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The ChatGPT Moment: When 8 Years of Growth Happens in 8 Months

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It hit 1 billion searches per day in under a year : Let’s put this in perspective: ChatGPT compressed what took Google over a decade into roughly 300 days. The AI Adoption Explosion Across the Board But ChatGPT isn’t alone. OpenAI projects ChatGPT is running about 8 years ahead of Google’s original trajectory.

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How SaaStr Fund-Backed RevenueCat Went from a $1.5M Round at $7M Valuation in 2018 to $500M+ Today

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– RevenueCat now powers 1/3d of all new mobile subscriptions world-wide – New Apps using RevenueCat doubled in last 6 months – Powering monetization for ChatGPT, Notion, VSCO, Runna, and pic.twitter.com/McFmCBZ0eE — Jason SaaStr.Ai

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Anthropic May Never Catch OpenAI. But It’s Already 40% as Big.

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Anthropic is ~40% as big as OpenAI by ARR, despite its consumer app Claude being just 5% the size of ChatGPT. While OpenAI dominates headlines with ChatGPT’s viral success, Anthropic has quietly built a business that’s already 40% the size of OpenAI’s revenue, despite having a fraction of the consumer awareness.

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The Top 10 Learnings from Launching SaaStr’s Own AI: What Every B2B Founder Needs to Know

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and try it here : I did a deep dive live on Workshop Wednesday with my Top 10 Learnings, and brought in Simon Farshid, founder of Assistant UI , which offers the leading platform to add ChatGPT-like interfaces to your own app and to add some color. Importantly, it was vastly better than what I would have gotten from a generic ChatGPT prompt.

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ChatGPT for SEO: the comprehensive guide

When I saw chatgpt is extremely powerful, I decided to make a comprehensive guide covering start to end. this means keyword research to link building.

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AI Agents in B2B: Top 10 Learnings from Aaron Levie, CEO of Box and IBM’s VP of AI

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AI Agents Represent a Fundamental Shift from Software to Digital Labor The Key Insight : We’ve moved beyond chat interfaces to AI that actually performs work autonomously. Then we had assistants like ChatGPT. Levie explained the evolution: “We’ve had AI models for five-plus years.

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The Vertical SaaS Gold Rush: Why Non-Tech B2B Is Growing 250%+ Faster

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Predictions for H2 2025 and 2026 1.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs.