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Claude Code is free to install but not free to run. The command-line tool itself is free and open-source, so downloading it costs nothing, but every task it performs calls a Claude model, and that usage is what you pay for. You can cover it with a paid Claude Pro or Max plan, with pay-per-token API credits, or with one of several genuine free workarounds, and which model answers by default now depends on your plan: Claude Sonnet 5 on Pro, Claude Opus 5 on Max and the API. So the honest answer to “is Claude Code free or paid” is “both, depending on how you run it.” This guide […]

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 […]

On June 30, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, the newest version of its balanced mid tier model and the most agentic Sonnet the company has ever shipped. It is the direct successor to Sonnet 4.6, and it landed with one clear pitch, which was near Opus 4.8 quality at a fraction of the cost. The headline is not a benchmark. It is the price. Sonnet 5 launches with introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, cheaper than Opus 4.8, cheaper than OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, and cheaper than Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro. For teams running agents at scale, where the same job can burn […]

If Claude AI is not responding for you right now, you are far from alone. On June 23, 2026, outage reports for Claude peaked above 7,000 in the United States on Downdetector, and Anthropic later confirmed an “elevated error rate” across its models. That single incident was widely described as the tenth Claude disruption in just over three weeks, so a Claude outage is no longer a rare event you can shrug off. This guide shows you how to tell whether Claude AI is down for everyone or just for you, why Claude keeps going offline in 2026, and exactly what to do to keep working when it does. We […]

You can learn Claude from zero to seriously useful in about a week of evenings, and you can do it without paying a cent. Anthropic runs its own free training portal, Anthropic Academy, where courses like Claude Code in Action (around 10 hours) and Claude Code 101 come with a free completion certificate you can put straight on LinkedIn. Add freeCodeCamp’s 12-hour video course and Frontend Masters’ free track, and the hard part is no longer access. It is knowing the order to learn things in. This guide gives you that order. It starts with Claude the chat app at claude.ai, because most beginners should talk to Claude before they […]

Le Chaton Fat is a fake AI model, and that is the whole point. For about a week in June 2026, AI Twitter and Reddit were flooded with launch graphics, leaked benchmarks, and breathless threads about a new Mistral frontier model called Le Chaton Fat. The name mashes French and English together for “the fat kitten.” It had 30 trillion parameters, scored higher than every rival on charts that looked just real enough, and ran at a claimed 1,000 meows per second. None of it exists. There are no weights, no API, and no product page. This article explains what Le Chaton Fat actually is, where the joke came from, […]

Andrej Karpathy is one of the most influential figures in modern artificial intelligence, a founding member of OpenAI, the former director of AI and Autopilot Vision at Tesla, and the founder of the AI-education startup Eureka Labs. In May 2026 he made headlines by joining rival lab Anthropic, the maker of Claude, to work on the pre-training team behind its frontier models. Along the way he coined the term “vibe coding,” wrote the widely cited essay “Software 2.0,” and built some of the most-watched AI courses on the internet. This guide covers who Andrej Karpathy is, his full career timeline from OpenAI to Tesla and back, why his move to […]

Claude Mythos is Anthropic’s most powerful AI model ever built. Here’s everything we know about the leaked model, its capabilities, the Capybara codename, and when you can use it.

Anthropic pulled Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide after a US government order on June 12, 2026. Here’s what the error means, who’s affected, and how to switch models.

On June 9, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first model in a brand new top tier the company calls the Mythos class. Seven weeks later it still sits at number one on Arena’s text leaderboard, the largest human-preference board in AI, with 16,056 votes behind a 1507.6 rating. What changed since launch is the competition inside Anthropic’s own lineup. Claude Opus 5 arrived on July 24 at half the token price, and on most agentic and coding work it now matches or beats Fable 5. This article covers what Fable 5 is, how the Mythos class works, the full benchmark picture, the safeguard system, pricing, and the 18-day […]