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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.