Author: Lenka Vojtechova

The best open source AI models now score within single digits of GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 on most benchmarks, and you can download their weights for free. GLM 5.2 posts a 62.1 on SWE-bench Pro, DeepSeek V4 hits 80.6 on SWE-Bench Verified, and Gemma 4 runs on a laptop while scoring 85.2% on MMLU-Pro. […]

The best free AI video generators in 2026 are Seedance 2.0 for watermark-free 1080p clips, Hailuo for the most generous daily free allowance, and Kling AI 3.0 for the most realistic short clips. All three let you start with just an email, no credit card, and all three run on daily-refreshing credits so you can […]

Apple Intelligence only runs on a Mac with an M1 chip or newer and macOS 15.1 or later, which locks out every Intel Mac and a lot of older machines still in daily use. The strongest Apple Intelligence alternatives for Mac, including FelloAI, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Raycast AI, DeepSeek and Dottie, give you more […]

More than 10,000 people search every month for how to use Siri shortcuts, and in 2026 the answer changed in a big way. Siri shortcuts let you bundle several actions into a single command you trigger by voice, a tap, or an automatic rule, and the free Shortcuts app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac is […]

Demis Hassabis is the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, and the man whose lab built Gemini, the AI model now woven through Google Search, Android, and soon a Gemini-powered Siri. Born in London in 1976, he was a chess master at 13 and a video-game designer in his […]

NotebookLM is Google’s free, source-grounded AI research tool that reads the documents, PDFs, websites, and YouTube videos you upload, then answers your questions, writes summaries, and turns your material into podcasts, videos, mind maps, and study guides. The key difference from ChatGPT or Gemini is that it only uses the sources you give it, and […]

You can learn ChatGPT for free in a single afternoon, and the most useful training comes straight from the company that built it. OpenAI Academy offers free, self-paced courses for non-technical beginners, and the ChatGPT free tier gives you a capable model at no cost, currently GPT-5.5 Instant by default. You do not need to […]

The company best known for turning text prompts into art just unveiled a medical device. On June 18, 2026, Midjourney announced a new division called Midjourney Medical. Its first piece of hardware is the Midjourney Scanner, a full-body ultrasonic CT machine. It rings your body with roughly 358,000 ultrasound transducers to build detailed cross-sectional images, […]

To use Apple Intelligence, first make sure it is switched on under Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri, then open the feature you want. You select text and tap Writing Tools to rewrite or proofread, open a photo and tap Clean Up to remove an object, describe an image in Image Playground, type a prompt […]

You can learn Claude from zero to seriously useful in about a week of evenings, and you can do it without paying a cent. Anthropic runs its own free training portal, Anthropic Academy, where courses like Claude Code in Action (around 10 hours) and Claude Code 101 come with a free completion certificate you can […]