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The Truth About The AI Bubble · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:14 Diana Hu And one of the shocking things is that for the longest time, OpenAI was the clear winner for all of last year, last couple of batches, though that number has been coming down. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:47 Diana Hu It's, uh, it's kind of the classic where open AI sort of has the, uh, black cat energy, and almost like, uh, Anthropic is kind of more the happy-go-lucky, a bit more very helpful golden retriever.
- ▶ 7:09 Diana Hu I had some conversations with a number of founders where before they might have been loyalists to, let's say, OpenAI models or Anthropic, and I just had some conversations recently with them, and these are founders that are running larger… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:21 Jared Friedman When I talk to undergrads, this is like a common question that I get is like, oh, like I heard it's a big AI bubble because like, there's all this like crazy roundtripping going between Nvidia and open AI and like, is it, is it all fake?
- ▶ 17:36 Harj Taggar I guess that maybe at both ends, there's like the people who can raise the capital to go and actually try and build a head-on competitor to open AI, which there are very, very few, like maybe Ilya with SSI, but then more so within YC,… 5 times in the scene
From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:49 James Hawkins Um, what actually happened was I went on vacation and read, um, about some of the motives for why some of the co-founders built OpenAI in the first place.
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:05 Spencer Skates Like, no question, if you were using, I mean, started by Cursor, but then, you know, all these other amazing tools, Cloud Code, Codex, like tons, you know, tons and tons of others, it was, it was very clear that you would be a lot more…
- ▶ 12:10 Spencer Skates Like I think he has done an exceptional job stating a very ambitious vision, getting a lot of people rallied behind it at open AI.
The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator
The Startup Playbook for Hiring Your First Engineers and AEs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:28 David Paffenholz And so a few logos on this slide are kind of later stage or large stage growth companies, Stripe, OpenAI, and Anthropic, but really most series B and onwards companies are going to fit into this category.
Startup Advice: AI GTM, Pivoting & How To Hire · Y Combinator
- ▶ 37:29 Nicolas Dessaigne And, uh, if people don't share, like don't trust open AI, they are not going to trust the small startups you're starting.
Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:30 Nick Joseph Yeah, so let's see, I was at Vicarious, uh, and then at OpenAI, uh, before Anthropic.
- ▶ 2:30 Ankit Gupta So next you went to OpenAI. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:55 Ankit Gupta And then one more question about earlier is, you know, you had mentioned, you know, you hadn't really done a lot of this work before, maybe sometime at OpenAI and those early days in Anthropik.
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:25 Amjad Masad If you've used OpenAI operator, it's the idea that models can go into a computer, you know, click around and use a computer like a human does.
- ▶ 12:22 Amjad Masad So the hype today's test time compute, if you think about the sort of O-three or like O-series models or DeepSeq R-one, the kind of main insight there is the more tokens the model is able to consume or produce,
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 49:59 Jared Friedman This might be a little bit forced, but it's almost like open AI. 2 times in the scene
Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:00 Max Junestrand And in the beginning, I think open AI and GPT was really the only model that you could serve via Azure.
Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:58 unnamed speaker And, you know, at YC, we have kind of a call for more design founders, and then maybe the most, um, surprising and impressive thing was, uh, OpenAI acquiring Johnny Ive and his company for more than six billion dollars, which is pretty… 3 times in the scene
Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything · Y Combinator
- ▶ 37:38 unnamed speaker It's also what OpenAI and Anthroping and others are doing right now with their LLMs.
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:50 Aravind Srinivas Now, OpenAI is trying to buy Cursor's competitor, Anthropic Launch Codex, like, Cloud Code. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:50 Aravind Srinivas Now, OpenAI is trying to buy Cursor's competitor, Anthropic Launch Codex, like, Cloud Code.
- ▶ 13:38 Aravind Srinivas But now it's a complete reversal of the situation, thanks to open AI or anthropic or open source models.
- ▶ 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,
- ▶ 22:38 Aravind Srinivas Like, there are cursor competitors, perplexity competitors, like, OpenAI will have, like, their own cursor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:21 David Lieb Or maybe like at the beginning, before it started to take off, what gave you the hope to keep working on it, versus just go back to OpenAI and get your job?
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:11 Garry Tan Like I'm really taken by to what degree both OpenAI and SpaceX, for instance, where, uh, you know, the Genesis came from like interest and a hunch and just
- ▶ 37:47 Garry Tan This is like actually a really powerful moment because literally you have a hundred, you know, I think of, uh, O-three as basically about a 130 IQ, maybe O-three pro can be even smarter than that. 2 times in the scene
François Chollet: How We Get To AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:31 François Chollet OpenAI previewed its, ah, all three model, and they used a version of it that was, ah, fine-tuned specifically on Arc, and that showed human-level performance on that benchmark versus time.
- ▶ 3:31 François Chollet OpenAI previewed its, ah, all three model, and they used a version of it that was, ah, fine-tuned specifically on Arc, and that showed human-level performance on that benchmark versus time.
- ▶ 15:14 François Chollet Either you have no fluid intelligence, in which case you will score near zero, like Bayes-Elems, or you have non-zero fluid intelligence, in which case you will instantly score very high, like the O-Street model from OpenAI, for instance.
Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:12 Garry Tan If opening eyed can come out the gate with, you know, just this insane hockey stick, um, you know, where there's smoke, usually there's fire.
