How do you try Gemini 4 Argon?
If you subscribe to Google AI Pro or Ultra, you can try Gemini 4 Argon now in the Gemini app and in AI Mode in Search; developers can call it through the paid tier of the Gemini API in Google AI Studio.
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Models and labs
Anthropic, Google, Meta, Apple, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen, open source and local models.
How do you build your own shortlist of AI models and test it?
Pick three or four candidate models, one per role you need (a strong model for hard work, a mid-priced one for daily work, a small one for volume), then run the same ten to twenty of your own tasks through…
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How do you use Muse Wonder?
You can use Muse Wonder in two ways today, through Meta's Model API under the name muse-wonder-1.0 or inside Muse Code, Meta's coding agent.
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How do you try Mistral Large 4?
Mistral Large 4 is available as a public preview through Mistral Studio and the Mistral API, where you select it under the name mistral-large-4.
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What are Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, Meta's new frontier models?
Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full are Meta's most capable AI models, released on October 12, 2026, and built for agents that carry out personal and professional tasks.
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What is Claude Haiku 5.5, and what is a small, cheap model good for?
Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic's new small model, released on October 7, 2026, built for fast, repetitive, high-volume work such as summarizing, sorting and quick lookups.
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What is Claude Sonnet 5.5, and how is it faster and cheaper to run?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic's new mid-tier model, released on September 28, 2026, as a faster and lower-cost partner to Claude Opus 5.5.
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GPT-6 Sol or GPT-6 Luna: which should you choose?
Choose GPT-6 Sol for demanding work such as coding, multi-step agent tasks and professional documents, and GPT-6 Luna for simple, repeated jobs at volume, such as sorting, extracting and summarizing.
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How do you use DeepSeek-V4-Pro for coding?
Call the model deepseek-v4-pro through DeepSeek's API with the OpenAI or Anthropic format, give it the failing test and the code involved, and ask for a small, reviewable change.
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How do you use Qwen3.8-Max?
The simplest way is Qwen Studio, Alibaba's chat site, where Qwen3.8-Max can be picked as a model; developers can call it through Qwen Cloud with the OpenAI Python library.
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How do you run Muse Glimmer locally?
Install a recent build of llama.cpp (b10353 or newer), download Meta's 16.8 GB Q4_K_M file of Muse Glimmer from Hugging Face, and start llama-server with the --jinja option.
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What is Claude Opus 5, and how does it compare with Claude Fable 5?
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's new everyday flagship model, released on July 24, 2026, which the company says comes close to its top model, Claude Fable 5, at half the price.
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How do you use Grok 4.5?
Grok 4.5 is SpaceXAI's new model for coding, agent tasks and office work, and today you reach it through Grok Build, Cursor or the SpaceXAI API under the name grok-4.5.
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GPT-5.6 Luna, Terra or Sol: which should you pick?
Pick Terra as your everyday default, move up to Sol for long, specialized or high-stakes work, and drop down to Luna for short, repetitive jobs where speed and cost matter more than depth.
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Claude Fable 5 or Mythos 5: which should you use?
Unless your organization is a vetted cyber-defense partner or joins one of Anthropic's trusted access programs, you cannot choose Mythos 5, so the real decision is between Claude Fable 5 and the cheaper…
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What are Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, and how do they differ?
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, launched by Anthropic on June 9, 2026, are the same new top-tier AI model offered in two ways.
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What is Claude Opus 4.8, and what is new in it?
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's newest top model, released on May 28, 2026 at the same price as Opus 4.7, with better scores on coding and reasoning tests and a stronger habit of admitting uncertainty about…
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How do you use Gemini 3.5 Flash for fast, cheap tasks?
Call the model gemini-3.5-flash, lower its thinking level to low or minimal for simple jobs, and send work that can wait through the Batch API, which halves the price.
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What is Gemini 3.5 Flash, and why is Google building it around agents?
Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google's newest AI model, launched on May 19, 2026 at Google I/O as the first of the Gemini 3.5 family, and it is now the default model in Google Search's AI Mode and in the Gemini app for…
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When is a fast model better than a reasoning model?
A fast model is the better choice when the task is well defined, the right answer is easy to check, and speed or cost matters, as in classification, extraction, reformatting and short replies.
