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Partner; Co-founder LinkedIn at Greylock / Manas AI / Inflection.
Tools Reid Hoffman has publicly discussed or demonstrated using. Curated by Magpie's editorial team from podcasts, posts, and public stacks.
Reid Hoffman is co-founder of LinkedIn and partner at Greylock. He's the host of Possible and Masters of Scale and has written books and essays on the future of AI. His public commentary skews strategic; specific-tool mentions are less frequent than for builders or creators.
Hoffman co-wrote his book Impromptu with GPT-4 and frames ChatGPT as 'an on-demand personal research assistant'. He's published a LinkedIn pulse article walking through how he uses his AI avatar (built on GPT-4 with custom chatbot logic) and has openly recommended experimenting with ChatGPT, Pi and DALL-E or Midjourney to anyone learning the modern AI stack.
Hoffman recommends Midjourney as a default image-generation experiment for anyone trying to understand modern AI, alongside ChatGPT and Inflection's Pi. He frames it as one of the canonical creative-AI tools worth testing personally rather than reading about.
Hoffman built his AI avatar 'Reid AI' on ElevenLabs for the voice clone, paired with Hour One for video and a custom GPT-4 chatbot for the dialogue layer. He uses the avatar publicly (interviewing himself, hosting on Possible) and has framed ElevenLabs as the production-ready voice primitive for personal AI experiments at scale.
Last researched May 10, 2026
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