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Resolved true Jeff Bezos Factual 6 Oct 2025 In 2000, when the Internet bubble burst, Amazon stock fell in a short period from $113 a share to $6 a share. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 6 Oct 2025 Economics and markets
Resolved true Jeff Bezos Factual 3 Oct 2025 Jeff Bezos started Amazon when he was 30 years old. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 3 Oct 2025 Their own work or organisation
Resolved true Jeff Bezos Factual 3 Oct 2025 Jeff Bezos finished college. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 3 Oct 2025 Their own work or organisation
Resolved true Jensen Huang Factual 29 Sep 2025 NVIDIA announced Dynamo, a disaggregated AI workload orchestration software, and open sourced it. Jensen Huang · Factual · 29 Sep 2025 Their own work or organisation
Mostly false Jensen Huang Factual 29 Sep 2025 NVIDIA's investment in OpenAI is not tied to anything. Jensen Huang · Factual · 29 Sep 2025 Economics and markets
Mostly true Jensen Huang Factual 29 Sep 2025 Blackwell delivers 30 times the performance of Hopper. Jensen Huang · Factual · 29 Sep 2025 AI compute, hardware and data
Mostly false Nassim Taleb Factual 28 Sep 2025 The Levant was the most stable area in the world between the early 1800s and 1948, with only skirmishes in 1860. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 28 Sep 2025 Other
Mostly true Jensen Huang Factual 26 Sep 2025 Nvidia recently struck a partnership deal with Intel, a company that spent most of its life trying to put Nvidia out of business. Jensen Huang · Factual · 26 Sep 2025 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Jensen Huang Factual 26 Sep 2025 The number of chips Nvidia is building is growing, and Nvidia is growing faster as a company. Jensen Huang · Factual · 26 Sep 2025 Economics and markets
Mostly true Jensen Huang Factual 26 Sep 2025 The projects building out AI infrastructure with OCI, OpenAI and SoftBank are contracted and being worked on. Jensen Huang · Factual · 26 Sep 2025 Economics and markets
Mostly true Jensen Huang Factual 26 Sep 2025 OpenAI has 800 million active users. Jensen Huang · Factual · 26 Sep 2025 Economics and markets
Resolved true Jensen Huang Factual 26 Sep 2025 NVIDIA is OpenAI's AI infrastructure partner. Jensen Huang · Factual · 26 Sep 2025 Their own work or organisation
Resolved true Jensen Huang Factual 26 Sep 2025 Huang said Nvidia's partnership with Intel recognizes that general purpose computing needs to be fused with accelerated computing to create opportunities "for them". Jensen Huang · Factual · 26 Sep 2025 Economics and markets
Mostly true Jensen Huang Factual 26 Sep 2025 Until a couple of years ago, NVIDIA had 95% market share in China. Jensen Huang · Factual · 26 Sep 2025 Economics and markets
Mostly true Jensen Huang Factual 26 Sep 2025 AI models that think longer (inference-time reasoning) produce better quality answers. Jensen Huang · Factual · 26 Sep 2025 AI capabilities
Mostly true Jensen Huang Factual 26 Sep 2025 Delivering Blackwell's 30X performance gain required integration and optimization across six or seven chips. Jensen Huang · Factual · 26 Sep 2025 AI compute, hardware and data
Mostly true Jensen Huang Factual 26 Sep 2025 Huang said that "we" have no trouble beating "the numbers" on a regular basis, without saying whose numbers. Jensen Huang · Factual · 26 Sep 2025 Economics and markets
Mostly true Jensen Huang Factual 26 Sep 2025 The land, power and shell for such a data center already come to $15 billion. Jensen Huang · Factual · 26 Sep 2025 Economics and markets
Resolved true Jensen Huang Factual 26 Sep 2025 Nvidia's H20 chip is not as good as Nvidia's Blackwell chip. Jensen Huang · Factual · 26 Sep 2025 AI compute, hardware and data
Mostly true Jensen Huang Factual 26 Sep 2025 TikTok cannot operate without AI. Jensen Huang · Factual · 26 Sep 2025 Economics and markets
Mixed Nassim Taleb Factual 25 Sep 2025 Taleb's point was that bike lanes improve well-being and happiness without generating economic growth. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 25 Sep 2025 Economics and markets
Mostly true Steven Pinker Factual 24 Sep 2025 Harvard does not admit students on meritocratic grounds. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 Philosophy, ethics and society
Mostly true Steven Pinker Factual 24 Sep 2025 Some marine species, such as broadcast spawners, coordinate the release of gametes on the full moon or a fixed number of days after it. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 Science and research methods
Mostly true Steven Pinker Factual 24 Sep 2025 Human sacrifice, once practised by all ancient civilizations, no longer exists today. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 Philosophy, ethics and society
Mixed Steven Pinker Factual 24 Sep 2025 More countries are democratic than not, though fewer than 20 years ago. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 Philosophy, ethics and society
Mostly true Steven Pinker Factual 24 Sep 2025 Large language models have features, such as hidden layers, that implicitly build in some insights of linguistics. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 AI capabilities
Mostly true Steven Pinker Factual 24 Sep 2025 Slavery exists only clandestinely today; no country has legal slavery anymore. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 Philosophy, ethics and society
Mostly true Steven Pinker Factual 24 Sep 2025 Asked whether Taiwan is a sovereign state, Pinker said the official policy of the United States, and as far as he knows of pretty much every other country, is that Taiwan as a sovereign state does not exist. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 AI policy and governance
Mixed Nassim Taleb Factual 24 Sep 2025 Entities in biology and economics grow convexly then slow as they saturate; growth may be unbounded but remains sub-logarithmic. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 Science and research methods
Mixed Nassim Taleb Factual 24 Sep 2025 If ancient populations such as hunter-gatherers and Inuit had a high incidence of cardiovascular disease, the unavoidable conclusion is that cardiovascular problems are at least half genetic. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 Science and research methods
Mostly true Steven Pinker Factual 24 Sep 2025 There are not more slaves in the world today than in the past as a proportion of the world's population. Steven Pinker · Factual · 24 Sep 2025 Philosophy, ethics and society
