Mollick names Claude (especially Sonnet and Opus) as one of his most-used assistants in nearly every essay comparing frontier models on One Useful Thing.
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Ethan Mollick's AI stack.
Associate Professor; AI researcher at Wharton (UPenn).
Tools Ethan Mollick has publicly discussed or demonstrated using. Curated by Magpie's editorial team from podcasts, posts, and public stacks.
Ethan Mollick is Associate Professor at the Wharton School and Co-Director of the Wharton Generative AI Labs. He writes One Useful Thing, a Substack with hundreds of thousands of readers, where he names the AI tools he uses, why, and what they're good for.
Tools Ethan has publicly discussed.
- Claude4.7DirectLLM chatbot
- ChatGPT4.9DirectLLM chatbot
Long-running test subject and frequent example in Mollick's essays. He compares ChatGPT's behaviour across versions and use cases for educators and operators.
- Gemini4.4DirectLLM chatbot
Uses Google's Gemini, especially for long-context tasks like reviewing entire documents at once. Frequently benchmarks it against Claude and ChatGPT in his essays.
- NotebookLM2.9DirectKnowledge
Has written multiple essays praising NotebookLM's grounded-on-source workflow for research and teaching prep, including its audio-overview feature.
- Midjourney2.9DirectImage generation
Uses Midjourney for image generation in essays and demonstrations. Has documented prompt-engineering experiments and the model's evolution across versions.
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