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"There's a lot of like very interesting work around hey I'm on ChatGPT my ChatGPT is browsing around but hey it wants to buy things for me."
"Meek is dropping that into what looks like Claude saying you're not in that 88%. You already skipped the whole bottom of the pyramid."
"I also ran my favorite benchmark fried rice shrimp fried rice bench. I said 'Tell me a joke' and it gave a hyper specific example based on my life about Malibu appropriate surf puns"
"I've enjoyed making some videos in Sora. I've never enjoyed having to go to a separate app. I want all of that to live in one place."
"And what's in your case on the Apple Vision Pro? I did watch two movies last weekend in VR fully. I'm probably the only person. I think it's amazing"
"I was trying to use Grok in the X app to just take an article, paste it into Grok and say, 'Hey, can you read this to me?'"
"Even right now you can just ask Codex whatever you're building something like are there errors or are there you know security problems and it will solve them."
"I would copy them, put them into 11 reader from 11 Labs and have it read it to me in sort of a silly voice."
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"Allbirds is turning into an AI compute provider because of course it is"
"Apple App Store is also drowning in AI slop. People are treating the app store like a medium blog spitting out apps"
"the BMW XM, which is their top-of-the-line most expensive SUV, which is, you know, been sort of panned because it's overpriced, underpowered"
"This is real. It was like always this picture of Johnny Depp coming out of the ocean which they didn't have the rights to use. They would not partner with Johnny Depp. and then something about brain boosting or like limitless pill make you a genius that type of marketing"
"Mass ChatGPT cancellations thanks to OpenAI becoming the government AI supplier."
"many parents are even turning in the school-issued Chromebooks or laptops and saying, 'No, we're going back to paper.'"
"They adapted a ton of video games, Final Fantasy, Doom, and they all did okay financially, but almost all of them were panned critically."
"They adapted a ton of video games, Final Fantasy, Doom, and they all did okay financially, but almost all of them were panned critically."
"Humane has sold to HP. It seems like they're not working on that product anymore, the pin, the AI pin."
"I think they were short infosys which is an IT outsourcer."
"It definitely looked like his first ever bite of a burger. Yeah, it's not a strong performance."
"Last week the New York Times broke down the story of Medv a telehealth provider of GLP1 weight loss drugs."
"California jurors say the tech companies designed their apps to cause injury to kids."
"Look, it would be easy to dunk on my very expensive, staggeringly incompetent glasses"
"I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working."
"Trevor Milton, of course, was convicted and then pardoned for defrauding investors in his truck company, Nicola."
"They literally told me like open up QuickTime and turn it into an MP3. I was like no no no I want you to do that."
"A lot of these bigger funds, they've been like running around with players like SSNC, which I call like the evil empire, which is basically like you're using them and all of your data is kind of trapped."
"SMIC Super Micro Computer Inc. the co-founder. They caught him. They caught him red-handed."
"the free tier of Zoom where you couldn't fathom it. You're clearly going to go long on the meeting and Zoom's just like, 'Goodbye. It's over.' It kicks everyone out with no notice"
"iPads with kids just have really bad aesthetics. Kid with an iPad just zoning out, right?"
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"Even right now you can just ask Codex whatever you're building something like are there errors or are there you know security problems and it will solve them."
"We use agents all the time in our development process. My AMP, Cloud Code, Codex, whatever it is for developing."
"OpenAI announced Codex for almost everything. It can use apps on your Mac, connect to more of your tools."
"OpenAI has acquired Astral who will be joining the Codex team"
"which is why Codex is accelerating"
"they clearly need to be in the harness business too which is why Codex is accelerating."
"The agents framework, the open Clauses, the Codexes and the Claude codes that all did another 10x in token volume."
"The open clause the Codex and the Claude codes that all did another 10x in token volume."
"It feels like a great mix of Opus and Codex. Fast, conversational, great instruction following. However, it seems to lack a bit of the eagerness of Opus and precision of Codex."
"I was in Codex desktop today. 5.4-codex is not available. I still only have 5.3 codecs."
"I'm on Codex, I'm on Claude, I'm on Codex, I'm on Claude back and forth."
"I opened ChatGPT and asked it to summarize."
"I opened ChatGPT and asked it to summarize"
"People may give ChatGPT directly like an 80% approval rating and it has a lot of good reviews in the app store"
"I look almost every day at the chart of ChatGPT users download share how it's weathering the storm"
"if you opened ChatGPT and asked it to summarize"
"I did it. ChatGPT is like I don't use it like I use Google"
"This is great if you're using ChatGPT to do your homework. You can build a little citation assistant."
"I'm using ChatGPT, but I wanted to just get up to speed on Taiwan and the reason for the original civil war."
"There's a lot of like very interesting work around hey I'm on ChatGPT my ChatGPT is browsing around but hey it wants to buy things for me."
