Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…Yeah. It's mind-boggling for me to think about from a scale perspective, honestly. And the way I think about it is 10% of the world, and growing, by the way, it's shooting up, come to ChatGPT and use it every day, or sorry, every week. And this point, I just want to double down on this point you're making. OpenAI's mission was to make AI available to all of humanity. And I think some people diss that, they're like, "Oh, it costs money. " And the fact that there's a free version of ChatGPT that anybody can use that is not so different from the most powerful AI model that exists in the world for free, that's not gated, that anyone can use. If you're a billionaire, there's only so much more you can get out of AI than what someone in a village in Africa can get. And I know that's always been really important to OpenAI. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, that's why I think we've leaned into the health work, we've leaned into education's going to be very interesting here. The other insane kind of trend here is the free model has gone so smart over time. The free model back in 2022 was good at the time, but it's like nothing compared to what you get today because you get GPT-5 today. And so the raising the floor across the world is kind of something that we're really trying to do. And we view it as part of our mission. The other flip side of this, by the way, is talking about the billionaires or whatever. I know people love saying you're using the same iPhone that Mark Zuckerberg's probably using or what the billionaires are using, but for like $20 a month, you're basically using the same AI that the billionaires are using. For $200 a month, you get the same pro model that all the billionaires are using, but they're probably not using Pro for everything. They're probably just using the plus tier ones for their day in and day out. And so yeah, this kind of democratization and just spreading of this benefit across all of the world is something that's really meaningful to us and something that drives a lot of what we do.…

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