投稿者: 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 generation, voice conversations, and Deep Research. For a lot of people, that free tier is all they will ever touch. The catch is limits, not features. Free Gemini runs on daily usage caps, holds back video generation, and meters the most powerful models, which is where the paid Google AI Plus at $4.99, Pro at […]

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 $5.00 / $30.00 per million tokens, DeepSeek V4 Flash at $0.14 / $0.28 is 36x cheaper on input and 107x on output. Measured against OpenAI’s cheapest tier, GPT-5.6 Luna at $0.20 / $1.20, the same DeepSeek model is 1.4x and 4.3x cheaper. Both numbers are real, and most comparisons print only the first one. This […]

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 the same time, so you can cut in mid-sentence and it reacts like a person instead of waiting politely for you to finish. This guide covers what GPT-Live actually is, the difference between the free GPT-Live-1 mini and the paid GPT-Live-1, how to turn it on, and how it stacks up against Apple’s brand-new Siri […]

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 and Android. So the short answer to “is Viro AI legit” is yes, it is real and safe to use. The harder question is whether it is actually eco-friendly, and that is where the marketing and the physics part ways. Viro does not make artificial intelligence use less water or electricity; it runs on the […]

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 if you are still searching whether ChatGPT 5.6 is out, the answer is yes, on ChatGPT, Codex, and the API alike, with a documented 1,050,000-token context window and 128,000 tokens of maximum output on the flagship. This article covers everything that matters about the GPT-5.6 release, what each of the three tiers is built for, […]

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 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, and the Defense Secretary labelled the company a “supply chain risk.” It backfired. TechCrunch reported free users up more than 60% since January and paid subscribers more than doubled over the same stretch. For 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 scored 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ahead of every Gemini model, 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 at roughly half the per-task […]