Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying

Does OpenAI have any fundamental advantage beyond brand recognition?

Not really sure since this space is so murky due to the rapid changes happening. It's quite hard to keep track of what's in each offering if you aren't deep into the AI news cycle.

Now personally, I've left the ChatGPT world (meaning I don't pay for a subscription anymore) and have been using Claude from Anthropic much more often for the same tasks, it's been better than my experience with ChatGPT. I prefer Claude's style, Artifacts, etc.

Also been toying with local LLMs for tasks that I know don't require a multi-hundred billion parameters to solve.

Claude is great except for the fact the iOS app seems to require a login every week. I’ve never had to log into ChatGPT but Claude requires a constant login and the passwordless login makes it more of a pain!