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How do you try DeepSeek-V4?
The quickest way is DeepSeek's own chat site or app, where the preview is available through Expert Mode and Instant Mode; developers can call deepseek-v4-pro or deepseek-v4-flash through DeepSeek's API using…
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What is Claude Design, and how does it turn a prompt into a prototype?
Claude Design is a new Anthropic Labs tool, launched as a research preview on April 17, 2026, that lets you create designs, clickable prototypes, slide decks and one-pagers by describing them to Claude and…
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What is Claude Opus 4.7, and what is new in it?
Claude Opus 4.7 is Anthropic's new most capable generally available model, released on April 16, 2026, with stronger results than Opus 4.6 on hard coding and long tasks, sharper vision and more literal…
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What is Muse Spark, Meta's first model from its superintelligence lab?
Muse Spark is a new AI model that Meta announced on April 8, 2026, the first from its Meta Superintelligence Labs team and the start of a new "Muse" series that will replace Llama inside Meta AI.
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What is Claude Mythos Preview, and why is Anthropic keeping it for cyber defenders?
Claude Mythos Preview is a new, unreleased Anthropic model that is so good at finding and exploiting software flaws that Anthropic is giving it only to a group of security partners, through an effort called…
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What are OpenClaw and Hermes Agent?
OpenClaw and Hermes Agent are free, open-source personal AI agents that you install yourself and talk to through apps like WhatsApp or Telegram; they can run commands, manage files and carry out tasks on your…
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Should you use GPT-5.4 Thinking or GPT-5.4 Pro?
Use GPT-5.4 Thinking for nearly all serious work, from reports and spreadsheets to coding and research, because it is fast enough, widely available and strong across OpenAI's published tests.
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How do you use Gemini 3.1 Pro for research?
Give Gemini 3.1 Pro a precise research question, ask it to plan before answering, to separate what sources say from its own reasoning, and to cite every factual claim.
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How do you run Qwen3.5 locally?
Install llama.cpp, then run "llama-cli -hf unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_K_M", which downloads a 21 GB compressed copy of Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and opens a chat on your own machine.
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What is Gemini 3.1 Pro, and how much better does it reason than Gemini 3 Pro?
Gemini 3.1 Pro, released by Google in preview on February 19, 2026, is an upgrade of Gemini 3 Pro focused on core reasoning, scoring a verified 77.1% on the ARC-AGI-2 puzzle test, more than double its…
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What is Claude Sonnet 4.6, and what do free users get from it?
Claude Sonnet 4.6, released by Anthropic on February 17, 2026, is its new mid-sized model, now the default for Free and Pro users, with better coding, much stronger computer use and a 1-million-token context…
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What is Qwen3.5, and how does Alibaba's open model see, think and act?
Qwen3.5, released by Alibaba on February 16, 2026, is a new family of AI models whose first open-weight member, Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, reads text, images and video, supports 201 languages and is free to download…
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What is Claude Opus 4.6, and what are agent teams and adaptive thinking?
Claude Opus 4.6, released by Anthropic on February 5, 2026, is its most capable model, better at planning, long coding tasks, code review and everyday office work, and the first Opus model with a…
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Why is Apple building its next AI models on Google's Gemini?
On January 12, 2026, Apple and Google announced a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple's own AI models, the Apple Foundation Models, will start from Google's Gemini models and use…
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What is Claude Cowork, and how does it let Claude work in your files?
Cowork is a new mode in the Claude desktop app for Mac, released by Anthropic as a research preview on January 12, 2026, that lets Claude work directly in a folder you choose on your computer, reading,…
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What is Gemini 3 Flash, and why is it now the default model in Gemini?
Gemini 3 Flash is Google's new fast, low-cost model in the Gemini 3 family, released on December 17, 2025, which brings much of Gemini 3 Pro's reasoning to quick, everyday use.
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How do you use Mistral Large 3 as an open-weight model?
You can call Mistral Large 3 through a hosted API like any other model, or download its weights from Hugging Face and serve it yourself with vLLM on a single server with eight data-center GPUs.
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Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro or GPT-5.1: which should you use for work?