"This was the story of GPT3 through 2, the story of of Chat GBT"
"Gemini Claude and ChatGPT but not Grok are told that today is March 32nd"
"This will be rolled into ChatGPT."
"People were complaining that the advertisers that bought the first ad campaigns on ChatGPT said that the process was low tech"
"ecommerce features for ChatGPT"
"Florida man sold his house in just 5 days after letting ChatGPT handle the entire process instead of a real estate agent."
"I was listening to a podcast with the head of ChatGPT last night and there were a bunch of things."
"I went to ChatGPT and came up with a plan on how to do this"
"ChatGPT got lightning in a bottle 3 years ago. They continue to work hard, ship features, improve models, memory, voice, image, and now Sora"
"Would you rather have $10 million or access to ChatGPT in 2012 it's a viral question that's going viral right now"
"Would you rather have $10 million or access to ChatGPT in 2012?"
"OpenAI came out with ChatGPT and the numbers were just like insane. It was like 20 million users overnight and then a 100 million and then 200 million"
"OpenAI came out with ChatGPT and the numbers were just like insane. It was like 20 million users overnight."
"You dump that in ChatGPT and you say debate this car like you're a bunch of people that are experts"
"you take a link to a new bed or car or something and you dump that in ChatGPT and you say debate this car"
"He had been criticized for being too slow to adopt AI at the search giant, allowing OpenAI to release the first hit product ChatGPT in late 2022"
"ChatGPT is back at the top of the app store leaderboard."
"ChatGPT will imminently be better than the best consulting firm, better than the best investment bank, and better than the best law firm."
"I remember listening to him on Stratechery talk to Ben Thompson alongside Nat Friedman and say yeah based on ChatGPT Nvidia seems sort of undervalued."
"Yeah, based on ChatGPT, Nvidia seems sort of undervalued."
"Is this in ChatGPT? I have 5.3 instant in chatgpt.com now."
"Mass ChatGPT cancellations thanks to OpenAI becoming the government AI supplier."
"Not Cursor, but we're focused on, you know, keeping our heads down and executing."
"Cursor plans to use XAI's infrastructure to train its Composer 2.5 code."
"We are seeing a lot of anger from them to have their own code their own cursor write their own shiny object"
"How much of my spend per developer on cursor openai and anthropic is happening"
"I know you guys have talked about like open Cursor before"
"They're paying more cursor"
"Cursor is out with Composer 2. It is frontier level at coding priced at 50 cents per million input tokens."
"We just saw this with cursor everyone's like cursor is over it's dead and then you see okay well they just hit 20 two billion ARR oh 25% month over month and it's like actually things are fine."
"Cursor's internal analysis shows how hard Anthropic is subsidizing Claude code."
"I'm so excited for the cursors of the world. The overall market is growing so quickly that we're still going to see insane growth from the cursors of the world."
"After becoming the hottest, fastest growing AI coding company, Cursor is confronting a new reality. Developers may no longer need a code editor at all."
"Cursor sees the timeline turning against them, quietly give Bloomberg a two billion ARR press release. Their annual revenue topped two billion."
"Their annual revenue topped two billion in February according to a source, a figure that underscores the fast growth of the coding assistant."
"Meek is dropping that into what looks like Claude saying you're not in that 88%. You already skipped the whole bottom of the pyramid."
"Meta has a version of open claw called my claw"
"To manage growing demand for Claude, we're adjusting our five hour session limits"
"Mark German said they're using cloud all the time, right?"
"We're gonna expose all the data via MCP server and so we launched that where people are accessing it via Claude co-work and via GPT."
"Claude announced Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable opus model yet. It handles long running tasks with more rigor."
"And then Meek is dropping that into what looks like Claude saying you're not in that 88%. You already skipped the whole bottom of the pyramid."
"Anthropic Claude, right? So now they're I think if you play like that, you could potentially discover many flaws"
"what Okay. What does it mean if if the entire company has been like maxing their their Claude tokens?"
"Meta employees have been maxing their Claude tokens over the past month"
"Meta Staff used 60.2 trillion tokens over 30 days, which would pencil out to about a third of Anthropic's ARR"
"Gemini Claude and ChatGPT but not Grok are told that today is March 32nd"
"he's gone on like this big tear of like promoting AI. Specifically, Claude"
"Everyone's like oh okay there's Claude versus cloud code."
"cloud code where like it can interact with my desktop interact with local files"
"Would trust OpenClaw more than Manis after the meta acquisition with private data."
"Maybe I use Gemini, maybe Claude, maybe OpenAI, maybe ChatGPT."
"The open clause the Codex and the Claude codes that all did another 10x in token volume."
"Claude went from like 26th to 18th or it started climbing then and then you're right the the Department of War narrative really really shot up."
"Maize says, 'Imagine autonomous weapons powered by this.' Got a screenshot from Claude. Opus46 says, 'Tell me a color and I'll try to guess it.' Claude says, 'Blue.'"
"Claude going viral across non-tech people as a result. Number one on the app store."
