On April 23, 2026, OpenAI introduced GPT-5.5, its most capable model to date and the first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5. The release brings state-of-the-art scores on Terminal-Bench 2.0, OSWorld, and GDPval, a much stronger agentic coding profile in Codex, a new Pro tier, and a pricing step up that reflects the jump in intelligence. GPT-5.5 is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users across ChatGPT and Codex. GPT-5.5 Pro is available to Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers. For anyone using Fello AI on Mac, iPhone, or iPad, GPT-5.5 will be available in upcoming weeks alongside Claude 4.6, Gemini 3, DeepSeek, Kimi-K2.6, and Perplexity in the same […]

Update — May 2, 2026: Read our new Grok 4.3 review. A single Perplexity Deep Research query now runs dozens of searches, reads hundreds of sources, and delivers a cited report in 2 to 4 minutes. On the heavier end, ChatGPT Deep Research can browse the web for up to 30 minutes and pull from hundreds of pages. In 2026, every major AI tool has shipped its own version of search, deep research, or both, and the gap between “ask a question” and “commission a research assistant” has collapsed into a single click. This guide compares the six AI search and deep research tools most people will actually use in […]

On April 16, 2026, OpenAI pushed the biggest update yet to its Codex Mac app and the headline is simple, Codex can now take control of your Mac. The feature is called codex mac computer use, and it lets Codex see your screen, move its own cursor, click, and type across any macOS app you have open. OpenAI also added an in-app browser, image generation with gpt-image-2.0, memory, and over 90 new plugins in the same release. We spent a day with the updated app on Apple Silicon and on an Intel Mac. The short version, Codex on Mac stopped being a coding tool and turned into a general-purpose agent […]

Three mysterious image models appeared on LM Arena and vanished within hours. Here’s everything leaked about OpenAI’s GPT Image 2, including capabilities, benchmarks, and expected release date.

Update — May 2, 2026: Read our new Grok 4.3 review. ChatGPT crossed 900 million weekly active users in early 2026, but most of them are paying $20 a month for a single model when the same cash could buy access to GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Grok 4.3 (released April 30, 2026) in one app. If you are on Mac, you have more options than the default ChatGPT desktop app gives you, and most of them are cheaper, faster, or both. Apple is opening up too: at WWDC 2026 it confirmed you can set ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini as your default AI on iPhone and Mac, […]

Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studio leaks point to 80 GPU cores, 256GB memory, and a WWDC 2026 reveal. Full breakdown of specs, price, date, and local AI power.

Update, June 10, 2026: The Grok 5 picture sharpened in late May and June. xAI shipped Grok Voice (June 4), pushed Grok Imagine Video 1.5 to the top of the image-to-video leaderboard, and Elon Musk confirmed that a new 1.5-trillion-parameter coding model, Grok V9-Medium, finished training. 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 […]

Update, April 23, 2026: The “Spud” mystery is solved. OpenAI shipped the model on April 23, 2026 and branded it GPT-5.5, not GPT-6. It launched in three variants (standard, GPT-5.5 Thinking, GPT-5.5 Pro) and hit 88.7% on SWE-bench Verified, 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, and an Intelligence Index of 59 (second only to Grok 5). OpenAI says GPT-5.5 has 60% fewer hallucinations than GPT-5.4. The SWE-bench Pro score came in at 58.6%, well short of the “high 70s” leaks — one reason OpenAI kept the GPT-5 branding. Read the full launch breakdown in OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5. GPT-6 now refers to OpenAI’s next-next model. The context below is preserved as a record […]

The five open-source AI models worth running on an M5 Mac in April 2026 are Mistral 7B (16 GB), Qwen 3.5 9B (24 GB), DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B (24 GB), Gemma 4 26B-A4B (32 GB), and Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B (32 GB+). Minimum unified memory is 16 GB, the sweet spot is 24 GB, and anything above 30B parameters needs 32 GB or more. Frontier open-source models like GLM 5.2 or the full DeepSeek R1 need hundreds of GBs of VRAM, so skip those entirely. The five below are what actually fits. Apple’s own MLX benchmarks show the M5 chip delivering a 3 to 4 times speedup on time-to-first-token compared […]

On April 16, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model to date. The update brings a 13% lift on coding benchmarks, 3x more production tasks resolved, high-resolution vision support up to 3.75 megapixels, and a new tokenizer. Pricing stays the same as Opus 4.6 at $5/$25 per million tokens. Claude Opus 4.7 is available now across the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. It replaces Opus 4.6 as the default Opus model. What Changed in Opus 4.7 Opus 4.7 is not a new model tier. It is a direct upgrade to Opus 4.6, continuing Anthropic’s roughly two-month release cadence (Opus […]