All three are strong enough for everyday professional work, and their published benchmark scores are close enough that the right choice depends on your tasks, your tools and your budget more than on a…
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What is Mistral 3, and why does an open-weight family from 3B to 675B parameters matter?
Mistral 3 is a new family of open-weight AI models released by the French company Mistral AI on December 2, 2025, made of one large model, Mistral Large 3, and nine small Ministral 3 models in three sizes.
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What is DeepSeek-V3.2, and how does sparse attention make long inputs cheaper?
DeepSeek-V3.2 is an open-weight AI model that the Chinese lab DeepSeek released on December 1, 2025, together with a high-reasoning variant called DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale.
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How do you get the most from Gemini 3 in the Gemini app?
Choose "Thinking" in the Gemini app's model menu to use Gemini 3 Pro, then give it material to work on, such as photos, long documents or a clear brief for a small app in Canvas, instead of short trivia…
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What is Claude Opus 4.5, and what changes with its lower price and effort control?
Claude Opus 4.5 is the model Anthropic released on November 24, 2025, as its most capable for coding, AI agents and computer use, and also for everyday work with documents, spreadsheets and slides.
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What is Nano Banana Pro, and why is Google's new image model better at text?
Nano Banana Pro, officially Gemini 3 Pro Image, is the image generation and editing model Google released on November 20, 2025, built on its Gemini 3 Pro language model.
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What is Gemini 3 Pro, and what is new in Google's latest model?
Gemini 3 Pro is the first model of Google's Gemini 3 generation, released in preview on November 18, 2025, and Google describes it as its most intelligent model for reasoning, understanding images and video,…
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What is Claude Haiku 4.5, and when is a small, fast model the right choice?
Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic's new small model, released on October 15, 2025, which Anthropic says codes about as well as Claude Sonnet 4 did five months ago, while costing a third as much and running over…
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What is Claude Sonnet 4.5, and what is the Claude Agent SDK?
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic's new AI model, released on September 29, 2025, aimed at coding, computer use and long-running agents; Anthropic reports it can stay on a complex task for more than 30 hours and…
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Which ChatGPT plan should you pick: Free, Go, Plus or Pro?
Start with Free and upgrade only when you keep hitting a specific limit.
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What is Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, the model nicknamed Nano Banana?
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is Google's new image generation and editing model, released on August 26, 2025, which had been tested anonymously under the nickname "nano-banana." It edits photos from plain-language…
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What is DeepSeek-V3.1, and what does a hybrid thinking model mean?
DeepSeek-V3.1, released on August 21, 2025, is one model that can either answer directly or think step by step first, replacing DeepSeek's separate chat and reasoning models with two modes of the same system.
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How do you choose between GPT-5's Auto, Fast and Thinking modes?
Leave GPT-5 on Auto for everyday requests, switch to Fast when you want a quick reply to a simple question, and pick Thinking when the task has several steps, a right answer you can check, or a cost if it…
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What is Claude Opus 4.1, and what changed from Opus 4?
Claude Opus 4.1 is an upgrade to Anthropic's top model, Claude Opus 4, released on August 5, 2025, with better results on real-world coding, agentic tasks and detailed research, including 74.5% on the…
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What are Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy, and what is new about them?
Grok 4 is xAI's new flagship AI model, released on July 9, 2025, trained with large-scale reinforcement learning to reason and to use tools such as web search and a code interpreter on its own.
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What is Magistral, Mistral's first reasoning model?
Magistral is Mistral AI's first family of reasoning models, released on June 10, 2025, in two versions, an open 24-billion-parameter Magistral Small that anyone can download and a more capable Magistral…
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What are Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, and what can they do?
Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 are Anthropic's new AI models, released on May 22, 2025, built for coding, reasoning and long multi-step tasks; Opus 4 is the most powerful and can keep working on a task for…
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How do you use Mistral models when your data must stay in Europe?
Choose the access route first and the model second. Mistral AI is a French company working under the GDPR, its API terms say customer data is not used for training, and its open-weight and enterprise models…
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How do you try Qwen3 and switch its thinking on and off?
You can try Qwen3 in the browser at chat.qwen.ai or download it to run locally with tools such as Ollama or LM Studio.
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What is Mistral Medium 3, and why does a mid-size model matter to businesses?
