Did OpenAI Steal the Navier-Stokes Solution? | E2335
Jason Calacanis, Yohei Nakajima, Ben Lerer, and Rebecca Lynn debate whether AI companies can be trusted with proprietary data and how real productivity gains are changing hiring decisions.
The gist
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Avoid putting sensitive or proprietary data into frontier AI APIs, since these companies have financial incentives to use it.
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Organizations seeing 10x efficiency gains are replacing employees who resist AI, not employees who use it.
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AI model cycles are so fast, roughly every 3 months, that investors should bet on adaptable founders rather than current products.
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Companies are running multiple AI tools at once to avoid lock-in, so total AI spending is rising even if individual platforms consolidate.
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"I saw us go from 20% of people logging into Claude to like 50% then 60% then 70%. The top two people, they were all using AI and their impact became three, five, 10 times that o..."
"Go.ai formerly known as Abacus — they do on-prem and they basically make this go-in-a-box and you order this for your company. You're now compliant if you're healthcare, finance..."
"I've got a bot named specifically for Tokyo and specifically for the Middle East. This is my new workflow — I just take a screenshot of whatever's interesting that I see and the..."
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"I saw us go from 20% of people logging into Claude to like 50% then 60% then 70%. The top two people, they were all using AI and their impact became three, five, 10 times that o..."
"Go.ai formerly known as Abacus — they do on-prem and they basically make this go-in-a-box and you order this for your company. You're now compliant if you're healthcare, finance..."
"I've got a bot named specifically for Tokyo and specifically for the Middle East. This is my new workflow — I just take a screenshot of whatever's interesting that I see and the..."
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"We're a Claude shop here. We have a bunch of information living in Claude, hopefully in secure ways."
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