AI tools that will actually make you rich (TIER LIST)
The speaker ranks various AI tools in a tier list format based on personal experience using them for business purposes. Claude and Claude Code earn S-tier rankings, while ChatGPT is criticized for declining quality. The video covers LLMs, image generation, video generation, and productivity tools.
Summary
The speaker presents a tier list of AI tools framed around which ones can generate wealth or business value. Starting with Claude, the speaker places it in S-tier, praising it heavily for creative writing and copywriting use in running ads, calling it their favorite daily-use AI tool that has 'developed substantially.'
ChatGPT is placed in B-tier, with the speaker arguing it has been 'going downhill' in response quality and technological sophistication. The only saving grace mentioned is the Codex 5.3 model update, which narrowly kept it out of an even lower tier. Gemini earns an A-tier placement, praised for being strong in highly data-analytical tasks and described as a longtime favorite.
On the image generation side, the speaker highlights Nano Banana — described as a Google tool specifically for image creation — placing it in B-tier while claiming they see no need for any other image generation tool. Cling AI is discussed for its video generation capabilities, with the new Cling 3 model described as comparable to or better than Sora 2, also landing in B-tier.
Notebook LM receives an A-tier ranking and is called a 'super slept on tool from Google.' The speaker highlights its ability to help users upload large amounts of information and transform it into structured formats like mind maps and podcasts, with students being a primary use case.
Higsfield is placed in S-tier as a platform that aggregates access to multiple top image and video models, praised for providing high utility at low cost. Grok earns an A-tier ranking, described as better than ChatGPT on average and roughly on par with Gemini.
Finally, Claude Code receives an S-tier ranking and the speaker's strongest endorsement, arguing it makes many other tools redundant by enabling individuals to build fully automated agents, platforms, and software in days — work that would otherwise take a full software team months to complete.
Key Insights
- The speaker argues that ChatGPT has been 'going downhill,' claiming its response quality and technological sophistication are not keeping pace with competitors, and that only the Codex 5.3 update saved it from ranking even lower than B-tier.
- The speaker claims Claude Code makes many other AI tools redundant, arguing that what would take a full software team multiple months to build can now be accomplished by an individual in a few days using Claude Code.
- The speaker describes Higsfield as an S-tier tool because it aggregates access to multiple top image and video models in one platform, allowing users to get significant utility without paying large amounts of money.
- The speaker calls Notebook LM a 'super slept on tool from Google,' highlighting its ability to transform uploaded information into structured outputs like mind maps and podcasts, and placing it in A-tier.
- The speaker claims that Cling 3's new video generation model is 'basically on par, if not better, than Sora 2,' signaling that third-party video models have caught up to or surpassed OpenAI's video offering.
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