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ChatGPT vs Granola

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Granola handles meetings by recording and recalling everything, while ChatGPT does not offer this meeting assistance or recall.

Only use ChatGPT if you do not need meeting memory, otherwise choose Granola for any meeting or brainstorming session.

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Granola is purpose built for meetings and acts as an always-on assistant that captures every conversation, enabling perfect recall and real-time context-aware help during calls. It listens without requiring bots, works in both virtual and in-person settings, and lets you query past meetings instantly. If meeting memory, mid-call context, and seamless note taking are what you care about, Granola is the clear pick.

ChatGPT, on the other hand, is a general purpose AI you can use for just about anything, including coding help or answering questions. It's accessible to everyone and doesn't require technical skills, but it isn't designed to automatically capture meeting content or provide on-the-fly context during calls. If you need a meeting assistant, ChatGPT simply can't compete with Granola's specialized workflow.

So if your focus is meeting recall, context, and hands-off note taking, Granola outperforms ChatGPT by a mile. For anything outside meetings, ChatGPT is broader, but for meetings, Granola is what you want.

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ChatGPT Editor's Verdict

What is ChatGPT?

What really is there to say? ChatGPT was the fastest-growing consumer app in history when it launched. It reached 1 million users in about 5 days after launch and 100 million users in about 2 months after launch.

OpenAI is general artificial intelligence. You can ask it questions, and it'll answer them, like a human. You can ask it to write code for you, and it'll build it, all while explaining the why and how.

Engineering friends of mine are worried that it'll replace their job, and yet they are using it to become a better engineer (using it to teach them different coding languages).

The craziest thing of it all, anyone can use it, and you don't even need to be technical to use it. Just visit ChatGPT here and start asking it questions. You'll be amazed by what it can do. If you're more technical, then be sure to check out the actual API and see where you can fit it into what you're building (I mean everyone else is).

Everyone is trying to build a OpenAI (ChatGPT) into their product right now. It's the closest thing we've seen to magic in an incredibly long time.

Granola Editor's Verdict

What is Granola?

Granola is a meeting recorder tool that doesn't require those annoying bots to join. In-fact the people you're on the call with don't even have to know you're using it.

Interestingly enough, this isn't any different than just having a note taker on the call, because they don't allow you to playback the audio. What you can do is ask Granola's AI Chatbot questions about the call, or any calls you've had across the company.

You can even ask Granola questions mid-call, which uses full context of the call up to that point, or can even come up with contextual questions to ask to help the conversation flowing. It's really as if you have an active note taking assistant on the call alongside you, helping you keep the conversation flowing, and researching further context details when needed.

We make sure to always have Granola recording our meetings (even in-person team meetings and brainstorming meetings), even if we have one of the best AI note taker bots joining the call as well. It's just a more lightweight solution that can't be kicked from calls and is less invasive.