Claude Can Do So Much More For You Now...

We just got a wave of new releases from, well, all the big players. ChatGPT, Claude, and GrokBot went down in price. And all of them have some version of a browser or a computer in the cloud. So in this video, I want to take time to break down what that exactly means. What's the difference between these different providers? Which one should you be using? And a bunch of use cases that you could be running on these cloud computers. That and more in this week's News You Can Use. That's what we used to call this show where I rounded up everything that came out every week in AI. But now I just look at the most significant stories. And I think this is an exceptionally interesting and useful one, cloud browsers. So first of all, what does cloud even mean? You might have heard it, but it's basically compute that you rent from another provider. If that's not helpful, think of it as a MacBook that sits in some warehouse that you too can now access. For anybody who's technical, there's ways to do this, right? You can rent a VPS, a virtual private server. And for, you know, a few dollars a year, you can basically have a permanently running computer. But all of this is technical, there's setup involved, there's maintenance. They basically took that idea of having this, you know, MacBook in some warehouse that runs 24/7. And they added it to the ChatGPT subscription, to the GrokBot subscription, there's a version of it in the Claude Cowork version. And all of that happened at the same time, they're kind of reacting to each other. So what's new here? What came out this week? Well, first of all, if you check out this tweet, ChatGPT Work released a cloud browser. Okay, so this is basically like a laptop in a warehouse running Google Chrome, where you can let it do things while you're on your phone and you're out there plucking strawberries or whatever you're doing in your free time. Nobody actually does that. Anyway, maybe I wish I did that. Back on topic. So as you're plucking your strawberries, you can give it tasks and it's gonna work remotely. Okay, this sounds a little confusing because you might be like, Igor, wasn't this possible before. I asked for things in chat and then went out into the internet and found things. There's a few versions of this. And it is a little confusing. So the first thing that we got, like already 3 years ago was web search where it basically Googles things and brings that info back. Okay, the basic thing. Then like a year or 2 ago, we got the next level, which was a Chrome extension where it could remote control your browser, your computer. So if you have your own MacBook, then you could install an extension in your Chrome where you allowed the ChatGPT or the Claude application to remote control your browser and basically do what you would do. So if you're logged in into an app, it could kind of move around the mouse and do things there. Then we realized, okay, that's really clunky. And these sites are built for humans, and it doesn't work so well. So we started developing the MCP standard, which stands for Model Context Protocol, which doesn't mean much for many people. And it's basically just a way to connect into different services and applications without using the website. And that's what we were doing over the past few years. But it still remains the fact that most websites out there, they don't have an MCP. Like most services you have, your banking applications are not going to provide an MCP. So you still have to use a browser to get that valuable information and the data from there to then do other things with it with AI. So that's where the next step up from a remote-controlled browser on your computer comes in. And that's basically this week's Cloud Cowork update, where now Cloud Cowork has a built-in browser. I'll be showing you some examples and use cases of that later in this video. But it's like Google Chrome built into Cloud Cowork. Now, you still have to run your computer and the Cloud Desktop application to use that. So it's not really in the cloud. But then the ChatGPT feature that released this week is the next step up from that, because there legitimately, you could be plucking your strawberries and using the browser that, you know, is in a computer elsewhere. We really tried testing it, VPNs, multiple people tried it in our team. They said it's rolling out, we really couldn't get it to work. But then there's a further step up from that, which is not just a cloud browser, but a full cloud computer, like desktop, file system, browser, other applications, everything. And that's what GrokBot has. Okay, that's why I was so enthusiastic when it came out. That is a full computer available to it. Matter of fact, I took everything that I just said here, including the 2 releases this week between the ChatGPT cloud browser and the cloud Cowerk desktop browser, and I created a little visualization for you. I hope that puts things into perspective. I use a little skill called Eli Five. I'm going to tell you more about this next week in a video that is about my top five favorite skills that I currently use. Anyway, subscribe for that. That's coming up next week. All of them are free. Amazing. This one is called Eli Five. You can Google it if you want. Basically creates simple visualizations. And here you can see the progression. So Claude in Chrome is the first evolution, and then Grokbot is kind of the highest version of this, where it's a computer and you can do things. Oh, one more note on accessibility. This thing is all over the place. We had multiple team members test these different features. And it's not just geographically limited or only available to paid plans. It's just inexplicably not available to some users. And the rollout should have happened by now. So if you don't see this, just be a little patient. Check out your settings in Cloud Desktop app, you would go to Settings, Cowork, and then switch your preferred browser mode from Claude in Chrome to this new option. In ChatGPT, it's on by default. And in GrokBot, it's also on by default. It's the way these GrokBots operate. But here today, we're mainly going to talk about this built-in browser that is inside of Cowork. But honestly, these use cases, they apply to that whole ladder of cloud browser use computing that I talked about in the intro to this video. Alright, let's look at some stuff you could be doing here, shall we? This is always fun. So starting with probably my favorite test, you could use it to audit your other subscriptions. So basically, if you take a prompt like this right here, and you put it in, then it can go out in its own browser. And as you give it access to these different subscriptions, it can basically look at all of your usage and spend and audit if it's worth it to use this subscription for you. So for example, this is what it looks like in ChatGPT. Here it is auditing ElevenLabs. Here it's auditing my Midjourney account. And the interesting thing is, because this is now built in, you could also schedule this to run regularly, maybe once a week, you could monitor your usage. Now, this prompt that I shared with you is focused