Sam Altman
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that, you know, when somebody comes to them with a marketplace in diamonds, their understanding of the diamond marketplace becomes so rich so fast that we can evaluate companies faster than we're also seeing Chamath.
Before we call our lawyers, when we have a legal question about a document, we start putting in, you know, let's say the the standard note template or the standard safe template, we put in the new one. And there's a really cool project by Google called notebook LL, LM, where you can put in multiple documents, and you can start asking questions.
Before we call our lawyers, when we have a legal question about a document, we start putting in, you know, let's say the the standard note template or the standard safe template, we put in the new one. And there's a really cool project by Google called notebook LL, LM, where you can put in multiple documents, and you can start asking questions.
So imagine you take every single legal document sacks that Yammer had when you had Chamath as an investor, I'm not sure if he's on the board. And you can start asking questions about the documents. And we have had people make changes to these documents, and it immediately finds and explains them.
So imagine you take every single legal document sacks that Yammer had when you had Chamath as an investor, I'm not sure if he's on the board. And you can start asking questions about the documents. And we have had people make changes to these documents, and it immediately finds and explains them.
And so everybody's just getting so goddamn smart, so fast using these tools, that I insisted that every person on the team when they hit control tab, It opens a chat GPT-4 window in 01, and we burned out our credits immediately. It stopped us. It said, you have to stop using it for the rest of the month. Chamath, your thoughts on this?
And so everybody's just getting so goddamn smart, so fast using these tools, that I insisted that every person on the team when they hit control tab, It opens a chat GPT-4 window in 01, and we burned out our credits immediately. It stopped us. It said, you have to stop using it for the rest of the month. Chamath, your thoughts on this?
All right. Your thoughts, Sax. You operate in the SaaS space with System of Records and investing in these type of companies. Give us your take.
All right. Your thoughts, Sax. You operate in the SaaS space with System of Records and investing in these type of companies. Give us your take.
In fairness, app stores are a great way to allow people to build on your platform and cover those niche cases.
In fairness, app stores are a great way to allow people to build on your platform and cover those niche cases.
Can you talk about his philanthropy first? Okay, let's get back to focus here. Let's get focused, everybody.
Can you talk about his philanthropy first? Okay, let's get back to focus here. Let's get focused, everybody.
Right. Yeah. That's the very interesting piece for me is I'm, you know, watching startups, you know, working on this, the AI first ones, I think are going to come to it with a totally different cost structure. The idea of paying for seats. And I mean, some of these seats are 5,000 per person per year.
Right. Yeah. That's the very interesting piece for me is I'm, you know, watching startups, you know, working on this, the AI first ones, I think are going to come to it with a totally different cost structure. The idea of paying for seats. And I mean, some of these seats are 5,000 per person per year.
A lot of startups now are doing consumption-based pricing. So they're saying, you know, how many... How many sales calls are you doing? How many are we analyzing as opposed to how many sales executives do you have? Because when you have agents, as we're talking about, those agents are going to do a lot of the work. So we're going to see the number of people working at companies become fixed.
A lot of startups now are doing consumption-based pricing. So they're saying, you know, how many... How many sales calls are you doing? How many are we analyzing as opposed to how many sales executives do you have? Because when you have agents, as we're talking about, those agents are going to do a lot of the work. So we're going to see the number of people working at companies become fixed.
And I think the static team size that we're seeing at a lot of large companies is only going to continue. It's going to be down and to the right. And if you think you're going to get a high-paying job at a big tech company, And you have to beat the agent. You're going to have to beat the maestro who has five agents working for them. I think this is going to be a completely different world.
And I think the static team size that we're seeing at a lot of large companies is only going to continue. It's going to be down and to the right. And if you think you're going to get a high-paying job at a big tech company, And you have to beat the agent. You're going to have to beat the maestro who has five agents working for them. I think this is going to be a completely different world.
I want to get back to OpenAI with a couple of other pieces.