"I'm on Codex, I'm on Claude, I'm on Codex, I'm on Claude back and forth."
"The US Treasury is terminating all use of anthropic products, including the use of Claude within our department"
"The Defense Department and other agencies using Anthropic's Claude models will have a six-month phase out period"
"I am a Manis and Anthropic maxi, so those are my two favorites. So, like I use Manis for certain tasks and Anthropic for others."
"Concentrate AI partnerships on clear winners like Gemini, OpenAI and Anthropic."
"but they have partnerships with Open AI, Anthropic, and uh Gemini at this point"
"every venture capitalist is looking at three things: the IPOs of SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI this year"
"Anthropic just passed 30 billion in run rate revenue with probably the steepest revenue growth chart in human history"
"How much of my spend per developer on cursor openai and anthropic is happening"
"Anthropic is running a parallel deal with Blackstone, Helman, Friedman, and Perra."
"API demand has been so huge and it's allowed Anthropic to develop such a solid business there"
"Anthropic has a 25-story tower. 30 billion for anthropic."
"Applying pressure to Frontier Lab pricing, eg rejecting Anthropic overtures. Anthropic wanted more money from Apple."
"The federal government will stop working with artificial intelligence company Anthropic, President Trump said"
"When Siri initially launched, they had comedy writers write out a whole bunch of jokes"
"It'll be fascinating to see what the new Siri actually looks like, what it can really do."
"I think it'll be fascinating to see what the new Siri actually looks like, what it can really do."
"I had a cassette era. I would get books on tape. Literally books on tape."
"I had a Star Wars book that was on tape and I would put it in the tape player and listen to it."
"Somebody asked Grok like, 'Hey, break it down. Like, what is actually going on here with Fanny and Freddy?'"
"I was trying to use Grok in the X app to just take an article, paste it into Grok and say, 'Hey, can you read this to me?'"
"powering that first Grok imagine mode"
"It significantly outscored XAI's Grock on most tests"
"Gemini Claude and ChatGPT but not Grok are told that today is March 32nd"
"Is it going to come from training Tesla models, Optimus or Grok"
"Well, it'll be interesting to see what the next version of Grok does."
"Grok did more revenue last month than Claude in the iPhone app store. Next at about 5% is X's Grok."
"So basically what he did is he asked people on X, how can we make Grock awesome?"
"Then somebody says, 'Add Grok.' Who is that next to Mark? I don't even know if at Grok works on threads."
"Maybe I use Grok. Maybe I you see it, you know, vended into different systems."
"What are you seeing between the ChatGPT gemini Claude deepseek perplexity grok."
"It's going to be much easier for them to onboard to a Gemini or an OpenAI or a Grok very quickly"
"It's going to be much easier for them to onboard to a Gemini or an OpenAI or a Grok very quickly"
"I have been reading the Journal for a full year now or two"
"there's a fun article in the Wall Street Journal, a very bizarre article about a deadly civil war that tore apart a group of chimpanzees"
"there's actually a profile in the Wall Street Journal in the exchange this weekend"
"the Wall Street Journal has an article about this is a scoop from Berber Jin"
"So this is in the Wall Street Journal. The federal government will stop working with artificial intelligence company Anthropic, President Trump said"
"AWS knows this. They run a dedicated PE sales function."
"AWS was initially attractive to startups. Companies like Door Dash, Dropbox, Pinterest, Slack, and Stripe were among many that built their businesses on AWS."
"I don't need to go set up an AWS instance"
"You're basically gonna try to build AWS in like two years."
"You're basically gonna try to build AWS in like two years."
"This is what happened with the AWS IPO when AWS was like finally the SEC demands that we publish these numbers instead of just baking them into the rest of the numbers."
"This is not taking the data from AWS east to California. This is within that one server."
"This is not taking the data from AWS east to California."
"I have I of course we started asking it jokes right away. So I'll pull up the joke. I said, 'Tell me a joke.'"
"I also ran my favorite benchmark fried rice shrimp fried rice bench. I said 'Tell me a joke' and it gave a hyper specific example based on my life about Malibu appropriate surf puns"
"We were early customers of Databricks and Snowflake as an example that let us invest in those companies"
"We were early customers of Databricks and Snowflake as an example that let us invest in those companies"
"reading Vanity Fair and Premier Magazine and anything I could get my hands on"
"In 2013, Vanity Fair wrote a profile about Larry Ellison that is absolutely unhinged. I've never seen a profile like this about a tech CEO."
"I learned as much about that industry reading the New York Times on Mondays, which was kind of the digital edition"
"reading Vanity Fair and Premier Magazine and anything I could get my hands on"
"I got woefully addicted to a poker themed roglike deck building game called Bellatro, which I don't think anyone here has played, but this game is amazing. So much fun."
"I got woefully addicted to a poker themed roguelike deck building game called Balatro, which I don't think anyone here has played, but this game is amazing. So much fun."
"I do love Wild Roman."