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No Ads in Sight
Two companies. Same week. Opposite bets.
EP017: No Ads in Sight
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Show Notes
SHOW NOTES
OpenAI started showing ads in ChatGPT on Sunday. Two days later, Anthropic expanded Claude’s free tier with features that used to require a paid plan — and signed off with three words: “No ads in sight.” This is the week two AI companies made opposite bets on what a free user is worth.
In This Episode
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How ChatGPT’s new ads actually work — conversation-based targeting, $60 CPMs, and the privacy architecture underneath
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Anthropic’s choreographed counter-punch: the ad-free pledge, the Super Bowl mockery, and yesterday’s free tier expansion
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Sam Altman’s “rich people” dig and what each company’s accusations reveal about the accuser
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What Claude’s free users actually got — and what they didn’t
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