- ▶ 5:29 Garry Tan I mean, oh three with reasoning is pretty impressive.
- ▶ 22:32 Garry Tan I don't know, prognosticate, like, you know, what does this mean for OpenAI? 4 times in the scene
Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:25 Garry Tan I mean, OpenAI itself, uh, is a true inspiration for any really, really ambitious person. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:45 Sam Altman Uh, next year will be our 10 year anniversary. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:43 Garry Tan Okay, so some people in this room might be thinking, like, should I try to start an OpenAI scale thing off the bat? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:59 Garry Tan What surprises you the most with the latest models like O-three and what emergent behaviors or use cases are standing out to you right now? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 8:18 Garry Tan Uh, you know, I've heard rumors that MCP is coming to OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:33 Garry Tan You know, one of the classic questions is, you know, how do I, uh, start a startup that doesn't get run over by open AI? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:50 Sam Altman I can say this one because it got publicized, um, in early, not early, a few years into OpenAI, where Elon sent us this really mean email.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 27:14 Sam Altman When I think back about the OpenAI story, I often think about just the kind of key few tens of people that did the amazing work that led to what we all have now.
- ▶ 32:15 Garry Tan Let's talk about, um, being CEO of OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:43 Sam Altman I, I cannot recall ever thinking until like after starting OpenAI that they were going to be so obviously related. 2 times in the scene
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:42 Andrej Karpathy So, um, LLM labs like OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropica, et cetera, they spend CapEx to train the LLMs, and this is kind of equivalent to building out a grid, and then there's OpEx to serve that intelligence over APIs to all of us.
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:42 Michael Truell The other thing that got us really excited was seeing research come out of open AI and other places that showed there were these very predictable, um, natural laws that showed if you scaled up the data and you scale up the compute that…
- ▶ 20:31 Michael Truell Um, we, I mean, being programmers ourselves and being inspired by products like Copilot and, uh, also papers like the early codex papers. 2 times in the scene
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator
How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:11 Tom Blomfield And so, I think, like, Google were really on the cutting edge of this transformer technology, and were like, leapfrogged by OpenAI, just because I was too cautious to put stuff out there.
How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:19 Tom Blomfield Maybe it's one of the open AI models.
Figma's Dylan Field: Exploring the idea maze, vibe coding, and the power of “locking in” · Y Combinator
Vibe Coding Is The Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:49 Jared Friedman Well, O three is infinitely better at debugging than
AI Interfaces Of The Future | Design Review · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:35 Aaron Epstein Okay, so I get a bunch of, uh, companies that I'm sure many of the audience has heard of, uh, OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, um, and it's got some information like, uh, HQ location and industry and website URLs. 2 times in the scene
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:04 Aravind Srinivas Life really changed when I got to do an internship at OpenAI, and Ilya Sutskiver was there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:50 David Lieb How did you get the kind of activation energy to quit your great job at OpenAI and go do that?
- ▶ 8:17 Aravind Srinivas We tried to do it with the OpenAI codex models.
- ▶ 11:55 Aravind Srinivas OpenAI even had a bot when I worked there called the Truthbot, which John, John built with this team.
- ▶ 31:08 David Lieb Um, probably same at OpenAI, probably the same at Anthropic. 2 times in the scene
The Right (And Wrong) Way To Spend Money At Your Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:09 Gustaf Alströmer There's open AI.
Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:48 Garry Tan Bob McGrew, formerly Chief Research Officer at OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:58 Garry Tan You know, what was that like early at OpenAI? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:04 Garry Tan What were some of the earliest things that you remember working on and how did that play into what everyone knows OpenAI to be now? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:59 Garry Tan How is it that it was OpenAI that, you know, made the right decisions and sort of found, you know, large language models first? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:11 Garry Tan Like, I mean, what was it about, um, open AI where you were able to sort of avoid that? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:45 Bob McGrew The thing that's been really exciting, of course, is, you know, going from, ah, the LLM scaling of pre-training, where you're just bringing bigger and bigger corpuses and trying to predict the next token, and shifting gears, and using…
- ▶ 11:45 Bob McGrew The thing that's been really exciting, of course, is, you know, going from, ah, the LLM scaling of pre-training, where you're just bringing bigger and bigger corpuses and trying to predict the next token, and shifting gears, and using…
- ▶ 11:45 Bob McGrew The thing that's been really exciting, of course, is, you know, going from, ah, the LLM scaling of pre-training, where you're just bringing bigger and bigger corpuses and trying to predict the next token, and shifting gears, and using…
- ▶ 13:49 Garry Tan Things are basically playing out the way that original post on the OpenAI website, um, sort of described it.
- ▶ 13:56 Garry Tan It's, uh, you know, reasoners are here, and then, uh, I'm hearing a ton about innovators, so taking a thing like, uh, O-three or, you know, maybe when O-three pro comes out, that'll be a real moment where you can, uh, hook that up to a bio… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:14 Bob McGrew This is a really hard problem with O one with O three, you know, you're getting longer and longer chains.
- ▶ 17:15 Bob McGrew And so I think we're going to see this a lot going forward, especially if you, if you look at, you know, the Sonnet versus Haiku, you know, Gemini versus Gemini flash, you know, O-one versus O-one mini, four O-mini, um, every lab has…