Tag: LLMs

OpenAI began the broad public rollout of GPT-5.6 on July 9, 2026, two weeks after the model first shipped as a locked-down preview to roughly 20 US-government-vetted organizations. The launch comes after the US Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation completed its review and cleared wider access to the three models in the […]

Muse Spark 1.1 landed on July 9, 2026, and Meta is calling it its strongest model yet for real-world coding and agentic work. The upgrade comes from Meta Superintelligence Labs, the team Meta assembled to close the gap with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, and it arrives with a feature that changes Meta’s whole strategy; a […]

Yes, ChatGPT is free. Anyone can use it at no cost on the web and in the iPhone and Android apps, and the free plan is permanent rather than a short trial. As of 2026 the free tier runs on GPT-5.5 Instant, OpenAI’s fast everyday model, with a cap of roughly 10 messages every 5 […]

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 pivot toward developers, with training done using real Cursor developer session data and benchmarks designed to measure what an AI can actually do inside a real […]

Yes, Perplexity AI is free. You can use it at perplexity.ai with no credit card and no account needed for basic searches, and Perplexity runs a permanent free tier rather than a short trial. The free plan gives you unlimited quick searches with real source citations, which already puts it ahead of a plain chatbot. […]

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. The catch is the ceiling. The free plan caps you at roughly 10 prompts every 2 hours on a lighter model, […]

GLM-5.2 is the top open-weight model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ranking 4th overall while costing a fraction of the closed flagships, and that gap is why the GLM vs Claude question has spread into a much bigger fight. Zhipu AI’s open-weight model costs $1.40 input / $4.40 output per million tokens against Claude […]

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 […]

As of July 2026, DeepSeek R2 still has not launched, and DeepSeek has never confirmed a release date. The company that shook the AI world with R1 in early 2025 spent 2026 shipping something else entirely, the DeepSeek V4 series, while its next dedicated reasoning model stayed locked behind closed doors. Reports point to founder […]

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 open-weight model that shipped on June 13 and immediately became the highest-scoring open-source model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 51. Zhipu […]