Grok Imagine generated 1.245 billion videos in the 30 days leading up to its 1.0 release in early February 2026. That release bumped the model to 720p, 10-second clips, and dramatically better native audio. With OpenAI’s Sora 2 winding down by September 24, 2026, Grok Imagine now sits next to Google Veo 3.1 and Kling 3.0 as the dominant video APIs going forward, and it is the cheapest of the three. Curious how Grok’s chatbot stacks up against ChatGPT for everyday tasks? See our full Grok vs ChatGPT comparison. What separates a usable Grok Imagine clip from a wasted credit is almost always the prompt. This guide is the working […]

Google’s mysterious Omni video model surfaced inside the Gemini app days before I/O 2026. We cover the leaked UI string, the early demo videos, and the three theories about what Omni actually is.

OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026, and DeepSeek countered with V4 Pro and V4 Flash the very next day. The two flagships now sit a few benchmark points apart on coding and reasoning, but the cost gap is enormous: DeepSeek V4 Flash output tokens cost $0.28 per million versus GPT-5.5 at $30, more than 100 times cheaper. That single number reshapes the entire DeepSeek vs ChatGPT debate. This guide compares the current 2026 flagships head to head across performance, pricing, features, privacy, and real-world use cases. You’ll see the canonical benchmark numbers, monthly cost scenarios at different scales, the privacy and censorship reality of each platform, and a clear […]

Grok Imagine Spicy Mode is xAI’s opt-in adult-content tier inside the Grok Imagine image and video generator. Since launching on August 4, 2025, it has been the most permissive feature shipped by any major AI lab. It allows partial nudity, suggestive scenes, and what xAI describes as “bolder cinematic tones,” but it is not a porn generator. Elon Musk publicly clarified the standard on March 12, 2026: “If it’s allowed in an R-rated movie, it’s allowed in Grok Imagine.” Curious how Grok’s chatbot stacks up against ChatGPT for everyday tasks? See our full Grok vs ChatGPT comparison. That single line is the cleanest way to think about it. Spicy Mode […]

An AI just hacked its way across 4 countries and cloned itself onto each one from a single prompt. Here’s what Palisade’s May 2026 study really proved.

Update — May 12, 2026: The certificate revocation went live on schedule on May 8, 2026. If your ChatGPT, Codex, Codex CLI, or Atlas Mac app now refuses to open and shows a “damaged” or “cannot be verified” warning, this guide still works; the fastest fix is a fresh download from chatgpt.com/download, since the in-app updater is no longer reachable from any build signed with the revoked certificate. On May 8, 2026, OpenAI revoked the macOS code-signing certificate it had used to sign ChatGPT, Codex, Codex CLI, and Atlas through April 2026. From that day on, macOS Gatekeeper refuses to launch any version still signed with the old certificate, so […]

Kling AI pricing in 2026 covers five plans. Free is $0/month with 66 daily credits, Standard is $10/month, Pro is $37/month, Premier is $92/month, and Ultra sits at the top at $180/month. New subscribers pay a discounted first month (Standard $6.99, Pro $25.99, Premier $64.99, Ultra $127.99), then plans renew at a smaller standing discount. The catch is the credit system; every video burns a different amount of credits depending on the model, the mode, and whether you turn on native audio. That’s why the headline price tells you almost nothing about what you’ll actually spend. The cheap $6.99 Standard price you see advertised only applies to your first month; […]

Baidu released ERNIE 5.1 on May 8, 2026, hitting #4 on LMArena Search using only 6% of normal pre-training cost. We cover benchmarks, architecture, agentic performance, and how it compares to DeepSeek V4 Pro, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3.1 Pro.

Claude Code costs $20/month on the Pro plan ($17 annual), $100/month on Max 5x, $200/month on Max 20x, $25/seat/month on Team Standard ($20 annual), $125/seat/month on Team Premium ($100 annual), or $20/seat plus API usage on Enterprise. The Free Claude tier does not include Claude Code. API access bills per token at $1/$5 per million on Haiku 4.5, $3/$15 on Sonnet 4.6, and $5/$25 on Opus 4.7. The Claude for Open Source program offers six months of Max 20x free for qualifying maintainers, a $1,200 value. That short answer is also the long story of Claude Code pricing in 2026. Anthropic shipped three policy changes in 60 days and briefly […]

Grok Imagine is the fastest AI video generator most people can actually use right now. It takes a text prompt, a voice command, or a still photo and turns it into a short video with synchronized audio in roughly 17 seconds. That’s faster than Sora 2 or Veo 3.1 by a wide margin. xAI launched it on July 28, 2025 and shipped Grok Imagine 1.0 on February 1, 2026, raising the cap to 10-second clips at 720p with dramatically better sound. Curious how Grok’s chatbot stacks up against ChatGPT for everyday tasks? See our full Grok vs ChatGPT comparison. This guide covers what Grok Imagine actually is, the five workflows […]