Impact of OpenAI's Retreat on ChatGPT

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OpenAI's first influencer likes you retreat has drawn a whole bunch of backlash online. Alibaba has just released Quen 3.8 Max. This is a 2.4 trillion parameter model that they say is rivaling Claude. Visa has just acquired a behavioral biometrics company called BioCatch for 2.4 billion dollars. I'm gonna talk about why this is wild in the age of AI and how this is gonna be used. Reddit CEO right now is throwing a little bit of shade into Google AI overviews and the shares of Reddit are falling 20% even though it seems like the company is making more money than ever. Apple's Tim Cook is floating iCloud Plus, a paywall for the heaviest Siri AI users. And Anthropic says that Claude's model breached three companies during cybersecurity tests. Kind of like what OpenAI was saying when they had their model go and breach hugging faces. Anthropic is coming along and saying, look, we are, you know, they're not the only ones. Me too, we also have a dangerous model that can escape a sandbox and hack the world. Let's get into it today. The first thing I wanted to mention is that the AI Box MCP, that's my very own startup. It gives, it's a little plugin that gives Claude and other AI models access to all the top models. So you get OpenAI, you get Grok, you get 11 Labs, you get Google VO3 and Gemini. You get all of that inside of Grok or inside of Claude or inside of ChatGPT and vice versa. The cool thing about the MCP with AI Box is that Claude can now generate images, audio and video. This is by far our most popular feature. We have hit all sorts of revenue metrics and milestones and records because of it. And if you haven't tried it out already, I would love for you to try it. I personally use it every day. It is incredible basically. And it's like, I know it's my product. So I'm just like pitching here, but I'll just tell you one thing that I recently used it for that was amazing and I'll get on with it. But I was recently going and making Facebook ads for AI Box and one of the problems is that Claw doesn't generate images, right? So I had a framework of a Facebook ad that I wanted. I screen shot it off of somebody else. And I said, look, build a frame of this Facebook ad. And it kind of had like titles and some descriptions and some like content. And so it built a rough draft for it, but the actual image on that Facebook ad, I needed to put something in. And I wanted to A-B test a whole bunch of different ones. So I said, use the AI Box MCP and spin up 20 different variations, 20 different images we could swap into this ad. It was able to do that. I ran the ad set and it turns out that one of those 20 for some reason just had a way higher conversion rate on the ad. And actually 50% of our ad spend went on to that one single ad. So I mean, when it comes to any sort of projects where you have to test a whole bunch of variations, it's really cool to be able to get all of those variations made instantly when I got AI Box to, when Claude used AI Box to generate all of the images. It wasn't something that, you know, it was sitting there and doing them one at a time. Like if I was on ChatGPT trying to generate those images myself, I would have been, you know, going slowly. It's super slow. You do them a handful at a time or one at a time. It's able to just do them all in parallel. Zap, get it all done. It's all in there. It's ready to rock and roll. It was an amazing experience. So if you want to check it out, it is aibox.ai. There's a link in the description to check out our MCP. And yeah, I think you will genuinely love it. You can get it for $8.99 a month starting and you get over 80 different AI models. So audio, image, video, it's all in there. OpenAI's first influencer luxury retreat is making a bunch of people online upset. OpenAI basically flew in a bunch of creators. There was this kind of a luxury upstate New York resort and it was their first influencer event. They called it Summer Club. And they had a bunch of like, you know, fancy events and like the activities. They had beekeeping. They had a bunch of dinners. They had a ChatGPT work tutorials, which I mean, I think that's, that's a no brainer. Obviously they'd be doing like software tutorials. That's what I'd expect. But the trip had a bunch of backlash online because all of the commenters said that there was $5,000 a night suites. And it was supposed to be kind of like this wellness retreat, but OpenAI is obviously pushing a $500 billion data center deal right now. And so not everyone was, a lot of people that are anti-counter data centers didn't like this. And it feels like they're like, look, they're just bribing all the influencers to go along with what they got going on. OpenAI actually hired Charles Porsche, which was formerly Instagram's VP of partnerships. And this was just in February of this year that they did that. And their goal with him, they're like, look, like we want you to lead the creator strategy. So Summer Club is kind of his first big campaign that he's done since he took that role. The funny thing to me is that Anthropic and Microsoft have both run similar kind of creator trips. And this isn't anything new. It's not like Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI are inventing this. There's a lot of companies that do these types of things. And when Anthropic and Microsoft did it, like they had like a Superbowl event in February, but with them, there was no backlash. So a lot of people are saying, perhaps the reason that there's a lot of backlash is just because of OpenAI's kind of scale.