Autor: Lenka Vojtechova

xAI now sells Grok across six consumer tiers plus a separate developer API, and the price spread between them is huge. The free tier costs $0, X Premium is $8 per month, SuperGrok Lite is $10 per month, SuperGrok is $30 per month, X Premium+ is $40 per month, and SuperGrok Heavy sits at the […]

OpenAI began the broad public rollout of GPT-5.6 on July 9, 2026, two weeks after the model first shipped as a locked-down preview to roughly 20 US-government-vetted organizations. The launch comes after the US Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation completed its review and cleared wider access to the three models in the […]

Muse Spark 1.1 landed on July 9, 2026, and Meta is calling it its strongest model yet for real-world coding and agentic work. The upgrade comes from Meta Superintelligence Labs, the team Meta assembled to close the gap with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, and it arrives with a feature that changes Meta’s whole strategy; a […]

Claude hit #1 on the App Store in early 2026, pushing ChatGPT out of the top spot for the first time. The catalyst was Anthropic publicly refusing the Pentagon’s demand to deploy its models for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, after which the government labelled Anthropic a “supply chain risk.” The backlash flipped the script: […]

ByteDance released Seedream 5.0 Pro on July 8, 2026, and it is the company’s most direct challenger yet to GPT-Image 2. The new model from ByteDance’s Seed research team is built for production design rather than one-off pictures, with native output up to 2K resolution, pixel-level editing, separable layers, and text rendering across more than […]

Yes, ChatGPT is free. Anyone can use it at no cost on the web and in the iPhone and Android apps, and the free plan is permanent rather than a short trial. As of 2026 the free tier runs on GPT-5.5 Instant, OpenAI’s fast everyday model, with a cap of roughly 10 messages every 5 […]

On July 8, 2026, xAI released Grok 4.5, its first model built specifically for coding and agentic work. This is not a general capability upgrade. It is a deliberate pivot toward developers, with training done using real Cursor developer session data and benchmarks designed to measure what an AI can actually do inside a real […]

Update, July 10, 2026: The Grok 5 picture sharpened over the summer. xAI shipped Grok Voice (June 4), pushed Grok Imagine Video 1.5 to the top of the image-to-video leaderboard, and then released the 1.5-trillion-parameter V9 coding model as Grok 4.5 on July 8, 2026. None of that is Grok 5 itself, and the original […]

Meta’s AI video generator is free, it lives inside the Meta AI app and on meta.ai, and in 2026 most people reach it through Vibes, a scrolling feed of short AI clips that launched on September 25, 2025. Behind that friendly feed sits Movie Gen, Meta’s 30-billion-parameter research model that can produce 1080p HD video […]

Yes, Perplexity AI is free. You can use it at perplexity.ai with no credit card and no account needed for basic searches, and Perplexity runs a permanent free tier rather than a short trial. The free plan gives you unlimited quick searches with real source citations, which already puts it ahead of a plain chatbot. […]