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Update — June 8, 2026: Refreshed pricing, rollout status, and benchmarks for June. Grok 4.3 has now reached standard SuperGrok and X Premium+ seats, not just the $300 Heavy tier. For the deep dive, read our Grok 4.3 review. ChatGPT now runs on GPT-5.5, launched on April 23, 2026, while Grok is powered by Grok 4.3 (released April 30, 2026), the successor to Grok 4.20 from xAI. Both chatbots have evolved significantly over the past year, and picking between them is no longer as simple as “ChatGPT is the default.” Grok has grown from 1.9% US market share to 17.8% in just 12 months, while ChatGPT still dominates with over […]

On June 4, 2026, NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Ultra, a fully open 550 billion parameter reasoning model built specifically for long running agents. According to benchmark platform Artificial Analysis, it is now the most capable open model to come out of a US lab, scoring 48 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. That puts it well ahead of every other open American model and lands it in what Artificial Analysis calls the most attractive quadrant on its chart, combining high intelligence with fast output speed. Microsoft entered the in-house model race days earlier with its MAI lineup at Build. What makes Nemotron 3 Ultra different is the design goal. NVIDIA […]

On June 2, 2026, at its Build developer conference, Microsoft announced a family of seven in-house AI models under the MAI brand, the most concrete step yet in the company’s plan to stop being just the best distributor of someone else’s frontier models. The lineup spans reasoning, coding, image generation, voice, and transcription, and it was unveiled during CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote alongside new agents, silicon, and a repositioning of Windows itself. The centerpiece is MAI-Thinking-1, Microsoft’s first reasoning model. It is a 35 billion active parameter Mixture of Experts model that Microsoft says matches Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench Pro and narrowly beat Claude Sonnet 4.6 in blind human […]

Claude Opus 4.8 takes the #1 spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 61.4, beating GPT-5.5. Full benchmarks, pricing, and what’s new.

You do not have to pay $20/month for Perplexity Pro. Verified students and teachers pay just $10/month for the Education Pro plan (a flat 50% discount), any verified student gets one free month that stacks all the way to 24 free months through referrals, and every US government worker with a .gov email gets a full free year. Those are the three routes that actually work right now, and none of them involve a sketchy promo-code generator. This guide breaks down every confirmed way to get Perplexity Pro for free or cheap, exactly what each route costs, and who qualifies for it. It also tells you which famous “free year” […]

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.

On May 5, 2026, Subquadratic launched SubQ, the first frontier LLM built on a fully subquadratic sparse-attention architecture, with a 12 million token context window and bold cost claims.

The number one reason ChatGPT cancellations “don’t work” has nothing to do with OpenAI’s website. It’s that ChatGPT runs on three separate billing systems, and most people try to cancel in the wrong one. If you signed up on iPhone, Apple bills you. If you signed up on Android, Google bills you. If you signed up on chatgpt.com, OpenAI bills you. Cancel in the wrong place and your subscription keeps charging, whether it’s Plus at $20/month or Pro at $200/month. This guide covers every cancellation path that exists in 2026, across every paid tier. The same iPhone, Android, and web steps work for Plus, Pro, and Go, since they all […]

Claude hit #1 on the App Store in early 2026, pushing ChatGPT out of the top spot for the first time. The catalyst was Anthropic publicly refusing the Pentagon’s demand to deploy its models for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, after which the government labelled Anthropic a “supply chain risk.” The backlash flipped the script: users migrated to Claude out of sympathy for Anthropic’s stance, and the company reported over 60% growth in free users and more than doubled paid subscribers in just a few months. For more on how the two companies’ philosophies shape what you actually see in the chat window, we broke down how Claude and ChatGPT […]

OpenAI dropped GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026, and it is now the most capable ChatGPT model the company ships. GPT-5.5 scores 93.6% on GPQA Diamond, 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, and 78.7% on OSWorld-Verified, all ahead of GPT-5.4, while its Pro variant pushes BrowseComp to 90.1% and FrontierMath Tier 4 to 39.6%. In under nine months, OpenAI has shipped six distinct versions of GPT-5, each with its own identity and price point. If you have lost track of what separates GPT-5.0 from GPT-5.5, this guide covers every model in the family, release dates, context windows, benchmarks, pricing, and the key differences that actually matter. We also look ahead at what ChatGPT […]