapped their head around what's, what's coming next, and…
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:10 Andrej Karpathy Maybe one more analogy that I'll mention is whenever I talk to ChatGPT or some LLM directly in text, I feel like I'm talking to an operating system through the terminal. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:34 Andrej Karpathy You can certainly go to ChatGPT directly, and you can start copy-pasting code around, and copy-pasting bug reports and stuff around, and getting code and copy-pasting everything around. 3 times in the scene
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:11 Michael Truell You know, impressed some people, but was certainly not the breakout moment ChatGPT was. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:32 Michael Truell And, you know, I think the ChatGPT moment is kind of like the iPod or iPhone moment of our age of if you keep pushing the frontier faster than other people, you can get really big gains occurring to you.
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator
How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:34 Tom Blomfield You know, we had GPT before ChatGPT and ChatGPT brought it to the mainstream, but now every product is just embedding this chat agent in it.
How AI Coding Agents Will Change Your Job · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:06 Tom Blomfield So you as a person interact with, you come to ChatGPT with a problem and it spins up a little piece of code to help you solve the problem.
How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:32 Tom Blomfield I also used ChatGPT to create an image for my site's favicon, that little icon that appears at the top of the browser window, and then Claude took that image and wrote a quick throwaway script to resize it into the six different sizes and…
Vibe Coding Is The Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:11 Diana Hu The other one, people still use, ah, ChatGPT, and the reason they use it is because they want to actually use the reasoning models, so it does get posted.
- ▶ 20:35 Jared Friedman You probably have to ask different questions because I'll bet if you go back to the original triple byte assessment, I bet a lot of those questions you could literally just copy and paste the question into chat GPT and it would spit out a…
Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:33 Bob McGrew So I think in five years, you know, or even, even sometime in the next five years, we will see the chat GPT moment for robotics.
Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:15 David Lieb So this is basically ChatGPT inside of Twitter, which to me doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and I'm sure to any normal person makes zero sense.
Why The Next AI Breakthroughs Will Be In Reasoning, Not Scaling · Y Combinator
How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 37:28 Sam Altman Like, ChatGPT is less than two years old.
The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:03 Garry Tan And how he uses ChatGPT right now, and it's sort of unlocking, uh, new capabilities for him.
- ▶ 8:02 Harj Taggar Like, it's not clear if you start it from the ChatGPT three moment two years ago, or from just, like, all of the research that's been going on for decades.
- ▶ 12:12 Harj Taggar Yeah, Jared ran some numbers on this, and it's, it's fascinating, but I think the bigger meta point is even the fact that talking about the startups or the founders building this stuff are choosing, like, the smaller models versus the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:30 Harj Taggar Another interesting thing about the O-one model is we were just saying originally ChatGPT was the only thing you could build on top of.
How To Price For B2B | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:48 Tom Blomfield And so you might think of the last time you bought software, you know, a subscription to GitHub or ChatGPT, and you pick a ludicrously low number, 19 dollars a month or 49 dollars a month or something like that.
The Truth About Building AI Startups Today · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:03 Harj Taggar Like, OpenAI, like, ChatGPT was expensive, and people wanted a
- ▶ 20:31 Harj Taggar And Gary, to your point about the chat GPT rapper, I think back, like, I feel like that meme really came out, like, just about a year ago. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:24 Harj Taggar So going back to like the chat GBT rapper meme again, I actually think that was great for YC.
The REAL potential of generative AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:00 Ali Rowghani You've heard of large language models like ChatGPT. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:06 Ali Rowghani What are some of the challenges of using a pre-trained model like ChatGPT? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:38 Raza Habib If you look at what the difference is between ChatGPT or the most recent OpenAI Text DaVinci Three model, and, uh, what's been in the platform for two years and has not gotten as much attention, the difference is fine tuning. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:46 Raza Habib But now you just ask the model, like honestly stuff that during my PhD, I didn't think would be possible for years or that I spent trying to solve problems on where you want to have a system that can generate questions or can do something…