投稿者: Lenka Vojtechova

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 Liang Wenfeng holding R2 back because he was not satisfied with its performance. This page tracks exactly where DeepSeek R2 stands right now, what has actually shipped versus what is still rumor, and the specs, pricing, and timeline the leaks point to. You will also see why the launch keeps slipping, the chip drama behind […]

GLM 5.5 is reportedly expected in August 2026, according to a June 30 report from CGTN on Zhipu AI. That would make it the direct successor to GLM-5.2, the open-weight model that shipped on June 13 and immediately became the highest-scoring open-source model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 51. Zhipu has not published an official launch date, so August is a strong signal rather than a locked promise. This article pulls together every credible signal on GLM 5.5 in one place. You will get the reported timing, the release cadence that backs it up, a clear-eyed view of what the specs and price are likely […]

You can now make an AI podcast in under an hour, and the fastest path takes about a minute. You add a source or a topic, pick a length and style, and the tool writes a two-host script, voices it with synthetic hosts, and hands you an MP3 you can play like any other show. No microphone, no recording session, no editing suite required. This guide walks the full workflow, not just one button. We cover the exact steps to make an AI podcast, the fast one-click path versus the full creator route, how to write a script the AI voices well, the best free tools to start with, and […]

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, Projects, and Artifacts at no cost. So the real question is not whether Claude is free, but whether the free plan is enough for you. This guide covers exactly what the free tier includes, the message limits and how they reset, which Claude model you actually get, and when it makes sense to pay. If […]

The Canva AI photo editor is not one button, it is a stack of seven AI tools built into Canva’s editor that change photos you already have. You can add or swap objects with a prompt, erase distractions with a brush, stretch a photo past its original frame, lift the subject off its background, and as of March 2026 break a flat image into editable layers. Most of it runs on Premium AI credits, and you get a small free allowance before Canva asks you to upgrade. This guide walks through every AI editing tool by name, shows the exact menu path to trigger each one, and lays out what […]

An AI podcast is an audio episode that software writes and voices for you, instead of people recording into a microphone. You hand a tool a source, such as a block of text, a PDF, your notes, or just a topic, and it produces a finished show, usually a two-host conversation you can play like any other podcast. No studio, no editing suite, and the fastest tools do it in about a minute. This guide explains exactly what an AI podcast is, how the technology turns words into a natural-sounding episode, and where it differs from plain text-to-speech. We also cover what you can feed one, why people use them, […]

GLM pricing is the headline reason developers keep switching to Zhipu AI’s models. The flagship GLM-5.2 costs just $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output on the official API, roughly one-sixth of what GPT-5.5 charges, and the older GLM-4.7 is cheaper still. You can also use GLM free in the browser, and two of the models cost nothing at all through the API. This guide breaks down every way you pay for GLM in 2026: the free tier, the per-token API rates for each model, and the GLM Coding Plan subscription that starts at $18 a month. We finish with a cost comparison against Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini […]

Text to podcast AI turns a block of writing, a set of notes, or a PDF into a two-host audio episode in about a minute, with no microphone and no recording session. You paste or upload your content, pick a length and style, and the tool writes a script, voices it with synthetic hosts, and hands you an MP3 you can play like any other show. This guide is tool-agnostic and practical. We cover what text to podcast tools actually do, the exact steps to turn text into a podcast, which inputs work (text, notes, PDFs, and links), and the best free options to test first. If you would rather […]

Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with a native 1-million-token context window, released on June 30, 2026 under a permissive MIT license. It is the model that quietly topped global developer charts on OpenRouter for two months under the codename “Owl Alpha”, and Meituan says it is the first trillion-parameter model trained and served end-to-end on Chinese-made chips, with no Nvidia GPUs involved. This article breaks down what LongCat-2.0 actually is, how its unusual architecture keeps a 1.6T model cheap to run, what the vendor-reported benchmarks claim, and how you can try it today. We also flag where the hype outruns the evidence, because the headline numbers […]

ChatGPT is usually slow for one of four reasons: high server load at peak times, a heavy reasoning model like GPT-5.5 Thinking, a very long conversation the model has to reprocess, or a local browser, extension, or network problem. The good news is that most cases clear up in under a minute once you know which one you are dealing with. This guide breaks down every reason ChatGPT feels slow in 2026, then walks you through 8 fixes that actually work. You will learn how to tell whether the problem is on OpenAI’s side or yours, why GPT-5 models can feel sluggish by design, and what to change on your […]