LinkedIn’s new Crosscheck feature lets premium subscribers test competing AI models for free
You can now use LinkedIn to test some of the latest AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and other companies without having to worry about token limits or paying for an additional subscription. The professional network is experimenting with a new feature that allows users to test the latest offerings from AI platforms within LinkedIn.
It’s called Crosscheck and is now available to anyone with a LinkedIn Premium subscription in the United States. The feature is meant to be a sort of “blind taste test” for AI models, according to Hari Srinivasan, the company’s chief product officer. Users start with a prompt and get two answers, each provided by a different template. Only after you choose the pattern you prefer will you be able to see the underlying patterns behind each one.
Srinivasan says that Crosscheck is still an “early product” from LinkedIn Labs and that “there is work to do to make it faster and add more templates and question types.” But it already seems to support a fairly wide range of models. During my initial testing of the feature, I saw several responses generated by Anthropic models, as well as those from Google, MoonshotAI, Mistral, and Amazon. Crosscheck will also have its own ranking that tracks how people from different industries rate different models.
After choosing an answer you prefer, LinkedIn will display which model provided each answer. (LinkedIn screenshot)
Crosscheck only supports text prompts, so you can’t generate images, upload files, or use some of the more advanced tools that would be available natively on the AI platforms themselves. But there’s no limit to the number of text chats you can have, so you don’t have to worry about token limits or sign up for an expensive subscription if you find a model useful.
LinkedIn does, however, share data with the respective AI companies who will presumably use the insights gleaned from using LinkedIn to improve their products. “Anonymized data is shared with model creators to help them understand how their models perform in different professions,” the company explains. “No personally identifiable information is shared with modelers.”
Although Crosscheck is initially only available to LinkedIn Premium subscribers in the United States, the company plans to expand the feature to more countries and free users “soon.”
