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The Truth About The AI Bubble · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:19 Harj Taggar I replaced my Google searches with Gemini and I just sort of trusted that Google's, I think like the groundings API and its ability to actually like use the Google index to give you like real time information correctly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:19 Harj Taggar I replaced my Google searches with Gemini and I just sort of trusted that Google's, I think like the groundings API and its ability to actually like use the Google index to give you like real time information correctly.
- ▶ 14:21 Diana Hu Google are yet to be started because those come in in the deployment phase, because right now I think these things, things are still getting built up.
- ▶ 14:55 Garry Tan Uh, suddenly Google's doing it.
- ▶ 21:23 Garry Tan Varun Mohan had gone over to Google. 2 times in the scene
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:42 Spencer Skates I mean, honestly, I joke about this, but anything Google's trying to do, I think that Google is the worst B to B company of all time, and there's an incredible opportunity to compete with them. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:57 Spencer Skates Workspace stuff.
- ▶ 26:58 Spencer Skates I think what the Notion guys, for example, are doing as a competitor to Google Docs is, is very exciting.
The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:31 Mike Mignano Maybe you and I have, uh, missed the, the browser opportunity now that we have Dia and Comet, but I think back to two, three years ago, I saw these browsers and I just, I just passed on the opportunity because I'm like, oh, you, you can't…
From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:04 Jake Heller If you've ever seen like a real person's Google queries, they're barely legible.
Ask These Questions Before Starting An AI Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:55 unnamed speaker So Google recently released, um, an HTA protocol to standardize how agents would talk to agents.
Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:31 Ankit Gupta I think back to the days of the early days of Google, for example, where there's these cases where they basically bought relatively cheap consumer chips, and then they optimized the software to make it so you can actually get the most bang…
- ▶ 12:51 Ankit Gupta Like, FAIR and DeepMind were hiring lots of people out of top PhD programs and doing lots of things.
- ▶ 25:17 Ankit Gupta Or if you guys are using TPU versus GPU, are these, you know, Google TPU versus NVIDIA GPU, do you actually have to think as an engineer differently about what it means to train on these two?
- ▶ 26:43 Ankit Gupta Yeah, on your, on your point about sometimes the computer just breaks, I definitely remember you giving me an anecdote of, uh, my company at the time was doing something with Google TPUs, and I was telling you something, some anecdote… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:43 Ankit Gupta Yeah, on your, on your point about sometimes the computer just breaks, I definitely remember you giving me an anecdote of, uh, my company at the time was doing something with Google TPUs, and I was telling you something, some anecdote… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:11 Ankit Gupta It's like the original Google algorithm of, like, links and, like, which links get touched the most, basically.
Why Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:17 Jesse Pollak Now, the thing that Ethereum pushed forward over the last five years was they said, hey, if we want to get to the sort of scale that can enable, you know, the next Google to grow, that serves billions of people, there's inevitably going to…
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:49 Aaron Levie We started the company in 2005, and this was a, this was a time where you have to kind of, you know, literally go back 20 years and think about a world where the internet was much slower, browsers were way worse, we didn't have the iPhone,…
- ▶ 5:20 Aaron Levie It just like emerged one day and it was like, this is like, it seems kind of cool and efficient, but if you're in an IT department, the cloud was actually very scary because you're taking your servers that you manage, you can see them,…
- ▶ 24:15 David Lieb I mean, I saw this at Google photos, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:17 David Lieb And when we proposed that we should build Google photos, a lot of people at Google were like, why would you do that?
- ▶ 34:25 Aaron Levie Um, in our business, Google photos, you tend to have this, this curve, which is the most active data needs to be, you know, in the, in, in basically the part of your servers and in the regions that are most sort of fast, you know, fast…
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:50 Amjad Masad I'm not going to sell to scale AI so that they can sell to, to open AI or Google, all those.
The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:21 Bob McGrew yeah, I, I think, yeah, maybe, maybe that's a really key point here, is that the kind of company you have to build is a learning company, and I think everybody wants to build a learning company, but if you're a company like Google or Meta,…
Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:15 Michael Truell We looked on Google.
- ▶ 3:41 Michael Truell We had no idea how to build it, and so again, you know, started the place where one would start, which is Google, and kind of went down a lot of rabbit holes, and, you know, took us into a place of, uh, learning about genetic algorithms,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:22 Michael Truell Each of us kind of had our own little robot dog moment where one of my co-founders, he worked on, uh, trying to build a competitor, Google actually, uh, using LMs in, in twenty-twenty-one and, and training his own, um, and training his own… 2 times in the scene
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:22 Max Junestrand We were playing around in AI and legal way before ChatGPT, and we were using these early models from BERT, coming from Google.
