投稿者: 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 top at $300 per month. On the API side, the new flagship Grok 4.5 (released July 8, 2026) runs $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens at a 500k token context window, with the prior Grok 4.3 still available cheaper at $1.25 / $2.50 and Grok 4.1 Fast as low as […]

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 family, Sol, Terra, and Luna. If you have been searching whether ChatGPT 5.6 is out, the short answer is that access is finally opening up beyond the trusted-partner wall. This article covers everything that matters about the GPT-5.6 release, what each of the three tiers is built for, how much they cost, the benchmark numbers […]

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 paid developer API. Alongside the model, Meta opened a public preview of the new Meta Model API, marking the first time the company is charging money for access to one of its frontier models. This is a big shift. Meta built its reputation on giving models away, so putting Muse Spark 1.1 behind a metered […]

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: users migrated to Claude out of sympathy for Anthropic’s stance, and the company reported over 60% growth in free users and more than doubled paid subscribers in just a few months. For more on how the two companies’ philosophies shape what you actually see in the chat window, we broke down how Claude and ChatGPT […]

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 10 languages. This article breaks down what Seedream 5 actually does, how it compares to GPT-Image 2 and Google’s Nano Banana Pro, what the API costs, and how the new Pro model differs from the cheaper Seedream 5.0 Lite. You will also see where to try it, whether there is a free option, and who […]

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 hours before it switches to a lighter model until the limit resets. You do need a free account, but you never need a credit card. The real question is not whether ChatGPT is free, but whether the free tier is enough for what you do. This guide covers exactly what the free plan includes, the […]

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 codebase over a long session. The result is a model that lands fourth on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, above every open-weight model and notably above all Gemini models, at a price over 60% lower than Claude Opus 4.8 or GPT-5.5. For coding workloads specifically, independent benchmarks put it on par with GPT-5.5 in Codex […]

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 Q1 then Q2 2026 windows have now slipped. Here is the current reality check. If you feel like the AI news cycle is spinning out of control, you aren’t alone. One minute you are mastering the latest tools, and the next, social media is exploding with rumors about a “Grok 5” that supposedly changes everything. […]

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 up to 16 seconds long with synchronized audio. This guide explains exactly what the Meta AI video generator is, how Vibes and Movie Gen fit together, and how to make your first clip in a few taps. You will also get the honest version of the story, including the fierce “AI slop” backlash at launch, […]

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. The catch is the ceiling on the advanced tools. The real question is not whether Perplexity is free, but whether the free tier is enough for what you do. This guide covers exactly what the free plan includes, the daily Pro Search limit and how it works, which AI models you actually get, why Perplexity […]