Grok 4.5 Released: Specs, Benchmarks, Pricing, and Everything New
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…
Is Perplexity AI Free? Yes, but the Free Plan Gets 3 Pro Searches a Day
Yes, Perplexity AI is free. You can use it at perplexity.ai with no credit card, and Perplexity runs a permanent free plan rather than a short trial. The free plan…
Is Grok AI Free? What You Get on the Free Plan in 2026
Yes, Grok AI is free. You can use it at grok.com or inside X with no credit card and no subscription, and xAI has kept a real free tier rather than a short trial…
GLM vs Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek: How Zhipu’s Open Model Compares
GLM vs Claude is the question people search, and the 2026 answer starts with a correction: the GLM worth comparing is no longer GLM-5.2. Z.ai now sells three of…
Is Claude Code Free? Free Ways to Use It in 2026
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…
DeepSeek R2: Release Date, Rumors, and What to Expect
As of 22 October 2026, DeepSeek R2 still has not launched, and DeepSeek has never confirmed a release date or ruled the name out. The company that shook the AI…
GLM 5.5: Release Rumors and What to Expect Next
GLM 5.5 is reportedly expected in August 2026, according to a June 30 report from CGTN on Zhipu AI. That would make it the direct successor to GLM-5.2, the…
Is Claude AI Free? What You Get on the Free Plan in 2026
Yes, Claude AI is free. You can sign up at claude.ai with no credit card and start chatting straight away, and since September 28, 2026 the free plan runs Claude…
GLM Pricing in 2026: API Costs, Coding Plan, and Free Tier Explained
GLM pricing is the headline reason developers keep switching to Zhipu AI’s models. The top-end GLM-5.3 costs just $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per…
Claude Sonnet 5 Just Launched
On June 30, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, at the time the newest version of its balanced mid tier model and the most agentic Sonnet the company has ever…
LongCat-2.0: Meituan’s 1.6 Trillion-Parameter Open-Source Coding Model
Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with a native 1-million-token context window, released on June 30, 2026…
What Is GLM? Every Zhipu AI’s Open Model Explained
GLM is the family of large language models built by Zhipu AI, the Chinese lab now trading as Z.ai. If you typed “what is GLM” expecting the statistics term or the…
What Is Open Source AI? A Clear 2026 Guide
Most AI models people call “open source” are not actually open source. They are open-weight, a narrower thing, and the gap between the two decides what you can…
Seedance 2.5 Explained: ByteDance’s 30-Second AI Video Model and the New 4K Seedance 2.0
ByteDance just announced Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates a full 30-second clip in a single pass with no stitching, breaking a limit that has held…
Sakana Fugu: The New AI Model That Orchestrates Other AI Models
On June 22, 2026, Tokyo-based Sakana AI launched Sakana Fugu, and it works unlike almost any model you’ve used. Instead of trying to be the smartest single brain in…
Seed 2.1 Pro Review: ByteDance’s Model, Price and Arena Rank
On 22 June 2026, ByteDance’s Seed 2.1 Pro Preview scored 1539 on Code Arena: Frontend, landing at #8 in the world and drawing level with Claude Opus 4.6. A day…
Best Open Source AI Models in 2026, Ranked and Compared
The best open source AI models changed hands again in September. Xiaomi published the weights for MiMo-V2.6-Pro on September 21, 2026 under a plain MIT license, and…
Who Is Demis Hassabis? DeepMind Co-Founder Bio, Net Worth & Family
Demis Hassabis is the co-founder and Chair of Google DeepMind, the Chief Scientist of Alphabet, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry. He ran DeepMind as CEO from…
Projects Are Coming to Fello AI 6.6.0
If you use AI for more than the occasional one-off question, your work has a way of scattering — a draft in one chat, the research for it in another, your notes…
GLM 5.2: Zhipu’s 1M-Context Open-Source Model Explained
Update, September 25, 2026: GLM 5.2 is now a legacy checkpoint. The GLM Coding Plan no longer serves it and routes plan requests for it to GLM 5.3. On the…
Kimi K2.7 Code Review: Moonshot AI’s 1T Open-Weight Coding Model
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7 Code on June 12, 2026, and it is one of the largest open-weight coding models you can download right now, though it has since been…
Rio 3.5 Open 397B: A City Government Just Shipped a Frontier AI Model
The city government of Rio de Janeiro just released a frontier-class open AI model. It is built to go head to head with the best open systems on the planet. Rio 3.5…
Nex-N2-Pro: The Free Open-Source Model That Goes Toe-to-Toe With GPT-5.5
A Chinese AI lab just released a free model that scores 80.8 on SWE-Bench Verified and 75.3 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, putting it in the same league as GPT-5.5 and…
Grok vs ChatGPT: Which AI Chatbot Is Actually Better in 2026?
Update, October 12, 2026: Both chatbots now serve the new generation. According to Grok’s release notes, Grok 4.7 has powered Expert mode on grok.com since October…
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra With 550B parameters Just Released
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…
Microsoft Just Launched Its Own MAI Models
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…
MiniMax M3 Is Here With Frontier Coding, 1M Context, and Native Multimodality
On June 1, 2026, MiniMax officially released M3, the Shanghai lab’s next flagship language model, and it shipped exactly as promised. The model that spent weeks as…
Everything You Need to Know About Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8
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.
Baidu’s ERNIE 5.1 Just Released
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…
SubQ: A New LLM with a 12 Million Token Context That Rivals Claude & ChatGPT
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…
