{"title":"AI Techbros — Who Said That?","description":"An advanced quiz pitting your knowledge of AI industry leaders against their most famous, weirdest, and most controversial quotes. Identify which techbro from OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, xAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, and Google DeepMind said each line.","settings":{"shuffle_questions":true,"shuffle_options":true,"reveal_answers":true,"allow_review":true,"time_limit_seconds":600,"pass_percent":60},"questions":[{"kind":"single_choice","prompt":"\"Fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, forget that the code even exists.\" Who coined the term 'vibe coding' with this quote in February 2025?","explanation":"Andrej Karpathy — former Tesla AI director, co-founder of OpenAI, and later at Anthropic — coined 'vibe coding' in February 2025. It became Collins Dictionary's Word of the Year 2025.","points":1,"options":[{"label":"Andrej Karpathy"},{"label":"Sam Altman"},{"label":"Elon Musk"},{"label":"Dario Amodei"}]},{"kind":"single_choice","prompt":"\"I think AI will probably, most likely, sort of lead to the end of the world.\" Who said this in 2015 — though the second half (\"but in the meantime, there will be great companies\") is almost always cropped out?","explanation":"Sam Altman made this remark in 2015 while running Y Combinator, long before ChatGPT existed. The quote is routinely shared without its more optimistic second half.","points":1,"options":[{"label":"Sam Altman"},{"label":"Elon Musk"},{"label":"Dario Amodei"},{"label":"Arthur Mensch"}]},{"kind":"single_choice","prompt":"\"The whole AGI rhetoric is about creating God. I don't believe in God. I'm a strong atheist. So I don't believe in AGI.\" Which European AI founder made this blunt statement?","explanation":"Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI (France), has been openly dismissive of AGI hype. He calls AGI an impractical abstraction and prefers focusing on efficient, deployable AI models — a stance that sets him apart from his American counterparts.","points":1,"options":[{"label":"Arthur Mensch"},{"label":"Demis Hassabis"},{"label":"Liang Wenfeng"},{"label":"Sam Altman"}]},{"kind":"single_choice","prompt":"\"I just mogged you yesterday, check this out.\" Which CEO said this to Sam Altman on X after Altman announced a ChatGPT update?","explanation":"Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, tweeted 'Lol, I just mogged you yesterday' at Sam Altman in February 2025 after Perplexity launched Deep Research. Altman replied, 'Since you nicely apologized to me in person for all the mean tweets last week, I'm going to let this go.'","points":1,"options":[{"label":"Aravind Srinivas"},{"label":"Elon Musk"},{"label":"Andrej Karpathy"},{"label":"Dario Amodei"}]},{"kind":"single_choice","prompt":"\"A country of geniuses in a datacenter.\" Which Anthropic CEO used this memorable phrase to describe powerful AI?","explanation":"Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, coined this phrase in his essay 'Machines of Loving Grace' to describe a future where millions of AI instances — each smarter than a Nobel Prize winner — work together autonomously.","points":1,"options":[{"label":"Dario Amodei"},{"label":"Sam Altman"},{"label":"Demis Hassabis"},{"label":"Andrej Karpathy"}]},{"kind":"single_choice","prompt":"\"OpenAI is built on a lie.\" And: \"OpenAI = ClosedAI. Claude = Evil.\" Which tech billionaire went on a naming tirade mocking AI companies?","explanation":"Elon Musk posted that most AI companies operate as 'the opposite of their names,' calling OpenAI 'ClosedAI' and Anthropic's Claude 'evil' in October 2025. Perplexity's Aravind Srinivas replied that Perplexity would 'get simpler.'","points":1,"options":[{"label":"Elon Musk"},{"label":"Sam Altman"},{"label":"Andrej Karpathy"},{"label":"Liang Wenfeng"}]},{"kind":"single_choice","prompt":"\"We don't have an organization; we're driven by a vision. That vision isn't even written down.\" Which reclusive Chinese AI founder said this?","explanation":"Liang Wenfeng, founder of DeepSeek, described his company's radically flat, vision-driven structure. 'No KPIs, no organization, just a vision.' He also famously said they're 'just a bunch of very ordinary people.'","points":1,"options":[{"label":"Liang Wenfeng"},{"label":"Arthur Mensch"},{"label":"Zhilin Yang"},{"label":"Demis Hassabis"}]},{"kind":"single_choice","prompt":"\"Restraint is a strategy. Those who take more get beaten by those who take less.\" Which AI founder believes competition is won by wanting less profit, not more?","explanation":"Liang Wenfeng of DeepSeek has a unique business philosophy: aggressive profit-seeking is self-defeating. He argues companies that try to take 5% of global GDP will be beaten by those willing to take only 1%. DeepSeek prices its API to recover hardware costs in 10 months.","points":1,"options":[{"label":"Liang Wenfeng"},{"label":"Sam Altman"},{"label":"Dario Amodei"},{"label":"Arthur Mensch"}]},{"kind":"single_choice","prompt":"\"Like a marriage of Wikipedia and ChatGPT.\" Which CEO used this one-liner to describe their product?","explanation":"Aravind Srinivas pitched Perplexity as 'a marriage of Wikipedia and ChatGPT' — two products everyone knows — to explain how it combines conversational AI with cited sources. He used the line during early plagiarism criticism in 2024.","points":1,"options":[{"label":"Aravind Srinivas"},{"label":"Sam Altman"},{"label":"Andrej Karpathy"},{"label":"Demis Hassabis"}]},{"kind":"single_choice","prompt":"\"Even our strongest model will be open source, because I don't see what's good about closed source.\" Which AI founder shocked Silicon Valley with this commitment to openness?","explanation":"Liang Wenfeng of DeepSeek insisted on open-sourcing even their best models, contradicting the industry trend toward closed, proprietary systems. This philosophy helped DeepSeek R1 match OpenAI's performance at 1/30th the cost, stunning global markets in early 2025.","points":1,"options":[{"label":"Liang Wenfeng"},{"label":"Arthur Mensch"},{"label":"Sam Altman"},{"label":"Elon Musk"}]}]}