Costco vs. Amazon, Microsoft's latest Copilot, and a Zulily conspiracy theory
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🗓️ 20 January 2024
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Summary
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we consider Microsoft's latest AI product, the $20/month Copilot Pro, compare it to the likes of ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro and Otter.ai — and realize in the process that one of us is already paying way too much for AI assistants on a monthly basis.
Plus, a deep dive on Zulily bolsters a hypothesis about the motives of the private equity firm that acquired and later shut down the online retailer.
And finally, we compare, contrast, and appreciate the very different approaches taken by Costco and Amazon for authenticating the identity of customers at store entrances and check-out.
With GeekWire co-founders John Cook and Todd Bishop.
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- Copilot Pro vs. ChatGPT Plus: Microsoft’s new paid service offers alternative to OpenAI subscription
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- Scanning against scammers: Costco testing membership card readers at store entrances
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| 0:00.0 | I've gotten into actually these YouTube videos lately where it's these |
| 0:05.0 | Costco deal people who go in and they scout the best deals for you. |
| 0:10.0 | Oh yeah, they're you tubers, huh? You just do this. |
| 0:13.0 | Well, they do different places, but there is a sub-genre that is these Costco people. |
| 0:18.0 | And then there's a sub-genre of the sub-genre where there's this guy who goes in specifically to the food and he reads the labels and tells you |
| 0:28.4 | whether it's actually nutritional or not. So you're not a Costco guy. I would strike you as one, wouldn't I? |
| 0:34.7 | Very much so. |
| 0:35.7 | Bulk and cheap. |
| 0:37.0 | Hi and welcome to GeekWire. I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. |
| 0:47.0 | And I'm GeekWire co-founder John Cook. |
| 0:49.0 | We are coming to you from Seattle where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in business technology and innovation |
| 0:54.8 | what happens here matters everywhere and every week on this show we get to talk about some of the most interesting stories in the news |
| 1:01.2 | coming up John I want to talk about Costco and their new |
| 1:05.0 | requirements for entry, so let's save that for the last segment. That's the |
| 1:09.2 | real talker of the week, especially here in the Pacific Northwest. |
| 1:12.6 | Got some thoughts. |
| 1:13.4 | Okay. In the meantime, I don't know if you noticed this week, but Microsoft came out |
| 1:18.8 | with a new AI offering. |
| 1:20.6 | It seems to be one a week basically for Microsoft these days. |
| 1:25.0 | Co-Pilot Pro. |
| 1:27.0 | Cool. |
| 1:28.0 | This is interesting to me in part because it's basically a competitor to ChatGPT plus. |
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