mAIn Street #54: Tipping Point: 61% of Americans Now Use AI; Smarter Ways to Handle Long Prompts, YouTube Script Generator, Fixing Context; Tabl Is a 'Multi-Player Web Browser'


JULY 2, 2025

  • PromptCraft: Smarter Ways to Handle Long Prompts, YouTube Script Generator, Fixing Context
  • Tipping Point: 61% of Americans Now Use AI
  • THE HEADLINES
  • Tool Spotlight: Tabl Is a 'Multi-Player Web Browser'

Smarter Ways to Handle Long Prompts; YouTube Script Generator; Fixing Context; and other discussions and prompts!

Tipping Point: 61% of Americans Now Use AI

In a recent report from Menlo Ventures, the research firm attempted to unpack all the ways we’re using AI at work and home.

The survey was of 5,000 people. Of that 5,000, around 61% fessed up to ChatGPT-ing it. (The most preferred chatbot among them.)

“The fact that more than half of Americans already use AI is remarkable, especially considering most are just using it for quick, simple tasks,” said Shawn Carolan, Partner at Menlo Ventures. “The biggest opportunity lies ahead when AI handles complex jobs from start to finish. Imagine a parent saying, ‘Plan summer for my kids,’ and the AI takes care of everything: researching camps, juggling schedules, buying gear, coordinating carpools. That’s the promise: less drudgery, more living.”

Unfortunately, we ain’t there yet.

Only 3% of users actually pay for an account. And if you’re not paying, you’re not taking advantage of all AI has to offer.

We’ll illustrate it in dollar amounts. Generative AI tools are now a $12 billion industry if you go by the people paying for it.

But when you multiply the average cost a subscription by the people actually using it — this includes free accounts — the amount should be $432 billion.

That means $420 billion of the GenAI market is made up of freeloaders. Their typical use-cases include:

  • Writing emails
  • Managing to-do lists
  • Researching topics of interest
  • Receive writing support
  • Meal planning
  • Managing expenses
  • Organizing notes
  • Creating images
  • Researching health questions

Most of these tasks are simple to pull off. You share an example of what you’re after, tell the AI what to do, and hit Enter.

But they’re nowhere close to how far AI can go.

Just this week, I pondered how AI might be able to help me get a better handle on my finances. In the past, I’d just create a spreadsheet with all my expenses and earnings laid out.

It usually entailed a lot of data entry.

But that was before realizing you could lean on the visual recognition capabilities of AI. So, I decided to save a month of my transactions to a PDF directly from the mobile browser.

(Thank you, Full Page Screenshot.)

After that, I uploaded it to Gemini, and in a few minutes, I had an interactive dashboard that showed me exact income versus exact expenses, as well as a list of consolidated expenses so I could see how much I spent in each place, along with the number of transactions, all at once.

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Tabl Is a 'Multi-Player Web Browser': Check It Out Below!

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Tabl imagines the entire web as the kind of shared canvas you get in Figma: open any site and you’ll see teammates’ avatars gliding across the page, trade cursor control in a “Shared Window,” and talk through tweaks without firing up a separate screen-share.

The makers frame it as a work-only companion to your default browser—keep Chrome or Brave for personal stuff, launch Tabl when you need rapid, multiplayer edits on Notion docs, dashboards, or even YouTube walkthroughs. That pitch resonated: Tabl 1.0 took the #1 slot on Product Hunt’s leaderboard the day it debuted (June 30, 2025) and holds a perfect 5-star rating from early reviewers.

What sets the browser apart is its onboarding. “Multiplayer products need multiplayer onboarding,” co-founder Yamato Kaneko says, so the team built Tabl Unlock, an escape-room-style tour that forces colleagues to solve short puzzles across real web apps before they’ve even created their first tab group.

It’s a clever way to show off built-in audio chat, presence indicators, and the one-click “Switch Control” hand-off while ensuring no one installs the tool in isolation. Tabl is free on macOS and Windows today, with premium collaboration tiers and an AI “clone of you” (trained on your browsing activity and ready to answer teammates’ questions when you’re offline) on the roadmap.


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