I'm using Claude more than ChatGPT. Are you?

I wrote most of this in my newsletter last week, but I wanted to provide an update at the top of the article. I've spent the week with Claude by my side and ChatGPT riding in the sidecar. That wasn't on last week's bingo card.

What's with this Claude?

Anthropic's latest release, Claude Sonnet, is a step and leap ahead simultaneously. It's a step because when you look at the model on the LLM Super Ranking boards, it's running near the top with ChatGPT-40, but so are others. And more models are released all the time.

It's a leap for me because I find that the new Artifacts features and coding capabilities it's introduced have transformed my work. How many WordPress Plugins had I worked on personally before this week? ZERO.

How many have I worked on typing this Friday afternoon? At least three PlugIns developed and being tested, with about fifteen versions between them all so far.

Two Plugins that I'm good with where they're at. And one I'm still working on. All three of them will give me interactive capabilities for the Workshop I'm doing on AI for Startups in August. A pre-survey, an interactive form for participants to fill out during the session, and some supporting materials for when I'm talking about prompting and iterating.

I literally couldn't have done these pieces of my work without Claude. I have had to take some things to ChatGPT, like making the Zip file needed to make it all work. If it's transformed my work week this much in a single week, I have to imagine there are others of you that are experiencing or seeing something similar. If so, leave me a note in the comments and let me know how you're using it.

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Claude adds Artifacts for Collaboration & Teams

Anthropic continues to push the pace of change ahead. Last week, they released their latest version of their flagship model, Claude Sonnet . Sonnet is testing on par with Chat-GPT40, but that’s not why it’s highlighted in this week’s newsletter.

If you want to build custom knowledge sets using Chat-GPT, you build and train your own GPT. It’s not terribly difficult, but it is a separate function and your GPT’s live in unique spots that you can interact with one at a time. If you’re interacting with a GPT regularly, you’d see it near the top of your sidebar history.

I’m in a shared team account for ChatGPT. In order to share chats or GPT’s we build, we send links back and forth. Contributing to a GPT and it’s knowledge is cumbersome. And you need to have some technical background to use it.

Anthropic went the easy to use Google Docs model. By integrating shared documents “Artifacts” directly in the chat, Team users of Claude can collaborate as they brainstorm ideas and sections for a new website, a shared scripting spot for customer service groups, or marketing to collaborate on building an email drip.

Today these features cost $30 per team member per month and get you access to the leading models and updates from Antrhopic. That’s a little more than the $20 per month for ChatGPT, but the functionality jump alone could be worth it for some orgs.

As these tools become more widespread and utilized, being able to easily share, improve knowledge and collaborate amongst SME’s will be critical to maximize these technologies.

If you’ve used ChatGPT, what limitations like what I’ve describe above have you run into?

If you’ve used Claude, you can go into your settings and turn on Artifacts in the Feature Preview menu.

I'd love to hear what you think.