Resolved true Nassim Taleb Factual 22 Sep 2025 Spitz has been bullish on markets for the past 3 years. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 22 Sep 2025 Economics and markets
Mostly true Nassim Taleb Factual 21 Sep 2025 The 3rd edition of Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails is available and adds 3 chapters and an appendix on Max Entropy distributions including Tsallis Entropy. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 21 Sep 2025 Their own work or organisation
Mixed Nassim Taleb Factual 19 Sep 2025 Scientists who come up with new ideas and frameworks are more often experienced researchers than young ones. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 19 Sep 2025 Science and research methods
Resolved true Sam Altman Factual 11 Sep 2025 Elon Musk helped start OpenAI. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 Their own work or organisation
Resolved true Sam Altman Factual 11 Sep 2025 AI-enabled impersonation scams are no longer a merely theoretical concern. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 Other global risks
Mixed Sam Altman Factual 11 Sep 2025 Current AI models now hallucinate only a little bit. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 AI capabilities
Mostly true Sam Altman Factual 11 Sep 2025 Elon Musk later decided OpenAI was not on a trajectory to succeed, told its founders it had a zero percent chance of success, and stopped participating. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 Their own work or organisation
Mixed Sam Altman Factual 11 Sep 2025 AI models such as ChatGPT do not do anything unless a user asks them to. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 AI capabilities
Resolved true Sam Altman Factual 11 Sep 2025 As of September 2025, US law gives no legal privilege protecting users' conversations with AI comparable to doctor or lawyer confidentiality. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 AI policy and governance
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual Sep 2025 A blade of grass is a solar-powered, fully self-replicating general factory. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 Biosecurity
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual Sep 2025 Conservation of mass provided a lot of indirect support for atomic theory. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 Science and research methods
Resolved true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual Sep 2025 No AI has yet been shown to redesign a tree and build a much smarter AI that builds a still smarter AI; that scenario has not occurred. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 AI capabilities
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual Sep 2025 Yudkowsky said that, as far as he knows, he was the person who originally made that argument. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual Sep 2025 The conservation of mass was one of the first hints that things are rearranged rather than created or destroyed. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 Science and research methods
Resolved true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual Sep 2025 Burning a substance inside a sealed glass vessel does not change the total weight. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 Science and research methods
Mostly true Sam Altman Factual 15 Aug 2025 GPT-5 is not close to human performance at figuring out what questions to ask or working on a task over a very long period. Sam Altman · Factual · 15 Aug 2025 AI capabilities
Mostly true Sam Altman Factual 14 Aug 2025 GPT-5 is an integrated model, so users do not need to choose between GPT-4o, o3 or o4 mini in the model switcher. Sam Altman · Factual · 14 Aug 2025 AI capabilities
Mostly true Sam Altman Factual 14 Aug 2025 India is OpenAI's second largest market in the world. Sam Altman · Factual · 14 Aug 2025 Economics and markets
Resolved true Sam Altman Factual 14 Aug 2025 When OpenAI started, it took four and a half years before it had its first product. Sam Altman · Factual · 14 Aug 2025 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Sam Altman Factual 9 Aug 2025 For some users with fragile mental states, ChatGPT's sycophantic behaviour encouraged delusions. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 AI safety and alignment
Mostly true Sam Altman Factual 9 Aug 2025 OpenAI builds AI compute infrastructure (chips, memory, networking, data centers, energy) in a bespoke one-off way, though this is improving. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 AI compute, hardware and data
Mostly true Sam Altman Factual 9 Aug 2025 OpenAI shapes ChatGPT's personality by showing the model examples of how it should respond in different cases, from which it learns its overall personality. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 AI safety and alignment
Mixed Sam Altman Factual 9 Aug 2025 GPT-5 is significantly better than earlier models at healthcare-related queries. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 AI capabilities
Resolved true Sam Altman Factual 9 Aug 2025 It is really hard to find a gigawatt of available power in the short term. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 AI compute, hardware and data
Mostly true Sam Altman Prediction 9 Aug 2025 After GPT-5 launches there will be another big spike in demand that OpenAI will not be able to serve. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 AI compute, hardware and data
Resolved true Sam Altman Factual 9 Aug 2025 Altman said that they had scaling laws indicating that the technology gets predictably better as compute, memory and data increase, and that they used those predictions to decide how to scale it up. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 AI capabilities
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Mostly true Balaji Srinivasan Factual 3 Aug 2025 Killer AI already exists in the form of drones, and every country is pursuing it. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 AI policy and governance
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Mixed Demis Hassabis Factual 3 Aug 2025 The success of the AI field in the last few years has attracted more attention, resources and talent. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 AI, the economy and work
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“And in particular India is now our second largest market in the world.”

