Autore: Lenka Vojtechova

Yes, Google Gemini is free to use. The free plan costs $0 with no credit card, and it is not a stripped-back demo. Google’s plans page now lists the free tier as access to Gemini 3.6 Flash, the model it shipped on July 21, 2026, plus varying access to the stronger Gemini 3.1 Pro, image […]

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 reached general availability on July 9, 2026, and DeepSeek’s answer landed on July 31 as V4-Flash-0731. The two sit close enough on coding and reasoning that the argument has moved almost entirely to cost, and there the honest answer depends on which OpenAI tier you actually compare against. Measured against GPT-5.6 Sol at […]

OpenAI launched GPT-Live, the new ChatGPT Live voice, on July 8, 2026, and it quietly replaced the Advanced Voice Mode you have been using for the past two years. The headline change is technical but you will feel it in the first ten seconds. GPT-Live is full-duplex, which means it can listen and speak at […]

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 […]

Claude hit #1 on the App Store free chart on February 28, 2026, pushing ChatGPT out of the top spot for the first time. The catalyst was Anthropic refusing the Pentagon’s demand to strip the guardrails off Claude for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. The administration then told federal agencies to stop buying Anthropic products, […]

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 […]