Snapshot · This Week in Tech (Audio)
Anthropic's share of AI business subscriptions rose to 41% in May, finally beating OpenAI which held 39.5%, reportedly boosted by the government ban making the product seem extremely powerful.
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Ed Zitron's independently verified documents, published by the Financial Times, show OpenAI lost $38.5 billion last year — but Owen Thomas provides essential context: much of the loss reflects non-cash restructuring from OpenAI's nonprofit-to-for-profit conversion, along with stock-based compensation. The company now has approximately one billion weekly active users and filed confidentially to go public. Meanwhile, Google suffers a massive talent blow: Noam Shazeer, co-author of the landmark 'Attention Is All You Need' transformer paper and architect of Google's Gemini models, is leaving for OpenAI — just two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to hire him via the Character AI acqui-hire. The panel speculates wildly about what OpenAI could possibly have offered him. Doc Rock wishes Anthropic would better explain its constitutional AI approach to a skeptical public.
Doc Rock does morning pages by hand every day, then walks while dictating to Claude, which synthesizes raw thoughts into tagged notes with priorities. For someone with ADHD, the combination of analog writing and AI synthesis has been transformative — a model for responsible AI adoption.
The US government banned Anthropic's Fable model, expecting to suppress it. Instead, Anthropic's share of paid AI business subscriptions surged to 41% in May, beating OpenAI's 39.5% for the first time. Forbidden fruit is the world's best marketing.
Bhanu and his team built approximately 50 free tools to attract search traffic, each linked back to SiteGPT.
With AI coding tools like Cursor, Bhanu can now create a new free marketing tool in less than 5 minutes by referencing existing tools.
Bhanu filters Ahrefs keyword results to show only those with a keyword difficulty below 10, making them realistic ranking targets for any decent website.
Bhanu sets a minimum search volume of 1,000 monthly searches when selecting keywords to target with free tools.
PropGPT averaged 20 downloads per day right after launching on the App Store through influencer marketing.
Eyal and Yali shut down all marketing and spent 4 months completely rebuilding PropGPT from scratch.
PropGPT has accumulated over 40,000 total downloads since launch.
PropGPT's large language model (AI) operating costs are just $20 per month, and the cost is continually falling.
Ad-based monetization works well for game apps where users spend extended time in-session, as seen with Grid and Wordle.
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