Autor: Lenka Vojtechova

Update, August 2, 2026: One correction first, because most roundups get it wrong. Grok Voice did not launch in June 2026. Voice mode has been in the Grok app since February 2025, and the developer-facing Grok Voice Agent API went live on December 17, 2025. What xAI actually shipped over the summer was Grok Imagine […]

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. […]

Yes, Grok AI is free. You can use it at grok.com or inside X with no credit card and no subscription, and xAI has kept a real free tier rather than a short trial. The catch is the ceiling, and it is not the one most guides quote. xAI does not publish a free-tier number, […]

AI for small business has gone from experiment to everyday tool. In 2026, 58% of US small businesses use generative AI, up from 40% a year earlier and more than double the 2023 rate, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber calls it the fastest technology small firms have picked up since social […]

GLM-5.2 is the top open-weight model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, scoring 51 while costing a fraction of the closed flagships, and that gap is why the GLM vs Claude question has spread into a much bigger fight. Zhipu AI’s open-weight model costs $1.40 input / $4.40 output per million tokens against Claude Opus […]

The Canva AI video generator turns a text prompt into an 8-second, 16:9 video clip with synchronized sound, powered by Google’s Veo 3 model. That headline feature, called Create a Video Clip, sits inside the Canva editor and produces cinematic footage with dialogue, sound design, and music from a single prompt. The catch most reviews […]

OceanHero has helped recover more than 136 million ocean-bound plastic bottles, and the counter on its homepage climbs by tens of thousands every week. The idea is simple. You run a normal web search, OceanHero shows a few ads alongside the results, and the ad money pays people in coastal communities to collect plastic before […]

Mustafa Suleyman runs one of the most powerful jobs in technology, and he thinks the work most of us do is about to change for good. As CEO of Microsoft AI, he told the Financial Times in February 2026 that “most” white-collar tasks will be “fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to […]

Claude Code is free to install but not free to run. The command-line tool itself is free and open-source, so downloading it costs nothing, but every task it performs calls a Claude model, and that usage is what you pay for. You can cover it with a paid Claude Pro or Max plan, with pay-per-token […]