Mistral Medium 3 is a mid-size language model that the French company Mistral AI released on May 7, 2025, for businesses.
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What is Qwen3, and what does "hybrid thinking" mean?
Qwen3 is a family of eight open-weight language models from Alibaba's Qwen team, released on April 28–29, 2025, ranging from a tiny 0.6-billion-parameter model to a 235-billion-parameter flagship.
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Can you run Llama 4 Scout at home, and what does its licence allow?
Only on unusually large home hardware: Llama 4 Scout has 109 billion parameters in total, so even a 4-bit version needs roughly 55 GB of memory for the weights alone, which points to a high-memory Mac or a…
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What are Llama 4 Scout and Maverick, and what is a mixture-of-experts model?
Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick are Meta's newest open-weight AI models, released on April 5, 2025, and the first Llama models that understand images as well as text from the ground up and that use a…
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How do you use Gemini 2.5 Pro for long documents?
Upload the whole PDF, count its tokens to confirm it fits in the one-million-token window, and ask questions that require page numbers and short quotes for every claim.
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What is Gemini 2.5 Pro, and what makes it a "thinking" model?
Gemini 2.5 Pro, released by Google on March 25, 2025, in an experimental version, is the first of a new Gemini generation in which every model reasons through a problem before answering.
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How do reasoning models decide how long to think?
The model itself decides, token by token, when it has reasoned enough, so a hard question usually gets a longer hidden chain of thought than an easy one.
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How do you use Grok 3's Think and DeepSearch modes?
Press Think when a question needs careful step-by-step work, such as math, logic, code or a plan with constraints, and press DeepSearch when the answer depends on current information from the web and X that…
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What are Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code, and what can they do?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet, released by Anthropic on February 24, 2025, is a single model that can either reply right away or think through a problem step by step first, with that thinking shown to you.
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What is Grok 3, and what do its Think and DeepSearch modes do?
Grok 3 is the newest family of AI models from Elon Musk's company xAI, unveiled in a livestream on the evening of February 17, 2025, and trained with roughly ten times the computing power of Grok 2.
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How do you choose between GPT-4o, o1 and o3-mini?
Use GPT-4o for everyday writing, conversation, images, files and quick answers; use o3-mini when a math, science or coding problem needs careful step-by-step work and speed matters; use o1 for hard problems…
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What is Qwen2.5-Max, and how does Alibaba's model compare with DeepSeek-V3?
Qwen2.5-Max is a large mixture-of-experts language model from Alibaba's Qwen team, released at the start of the Lunar New Year (January 28–29, 2025), trained on more than 20 trillion tokens and offered…
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How do you try DeepSeek-R1, and what about privacy?
You can try DeepSeek-R1 for free by turning on the DeepThink option at chat.deepseek.com or in the DeepSeek app, call it through the API as deepseek-reasoner, or download its open weights.
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Why did DeepSeek's app top the charts and send Nvidia's shares tumbling?
On Monday, January 27, 2025, DeepSeek's free AI assistant became the most-downloaded free app in the US App Store, and worries that cheaper AI training could reduce demand for chips sent Nvidia's stock down…
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What is DeepSeek-R1?
DeepSeek-R1 is a reasoning model released on 20 January 2025 by the Chinese lab DeepSeek, which reports performance on par with OpenAI's o1 in math, code and reasoning.
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What is DeepSeek-V3, and how was it trained for so little?
DeepSeek-V3 is a large open-weights language model released on December 26, 2024, by the Chinese company DeepSeek, with 671 billion parameters of which only 37 billion work on each token.
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How do you try Gemini 2.0 Flash in Google AI Studio?
Sign in to Google AI Studio with a Google account, pick Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental in the model menu, and start typing, uploading images or turning on tools such as Google Search.
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Is ChatGPT Pro worth $200 a month?
For most people, no. ChatGPT Plus at $20 a month already includes the full o1 model, and Pro's extra $180 only pays off if you hit usage limits often, rely on o1 pro mode for hard technical work, or make…
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What is Gemini 2.0, and what does Google mean by the "agentic era"?
Gemini 2.0 is Google's new generation of AI models, introduced on December 11, 2024, starting with an experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash that is faster than Gemini 1.5 Pro, can create images and speech as well as…
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What can Apple Intelligence do now that iOS 18.1 is out?
