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- Reid Hoffman says he pays for max subscriptions across all AI tools.The LinkedIn cofounder says he often takes an initial prompt and then feeds it to multiple agents.Hoffman's AI hack illustrates the wide range of the AI market.
Reid Hoffman's personal AI hack is quite simple: Use everything.
"I simply do the max subscription across all of them and frequently when I'm doing something I've actually already put on running — and now it's the Open AI open-source model on my laptop to front end to parsing it out to multiple agents," Hoffman said during a recent episode of "Moonshots with Peter Diamandis."
Datasage cofounder Dave Blundin, who joins Diamandis on the podcast, asked Hoffman if, as a Microsoft board member, he receives any special perks like dedicated GPUs. Hoffman was on OpenAI's board until 2023, when he stepped down to avoid conflicts with other AI investments.
Hoffman said he doesn't, but instead relies on his max subscription approach to meet his AI needs.
"Run it on ChatGPT, run it on Copilot, run it on Gemini, run it on Claude, and then integrating what comes back on anything that is kind of more substantive," he said.
It still isn't everything, Hoffman said.
"I've got the personal hack, but not the personal cloud."
Hoffman has previously said he uses AI deep research once a day. He's also using AI to make sure he's asking the right question.
"My first prompt is, 'Give me the deep research prompt that will solve these or target these kinds of things.' And then, so I write in a paragraph or speak in a paragraph, then it comes back with a page and a half, then I edit it, and then I submit it. And that's the prompt that I'm beginning to drive and work off of."
Hoffman, a venture capitalist who cofounded LinkedIn, is outspoken on some of his AI views. He just published a book with journalist Greg Beato titled "Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future." Hoffman has even gone so far as to use AI to help create a "deepfake twin" to explore deepfake tech.
Replicating Hoffman's AI hack doesn't come cheap.
The top-tier, pro-level subscriptions to the leading AI assistants cost at least $100 a month. ChatGPT Pro is $200. Google's Gemini, without promotional pricing, is $249.99 a month. All told, Hoffman could be spending at least $650 monthly, not including the cost for Microsoft's Copilot, which is $99 a year, plus the cost of an Office 365 license.
Then again, Forbes estimates Hoffman is worth $2.5 billion.
