Issue No. 40Week ending Sunday, October 4, 2026507 episodes · 2183 articles
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OpenAI: how often the top podcasts talk about it.

OpenAI came up in 36 of 89 episodes (40%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, about the same share as in the earlier weeks (39%).

36 of 89episodes, four weeks to Sep 27

Share of episodes, four weeks at a time

33%May 1017 of 5239%Jun 718 of 4638%Jul 526 of 6949%Aug 227 of 5538%Aug 3021 of 5540%Sep 2736 of 89
Share of episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover that said “OpenAI” or “Open AI” at least twice, in blocks of four weeks. Each label is the block's last Sunday. The newest block is the orange bar on the right.
The 36 episodes behind the newest bar

Earliest mentions in our archive

The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.

“…belief. People like this one. I said openAI loses its lead in the AI race. Uh and in fact that has happened if you…”

All-In Podcast · week ending Jan 4 · Watch at 56:20 ↗

All-In's 2026 Predictions

“…at this point in history, especially in machine learning, like at least at the machine learning labs like OpenAI. But no other discipline really had that. You had to become a manager…”

Founders Podcast · week ending Jan 18 · Watch at 31:18 ↗

Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify

“…what's already running on Verscell. OpenAI, Poly Market, Stripe. Verscell built the modern platform for the web,…”

Acquired · week ending Apr 12 · Watch at 54:23 ↗

Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio)

“Anthropic and Google are mostly running their own accelerators or running TPUs and Trainium. But even OpenAI, using GPUs, has Triton because they need their own kernels. Down to CUDA C++, instead of using cuBLAS and NCCL, they've got their own stack which…”

Dwarkesh Podcast · week ending Apr 12 · Watch at 25:30 ↗

Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist?

“Who is going to win the enterprise race open AI or anthropic? Oh god, that that's impossible. Back to the cloud…”

20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Apr 19 · Watch at 47:15 ↗

Aaron Levie

“…companies. Didn't have distribution. Wasn't the first to go. Openai was way ahead. It was just like no way Anthropic…”

Lenny's Podcast · week ending Apr 19 · Watch at 28:57 ↗

How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Cla…

Most recent mentions

The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.

“…negative 50% by June as agent token use spiked 20fold on rented open AI and anthropic models, Bloomberg reports. And…”

TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 2:21 ↗

Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLar…

“…be here today if it weren't for Anthropic, OpenAI, XAI, and the like. But the reality is is like the impact to…”

No Priors · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 11:51 ↗

Re-Founding Incumbents for the AI Era with Sequence Holdings Co-Founder and CEO Michael L…

“…used to be rowing and now Yeah. from OpenAI. She said like the job used to be rowing…”

Lenny's Podcast · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 20:56 ↗

The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now

“…moment for a sec. Like the very beginning at the end of 2022, OpenAI was the only game in town. There was like…”

Latent Space · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 4:38 ↗

The $10 Trillion Token Economy — Alex Atallah, OpenRouter & Anjney Midha, AMP

“…to drop Opus 55. I was even prepared for OpenAI to drop another model. I got up early…”

How I AI · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 0:07 ↗

Opus 5.5 is great (but GPT-6 Sol is better)

Which shows say it

ShowLast four weeksAll weeks counted
TBPN1231
20VC with Harry Stebbings730
All-In Podcast328
Latent Space317
Dwarkesh Podcast35
Lenny's Podcast212
How I AI24
No Priors17
My First Million15
Odd Lots11
Practical AI11
The Tim Ferriss Show05
Cheeky Pint01
Founders Podcast01

More trends

Episodes in the newest four weeks:

How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “OpenAI” or “Open AI” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.

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