- ▶ 38:11 Max Junestrand I mean, Google is building Google Workspace with Gemini.
- ▶ 38:11 Max Junestrand I mean, Google is building Google Workspace with Gemini.
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:16 Chas Englander And so rather than having to go and gather that information, once that release happens, this one pager effect, it was actually three pages, a cover page, your main page, and a legal page, just appears in your SharePoint or Google Drive,…
Nobel Laureate John Jumper: AI is Revolutionizing Scientific Discovery · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:59 John Jumper And after this, I joined Google DeepMind. 2 times in the scene
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:25 Aravind Srinivas Google I.O. last year was AI overview, and perplexity's dead.
- ▶ 2:42 Aravind Srinivas And Chrome was exciting when each tab was its own process.
- ▶ 3:04 David Lieb Um, and I think Sundar at Google probably would say that's the direction we're headed as well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:38 Aravind Srinivas Google already has one called Chrome, so it's completely reasonable to expect them to do it.
- ▶ 11:32 David Lieb And at that point, like, on that New Year's Eve, did you in your head think, I'm building a thing that could really compete with Google and, like, take over a market as big as what Google offers? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:49 Aravind Srinivas Sundar wrote a blog post about Bard. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:01 David Lieb Yeah, I heard you talk about this recently, but, you know, Google specifically has been trying to build perplexity-like experiences, um, and, you know, you joked. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:11 David Lieb Yeah, they just, like, changed the name of it, each Google I.O., and then not really.
- ▶ 16:38 Aravind Srinivas The Google I.O., exactly the same set of comments repeated this year. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:54 Aravind Srinivas Um, because, like, like, they know that, they're all thinking, like, I don't, I don't even expect these things, or the people in the company are, like, thinking Google wouldn't build this, or something like that.
- ▶ 18:31 David Lieb What, what do you think will be the very short-term things that your browser will do so much better than what I can get today in Chrome that will make me want to switch?
- ▶ 19:40 David Lieb We look for deep mind researchers also.
- ▶ 27:43 David Lieb Your main competitor, Google, their business model, as you've talked about, is selling ads, and you think that prevents them from being really good at what you're doing. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:28 David Lieb Well, you guys are the perfect example of how it's possible to go up against somebody as big as Google.
- ▶ 32:55 unnamed speaker So, if you were in Sundar's shoes or in, um, like the Google co-founder's shoes, like, what would you do? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:49 Aravind Srinivas Just like how Google graduated from Google search to Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:49 Aravind Srinivas Just like how Google graduated from Google search to Chrome. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:49 Aravind Srinivas Just like how Google graduated from Google search to Chrome.
- ▶ 39:59 Aravind Srinivas Like you're trusting some data provider who's tracking the live game, the TV that's showing you the number, or Apple or Google's, like, AccuWeather, all these things.
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:26 Jared Friedman But when Google first came, when the internet first came out, um, a lot of, uh, teachers would say you're not allowed to use Google.
François Chollet: How We Get To AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:56 François Chollet Or more recently, the AlphaEvol system from DeepMind.
Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:04 Dr. Fei-Fei Li And then I did go to Google to learn a lot about business.
- ▶ 28:08 Dr. Fei-Fei Li In Google Cloud and B to B and all those.
Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products · Y Combinator
Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:52 Sam Altman I was, I had Gary's job then, and we were, you know, there was like all this other great stuff to do that would work, all these great startups, and AGI was like, kind of, a pipe dream, and also, even if it was possible, DeepMind seemed…
- ▶ 19:13 Sam Altman For a long time, ChatGPT was like a Google replacement. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:42 Sam Altman You know, you worked at, like, Google, or went to this college, or I never cared.
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:59 Andrej Karpathy But if you're actually also building your own hardware and you're training on TPUs if you're Google, that's kind of like the Intel model where you own your fab.
- ▶ 26:30 Andrej Karpathy I took this picture using, uh, Google Glass at the time, and many of you are so young that you might not even know what that is.
- ▶ 33:04 Andrej Karpathy Um, so for example, if you try to add Google login to your web page, I know this is very small, but just a huge amount of instructions of this clerk library telling me how to integrate this, and this is crazy, like it's telling me go to…
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:02 Michael Truell You know, another one of us worked on building, uh, actually a competitor to Google, um, using, using neural networks.