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, in podcast interview 14 August 2025 Sam Altman: How to Win When AI Changes Everything (Transcript) (Singju Post)

India is OpenAI's second largest market in the world.

Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.

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What would count as true or false

Judged as of 2025-08-14. True: data available then (OpenAI statements in official announcements, or third-party data such as app downloads, user counts or traffic from Sensor Tower, Similarweb and the like) shows India ranked second only to the US among countries in ChatGPT/OpenAI users. Mostly true: India is second by users but not by revenue, and the claim plausibly refers to users, or it is narrowly second on one major metric and roughly tied on another. Mixed: India is second on some major metrics and lower on others. Mostly false: India is in the top few but clearly not second on the main metrics. False: India is far from second.

Evidence

  1. India may well become OpenAI’s largest market: CEO Sam Altman IANS (ianslive.in) · 8 August 2025
    “India is OpenAI’s second-largest market in the world after the US, and it may well become its biggest market in the near future, according to its CEO Sam Altman.”
  2. Sam Altman to Visit India Next Month, Announces OpenAI’s First New Delhi Office Observer · 25 August 2025
    “India has become OpenAI’s second largest market for ChatGPT, trailing only the U.S., according to Altman.”
  3. ChatGPT Statistics And User Trends 2026 aboutchromebooks.com · 27 June 2025
    “The United States accounts for 19% of ChatGPT’s user base, followed by India at 7.86%. Brazil, Canada, and the United Kingdom round out the top five.”
  4. How people are using ChatGPT OpenAI · 15 September 2025 Own record
    “ChatGPT has also become a broadly accessible global tool, with especially rapid growth in low- and middle-income countries.”

Reasoning

E3, a third-party statistics page published 2025-06-27, ranks India second among ChatGPT user bases at 7.86%, behind the United States at 19% [E3]. That matches the claim on users; no evidence covers revenue or other metrics. E1 and E2 are news reports that only repeat Altman's own statement, so they do not confirm it independently. Because the only independent data supporting the claim comes from one secondary source, published 2025-06-27, and no evidence covers other metrics, the verdict is mostly true rather than true.

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Sam Altman, “India is OpenAI's second largest market in the world.” (said 14 August 2025). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_d9a3125acb3d, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_d9a3125acb3d

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