on monitoring the spend. But you could also monitor all the chats that you have and create sort of a report on what you've been doing inside of ChatGPT. Now, here's another one, you could take any analytics sites that you have. And honestly, AI is amazing at data analytics, you probably know that. But getting the data is a different story. It usually takes multiple steps, you have to kind of go to these websites, download CSV files, bring it into chat, come up with the right prompts. Well, what if it just did all of that in one process because it has a browser and it doesn't need to use yours and there's no like security issues with it? Look, this is it going into my YouTube Studio looking at analytics for some previous videos. And voilà, once we were through with this, it created an artifact from the data. I had to do nothing. It literally kind of just navigated through. And now it also has the login to the YouTube Studio. So whatever I want to do in there regularly, maybe I want some peculiar report. Report or a new finding presented to me once a day, well, I won't have to go through the whole process of bringing that in or deal with stuff like Google Cloud and setting up the API and making sure everything is connected and authenticated. Heck, I don't even know if that works with some of these deeper YouTube analytics. Because I always look at them from my browser, right? And now AI can really easily do that too. And you can automate some of these reporting workflows where, you know, you just didn't have the energy to do it yourself. You could do this and maybe set that on a scheduled task. So once a week, you get a report on some of those numbers that are hidden in there behind a few clicks. And if you're not sure what to look into, ask AI, just literally ask it, hey, what kind of reports could you create from this data ranked by usefulness to me? And if you have enough context on yourself and your work in there, it should do a great job at ranking those and showing you exactly what to do. Okay, here's another fun opportunity. If you're a member of different communities or forums, you can now navigate those and consume the, you know, infinite amount of information that is available across the internet. And some of the best information is usually in these communities, whether it's gated communities or forums with real-world discussions or Reddit boards, the info is out there. So for example, here, I would let it go to the AI Advantage community, which, you know, over 60,000 people in there learning about AI. There's multiple courses available by me if you want to check it out, go ahead, link is in the description. $1 trial, well worth it. Anyway, I could go in there or have Claude go in there if I'm a member and see what other people are doing. And for example, if you have good context, you could say, hey, this is what I'm doing with my business. I wonder if there's resources or other people in this community that work on the same thing or that are working on projects or having wins that I could copy into my own life. And it could just happen automatically on a schedule again. Kind of amazing. Okay, I have 2 more for you. And this kind of gets into some of the limitations here. So we tried this with different apps. Usually some social media platforms block you from, you know, going in there. But this actually worked. We went on X, and it looked through the whole list of accounts and created a report for me. Now, usually you would need to use some external scraping service to access this information. But yeah, through the browser, you can kind of just do it and get around some of those limitations. And you don't have to pay for an extra subscription for some scraper. It kind of just works. Not much else to note here. Okay, one more prompt and example. And I think this is a really good one. It's when you have a product that you want to check out alternatives to, or maybe best sizes. In this case, we did a test with a shoe. Look, it's an image of a shoe. And then with this prompt, it goes out there, it researches alternatives. It took about 20 minutes. But with the browser, it found way more because it's not just a Google search where it pulls up some links and then serves you up the info. It actually goes into the sites and clicks around and finds things, right? And those are just some examples of the things you can do. I thought it was interesting to see OpenAI's ChatGPT account, which if you're not following this on Twitter, by the way, this is where all these releases come out now, not on the official OpenAI account anymore, by the way. And their release tweet was, well, announcing this new feature, the cloud browser, with a list of use cases. So if you want more things to try, there you go. But I think the big lesson here is just that more and more of these workflows is automatable. You know, a year ago, you had to manually export a lot of the data and bring it to chat and do things. Now these agents are going out there and getting their context themselves. Alright, a few more notes about this week. We got one more update from Claude where they unified memories across Claude Cowork and normal Claude, the chat interface. What a no-brainer feature. It was so confusing before. Also, I noticed an interface change. If you go to claude.ai, they didn't announce this, but you can see that projects now are an extra button and also this auto-execution. Execution mode, there's an extra button. All of it was clumped into here. And me, as somebody who uses projects all the time, this was such a mess. Honestly, there was cowork projects and memories that only live in certain projects and all of that. Now they just unified it. You have account-level memories, which is context that is tied to your account. And also they changed the way these look. Now you have these different categories, and you could go through and, I don't know, look at your hobbies, for example, kitesurfing, scuba diving, paddle, Used North Orbit Kites, trip to Tarifa for kitesurfing, Python programming. Yeah, my Claude knows me. But honestly, these memories just scratch the surface. Some of the deepest knowledge is inside of Markdown files that I manually upload into projects or give to my agents. Oh, and by the way, Open Claude is still my main daily driver on the company side. But I also use Claude and ChatGPT all the time just inside of projects. If you're curious how to set a project like that up yourself, that too is a course inside of the AI Advantage Club. Join for a dollar. And then check out the Build Your AI Clone Navigator course. And that's it. That's this week's update that I thought was really relevant. It's gonna be interesting to see how we can chain these browsers together with other steps and other capabilities in the future. But right now, I recommend you go check out some of these use cases, get a feeling for the difference between Claude remote controlling your computer or having a cloud computer with ChatGPT. And that's it. My name is Igor, and I hope you have a wonderful day. AI news you can use. Breaking down the stories you actually care about. AI news you can use. Igor's here to help you figure it out.