- ▶ 16:18 Michael Truell It's actually one that DeepMind's worked on a bit too.
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:18 Harj Taggar Um, one thing I found useful is as you're using it, if you just note down in a Google doc things that you're seeing, just, um, the outputs not being how you want or ways that you can think to improve it, you can just write those in note…
- ▶ 17:41 Garry Tan I mean, I think the whole thesis of Palantir at some level was that, um, if you look at Meta, back then it was called Facebook, or Google, or any of the top software startups,
How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:30 Pete Koomen I know many people who work for Google, they're incredibly smart.
- ▶ 6:59 Tom Blomfield We don't want the AI to say anything that's going to embarrass Google. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:01 Tom Blomfield It's like, um, Google put Gmail out and if you write, uh, an email full of profanity, that's on you, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:42 Tom Blomfield You pull it from Google docs, you review it.
DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market · Y Combinator
From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:20 Josh Reeves You could just buy some keywords on Google, and then all of a sudden start, you know, getting real people calling you with questions they have that they want expert advice on, and what we realized within a week or two was, ah, the…
- ▶ 23:12 Josh Reeves So they're either left on their own Googling it, or, you know, they start working with a company like Gusto.
- ▶ 25:15 Harj Taggar The grants will be 20,000 dollars in cash and another 90,000 dollars in compute credits from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.
AI Interfaces Of The Future | Design Review · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:31 Raphael Schaad And you know, when you Googled kind of in the past, um, you just had a list of websites, a list of basically the references or the links and they were your destination.
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:12 Aravind Srinivas It was not like I want to go and kill Google, like that sort of a motivation.
- ▶ 0:21 David Lieb Today, my view of perplexity is a more intelligent Google search that's really useful in certain scenarios.
- ▶ 1:54 Aravind Srinivas That was the rage at the time because of AlphaGo and DeepMind.
- ▶ 2:07 Aravind Srinivas So then I got into that and, uh, did more internships at Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:03 Aravind Srinivas But it was like, how to build the next Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:11 Aravind Srinivas When DeepMind had this, um, Android environment that they built, where, like, they, they kind of wanted to prototype, uh, mobile app using agent, uh, that knows when to use what apps and control the apps.
- ▶ 5:48 Aravind Srinivas Of course Google's gonna do this, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:50 Aravind Srinivas It's not even, like, you go build a better Google Docs,
- ▶ 6:43 Aravind Srinivas Yeah, so I was like, adoshes enough to go and pitch to the first seed investor of ours, Elad Gill, that like, hey, like, um, you know, I want to disrupt Google, um, but I kind of want to do it from pixels from a glass, and I think that's… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:35 Aravind Srinivas And, uh, you also stand a chance against the legacy system that Google has built, which is a lot more in the first style.
- ▶ 16:17 David Lieb You have this, like, initial momentum, and you, you said earlier, it wasn't until hindsight that you had the idea that, like, oh, we actually have a chance of competing with somebody like a Google. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:29 Aravind Srinivas Yeah, so I never really thought about the Google competition in a serious way, to be very honest, um, because I knew that, like, the, they cannot make this exact product on the Google homepage. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:32 Aravind Srinivas And then the next week, actually, Google also releases a blog from Sundar saying they're announcing something called the Bard, which is screenshots.
- ▶ 19:02 David Lieb Yeah, having spent almost a decade at Google myself, um, I see a lot of the culture of the early days of Google, like the things I've learned about Larry or about Sundar, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:00 Aravind Srinivas So I was very influenced by that style of design, like including like subtle things, the Chrome search bar, if you've already gone to a site, it's already there.
- ▶ 27:37 David Lieb Like today, my view of perplexity is a more intelligent Google search that's really useful in certain scenarios.
- ▶ 28:02 Aravind Srinivas You go to Google. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:02 David Lieb If I talk to people at Google, they would say, yep, that's what we're building. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:04 Aravind Srinivas So other, other places, YouTube and cloud, but the margins are all coming in search, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:43 Aravind Srinivas But they also did a lot of other boring work of bringing Google Finance, Google Shopping, Google Flights.
- ▶ 33:43 Aravind Srinivas But they also did a lot of other boring work of bringing Google Finance, Google Shopping, Google Flights.
- ▶ 33:43 Aravind Srinivas But they also did a lot of other boring work of bringing Google Finance, Google Shopping, Google Flights.
The Right (And Wrong) Way To Spend Money At Your Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:37 Brad Flora And the only way that they got customers was through AdWords. 2 times in the scene
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