Etiqueta: AI news

Viro AI is a free, eco-branded alternative to ChatGPT that lets you chat with models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude while every message funds renewable energy. It is a genuine product from Viro Climate Action, Inc., it holds a 4.9-star rating across 115 ratings on the App Store, and it is live on both iOS […]

GPT-5.6 has been generally available since July 9, 2026, the day OpenAI ended a two-week lockdown that had limited the model to roughly 20 US-government-vetted organizations. The US Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation completed its review and cleared wider access to all three models in the family, Sol, Terra, and Luna. So […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. The free plan caps you at roughly 10 prompts every 2 hours on a lighter model, […]

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 […]

As of July 2026, DeepSeek R2 still has not launched, and DeepSeek has never confirmed a release date. The company that shook the AI world with R1 in early 2025 spent 2026 shipping something else entirely, the DeepSeek V4 series, while its next dedicated reasoning model stayed locked behind closed doors. Reports point to founder […]