The Grimoire · Who's Who in the AI Group Chat
The Power Map
The Potions Shelf explains the words. This is the cast list — who made what, what you might use it for, and how to recognize the name when it wanders into a meeting wearing confidence.
The company behind ChatGPT. If someone says "the ChatGPT people," they usually mean OpenAI.
Tool ChatGPTThe general-purpose AI assistant most people try first. Good for drafting, brainstorming, summarizing, and getting unstuck.
Company AnthropicThe company behind Claude. Often discussed for safety, enterprise use, and models that are very good with long documents.
Tool ClaudeA strong writing, analysis, and document-heavy assistant. Think thoughtful editor with a giant reading pile.
Company Google AIThe company behind Gemini, plus a very large amount of the internet's plumbing, advertising, search, cloud, and AI infrastructure.
Tool GeminiGoogle's AI assistant family. Useful to know because it is showing up across Google products people already use.
Concept Model vs. AppThe app is the handbag. The model is what is inside doing the work. Cute bag, important contents.