AI Models Decoded for Business Owners

GPT. Claude. Gemini. Llama. Mistral. You've probably used one of them. But if someone asked you to explain what an AI model actually is and why there are so many, most service-based business owners would struggle.

That's not a knowledge gap, it's a communication failure by the companies building these tools. This episode fixes that.

In this episode:

• What an AI model actually is, the simplest possible explanation
• Why different companies built different models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta)
• The law school analogy: same profession, different lenses, different strengths
• Model tiers explained: Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, when to use which
• The practical rule: use the smallest model that gets the job done
• What context windows are and why they matter for real business work
• Why Claude projects solve the context window problem for ongoing work
• The cost difference between tiers and how it adds up when you're running automations
• Why the best model is the one you open today
• Makeda's honest take: pick one and go deep

Who this is for: Service-based business owners who are confused by the number of AI tools on the market and want a clear, jargon-free framework for making confident decisions about which to use and why.

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