Who Controls Your AI Marketing Stack? (AI Sovereignty)
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Eric and Neil discuss the implications of AI sovereignty in marketing and the control of data in the industry.
Growth Newsletter: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe Need marketing help? Visit: https://www.singlegrain.com/ and https://npdigital.com/ Want to recruit great marketers? Find them here: https://marketingschool.io/hire After Anthropic quietly shipped a Figma competitor and handed Figma only a basic version of its updated design tool, Eric and Neil dig into the David Sachs warning that is rattling founders: feed the frontier labs all your context and data, and you hand them everything they need to compete with you. They walk through why Claude keeps your context after you leave, why GLM 5.2 on Open Router runs a fraction of the cost, and Microsoft's 2.5 billion dollar "your data is your data" pitch. The conversation turns to the forward deployed marketer, the two clashing cultures inside every agency right now, and why some AI-forward shops are trading at more than 30 times profit. Eric even demos the business video game he built over a weekend. The tools are incredible, but whose competitor you become depends on what you give away. Key takeaways ◾Whoever holds your context and data can build your competitor ◾Open weights like GLM 5.2 buy you control and far lower cost ◾AI…
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