The Only AI Tools You Need (12-Minute Guide)
About this video
Su argues he uses about ten AI tools for most of his work, each with one superpower, and this first part covers everyday and specialist AI. Among general chatbots, ChatGPT’s superpower is obedience: it follows long, complex instruction checklists completely, where Gemini may quietly drop requirements or skip a requested web search. Gemini’s is multimodality at scale: it natively ingests video, audio, images and text with a million-token context, so a meeting recording, slide deck and whiteboard photo can be summarised together and turned into decisions and a follow-up email, and a screen recording can become a formatted SOP. Claude’s is first-draft quality, in coding that works on the first try — illustrated by a script it wrote for a bulk export he could not do himself — and in polishing copy by matching examples of your voice. His workflow chains them: ChatGPT or Gemini for ideation, research and outlining, Claude for the final pass; Grok is noted only for real-time X analysis. For specialists, he clarifies that Perplexity fine-tunes others’ models for fast, accurate fetching rather than reasoning, and NotebookLM answers only from your sources, which he uses to fact-check drafts and scripts against their research. Gamma, ElevenLabs, Zapier, n8n, Excalidraw and Napkin AI get brief mentions.
Key takeaways
- ChatGPT’s superpower is obedience: it completes complex instruction checklists
- Gemini’s is multimodality: video, audio, images and text in one large context
- Claude’s is first-draft quality, for working code and voice-matched copy
- Chain tools: ideate and research in ChatGPT or Gemini, finish in Claude
- Perplexity fetches facts fast; NotebookLM answers only from your sources
Episode details: published January 20, 2026 · 11:56 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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