Étiquette : claude

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: […]

GLM-5.2 is the top open-weight model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ranking 4th overall 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 […]

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 […]

Yes, Claude AI is free. You can sign up at claude.ai with no credit card and start chatting straight away, and as of July 1, 2026 the free plan runs Claude Sonnet 5, Anthropic’s newest default model. The free tier gives you roughly 15 to 40 messages every 5 hours, plus web search, file uploads, […]

On June 30, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, the newest version of its balanced mid tier model and the most agentic Sonnet the company has ever shipped. It is the direct successor to Sonnet 4.6, and it lands with one clear pitch: near Opus 4.8 quality at a fraction of the cost. The headline […]

Most “free” AI chatbots quietly cut you off after a handful of messages. ChatGPT drops you to a weaker model once you burn through its daily GPT-5.5 allowance, Claude pauses you after roughly 15 to 40 messages in a five-hour window, and Gemini throttles its best model after about 50 requests a day. The free […]

Update, July 1, 2026: The hardest example below has partly unwound. The US lifted the export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 30, and Fable 5 returned globally on July 1; Mythos 5 is back for a set of approved US organizations. The broader shift this article describes has not reversed, […]

If Claude AI is not responding for you right now, you are far from alone. On June 23, 2026, outage reports for Claude peaked above 7,000 in the United States on Downdetector, and Anthropic later confirmed an “elevated error rate” across its models. That single incident was widely described as the tenth Claude disruption in […]

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 […]

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 […]