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Srinivas: OpenAI's built-in search features in ChatGPT did not kill Perplexity
“OpenAI has perplexity within ChatGPT that did not kill any of these companies.”
Aravind Srinivas Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 22:46 Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
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Steinberger: Major AI platforms lock user memory data into proprietary silos
“There's no, there's, definitely there's no way for a different company to get your memories out. So if I was like a company who like provides chat services, You could use me, but then I couldn't access the memories. So, like, the companies try to, like, bound …”
Peter Steinberger Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 13:54 OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
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Habib: Fine-tuning is what separated ChatGPT from earlier GPT models
“If you look at what the difference is between ChatGPT or the most recent OpenAI Text DaVinci Three model, and what's been in the platform for two years and has not gotten as much attention, the difference is fine tuning. Like it's the same base model, more or …”
Raza Habib Feb 28, 2023 ▶ 4:38 The REAL potential of generative AI · Y Combinator
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Friedman: YC Has Primarily Funded AI Companies Since ChatGPT
“For the last few years since ChatGPT, YC has been funding mainly AI companies”
Jared Friedman May 27, 2026 ▶ 1:09 Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
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Srinivas: Perplexity launched seven days after ChatGPT, which lacked web search
“We launched it seven days after the ChatGPT launch, especially at a time when ChatGPT did not have web search.”
Aravind Srinivas Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 10:23 Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
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