Claude

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7 statements across 5 episodes · 0 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 21, 2025 by Benedict Evans · said 39 times in 10 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Everything said about Claude, oldest first

Aug 21, 2025 negative
Opinion
Evans: ChatGPT and Claude are thin wrappers over models
“The only actual real thin GPT wrappers are the apps from these companies like chat GPT is a thin GPT wrapper. Claude is a thin GPT wrapper. Like Claude, the website, Claude, the app, is a thin GPT wrapper. It's an input box and an output box, and a little spri…”
Benedict Evans Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 13:40 A double episode: AI differentiation, and Apple does F1
Aug 21, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Evans: Mainstream users have never heard of Claude despite Silicon Valley hype
“This disconnect between how everyone in the Valley is obsessed with like Claude is three percent better than ChatGPT this week and next week Gemini is overtaking Claude. But then you look at the user numbers. I know users have never heard of Gemini or Claude. …”
Benedict Evans Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 23:28 A double episode: AI differentiation, and Apple does F1
Dec 20, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Evans: Meta AI consumer usage rivals Gemini; Claude has zero adoption
“For consumers, Meta AI has got not actually very dissimilar usage to Gemini, and Claude is nowhere.”
Benedict Evans Dec 20, 2025 ▶ 16:40 How does OpenAI compete?
Feb 23, 2026 negative
Opinion
Evans: Replacing enterprise software like SAP with Claude is foolish
“Everyone who works in enterprise software and knows anything about it, kind of put their head in their hands and said, oh my God, do I actually have to explain why this is dumb? Is, you know, you'll use Claude instead of SAP. Fine. If you need me to explain th…”
Benedict Evans Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 0:19 AI and SaaS
Feb 28, 2026 bearish
Assertion Partly supported
Evans: Survey data shows Claude holds between 0% and 1% consumer usage
“If you look at the, you know, survey data on usage, it's, It's ChatGPT, and then it's sort of two-thirds of that to a half of that is Gemini and Meta AI. Even though Meta AI is a fiasco, Llama IV was a fiasco, the new models haven't launched yet, but consume…”
Benedict Evans Feb 28, 2026 ▶ 17:42 The end of the network effect
Aug 16, 2026 negative
Opinion
Evans: Incumbent industrial firms will not be displaced by AI-accounting startups
“Saint-Gobain is a big French gloss company. They're going to be destroyed by a new glass company that's using Claw to do its accounting. You know, it's a reductive absurd, but of course we'll do this absurd.”
Benedict Evans Aug 16, 2026 ▶ 8:45 AI deployment
Aug 16, 2026 negative
Opinion
Evans: Giving enterprise employees Copilot or ChatGPT has not worked well
“Step one was give everybody co-pilot, and that didn't work too well, because it's kind of, or Claude or ChatGPT, because it's kind of like being in 1997 and giving everybody a web browser. Okay, this is the future, but it's not, that's not, what was the produc…”
Benedict Evans Aug 16, 2026 ▶ 2:02 AI deployment
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