ChatGPT, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where ChatGPT comes up
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.