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ChatGPT vs Claude — How People Actually Use Them 👀
How to create 3D figurines with NanoBanana
Gina Acosta
September 16, 2025
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
Two of the biggest AI labs just released reports on how people are using their models.
Let’s take a look!
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
How People Actually Use ChatGPT and Claude
OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5-Codex to Boost Agentic Coding
AI Tutorial: How to create 3D figurines with NanoBanana
AI Tools to check out
AI Findings/Resources
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
AI News
OPENAI & ANTHROPIC
How People Actually Use ChatGPT and Claude
OpenAI just released a research paper analyzing millions of ChatGPT conversations, while Anthropic published its third Economic Index report on Claude usage. Among the many charts and stats, we find some interesting insights into who’s using AI and why.
Details:
ChatGPT use is now mostly non-work. Work use fell from 47% in June 2024 to 27%, even as daily messages grew from roughly 451 million to 2.6 billion over the same period.
The top ChatGPT uses are practical guidance (like tutoring, teaching, and how-tos), information lookups (people, current news, products, etc.), and writing. Together, these account for nearly 80% of all conversations.
Coding makes up about 4.2%. At work, over 40% of usage is writing, mostly editing text people already wrote.
Anthropic’s report divides tasks into two categories: Automation (where Claude completes work with little input) and Augmentation (where humans and AI work together through learning, iteration, and validation).
People seem to be delegating entire tasks to Claude with little back-and-forth, as Automation is now 49.1% versus 47% for Augmentation.
In enterprise APIs, 77% of use shows automation patterns and 44% is coding, showing that more businesses are relying on Claude to put tasks on autopilot.
ChatGPT has about 700M weekly users and is growing faster in lower-income countries, while people in higher-income countries are more likely to use Claude, with its biggest share in the US and the highest per-capita usage in Israel.
The reports offer an interesting snapshot of AI so far and how usage patterns differ between competitors.
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OPENAI
OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5-Codex to Boost Agentic Coding
OpenAI is upgrading its coding agent Codex with GPT-5-Codex. The model can spend its “thinking” time more dynamically than previous versions, ranging anywhere from a few seconds to seven hours on a coding task.
Details:
GPT-5-Codex outperforms GPT-5 on SWE-bench Verified, as well as on benchmarks measuring performance on code refactoring tasks from large repositories.
The company says it trained GPT-5-Codex for conducting code reviews and worked with experienced software engineers to evaluate the model’s review comments. It now submits fewer incorrect comments while adding more “high-impact” feedback.
The new model is rolling out in Codex products for all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Edu, and Enterprise users, with plans to make it available to API customers soon.
The competition is fierce when it comes to AI coding products such as Claude Code, Anysphere’s Cursor, and Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot. OpenAI hopes this upgrade will give it the boost it needs.
AI Tutorial
How to create 3D figurines with NanoBanana
You’ve probably noticed a new trend filling platforms like Instagram and TikTok: people sharing 3D figurines of themselves.
It blew up after celebrities, influencers, and even politicians posted realistic digital figurines of themselves, their pets, and their friends.
Here’s how to make your own:
Go to the Gemini website or mobile app and select the Gemini 2.5 Flash model, or go to Google AI Studio and choose the Nano Banana/gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview model.
Upload your image and enter this prompt:
“Create a 1/7 scale commercialized figurine of the characters in the picture, in a realistic style, in a real environment. The figurine is placed on a computer desk. The figurine has a round transparent acrylic base, with no text on the base. The content on the computer screen is a 3D modeling process of this figurine. Next to the computer screen is a toy packaging box, designed in a style reminiscent of high-quality collectible figures, printed with original artwork. The packaging features two-dimensional flat illustrations.”
You can tweak the prompt if you want a specific look, for example if you want a Bandai-style toy box.
Tips for best results:
Use high-quality images with good lighting and clear details.
Upload a full-body photo (head to toe) for a more accurate representation.
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The latest in AI and Tech
At its annual Connect event, Meta is expected to debut the new "Hypernova" glasses, which include a built-in display and a gesture-control wristband, with a reported price of around $800.
The company is rolling out a free Copilot Chat sidebar in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote for all Microsoft 365 business users today. The tool can draft, summarize, and analyze files without a separate Copilot license. Paid Copilot subscribers still get deeper integration, with GPT-5 access, file uploads, image generation, and faster performance.
Mike Liberatore, former finance chief at Elon Musk’s xAI, is now OpenAI’s new business finance officer. He’ll oversee the company’s massive compute spending and report to CFO Sarah Friar.
The update is “going live over the next couple of days” and will be unifying features like “custom instructions” and personality configuration under one menu
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