On October 28, 2024, Apple released iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1, the free updates that bring the first Apple Intelligence features to recent iPhones, iPads and Macs.
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How do you try Alibaba's Qwen 2.5 models?
The easiest way is Ollama, a free app that downloads and runs a Qwen 2.5 model on your own computer with one command; the files and code examples are also on Hugging Face.
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What is Claude's computer use, and how can an AI operate a computer?
Computer use is a new public beta feature, announced by Anthropic on October 22, 2024, that lets an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet operate a computer the way a person does, by reading screenshots, moving the…
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What is Llama 3.2, and how can an AI model see images or run on a phone?
Llama 3.2 is a set of openly downloadable AI models that Meta released on September 25, 2024, at its Connect conference.
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When should you use o1 instead of GPT-4o?
Use o1 when a task has one hard chain of logic to get right, such as a multi-step math problem, a tricky bug or a plan with many constraints.
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How do you use Grok on X, and what is it good for?
Grok is the chatbot from Elon Musk's company xAI, built into X: with a Premium or Premium+ subscription you open the Grok tab in an updated X app and type, choosing Grok-2 or the faster Grok-2 mini.
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How do you use Mistral's Le Chat?
Le Chat is Mistral AI's chat assistant at chat.mistral.ai: you sign in, choose a Mistral model such as the new Mistral Large 2, and chat as you would in ChatGPT, in English, French and many other languages.
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What is Llama 3.1 405B, and what does a free frontier-sized model change?
Llama 3.1 is a family of AI models Meta released on July 23, 2024, led by a 405-billion-parameter model that Meta says can compete with GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, plus upgraded 8B and 70B versions.
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What is Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and what are Artifacts?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is Anthropic's newest AI model, released on June 20, 2024, which Anthropic says beats its previous top model, Claude 3 Opus, on most tests while running twice as fast and costing the same as…
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What is Apple Intelligence, and how will it work on your iPhone?
Apple Intelligence is Apple's new set of AI features for iPhone, iPad and Mac, announced at WWDC on June 10, 2024, that can rewrite and summarize text, create images and emoji, and give Siri a better grasp of…
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How do you choose an AI model for a task in mid-2024?
Start from the task, not the brand. Decide what matters most, such as quality, cost, privacy, how much text it must read at once, or which tools it needs, then shortlist two or three models and run the same…
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What are Copilot+ PCs, and what can AI do on your own computer?
Copilot+ PCs are a new class of Windows laptops, announced by Microsoft on May 20, 2024, built with a dedicated AI chip called an NPU so that features like Recall, Cocreator and live caption translation run…
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What are small language models, and when are they enough?
Small language models are AI text models with a few billion parameters instead of hundreds of billions, light enough to run on a laptop and, in tests, on a phone.
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What did Google announce at I/O 2024, and what changes for you?
At its I/O conference on May 14, 2024, Google announced AI Overviews, AI-written summaries at the top of Search results, for everyone in the US; a faster, cheaper model called Gemini 1.5 Flash; a larger…
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Can you use Llama, Mistral or Gemma in a commercial product?
Yes, all three allow commercial use, but on different terms: Mistral's open models use the permissive Apache 2.0 licence, while Meta's Llama 3 licence and Google's Gemma Terms of Use add conditions such as…
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What is Llama 3, and what changes for Meta AI?
Llama 3 is Meta's new family of downloadable language models, released on April 18, 2024, in two sizes, 8 billion and 70 billion parameters, trained on more than 15 trillion tokens of text.
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xAI just released the Grok-1 weights. What does that mean, and can you use them?
On March 17, 2024, xAI published the weights and architecture of Grok-1, the 314-billion-parameter language model behind its Grok chatbot, under the Apache 2.0 license, which allows free commercial use.
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How do Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet and Haiku differ?
The three Claude 3 models share the same basic abilities, including reading images and a 200,000-token context window, but trade intelligence against speed and price.
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What is Claude 3, and how do you choose between Opus, Sonnet and Haiku?
Claude 3 is Anthropic's new family of AI models, announced on March 4, 2024, in three sizes: Haiku, the fastest and cheapest, Sonnet, the balanced middle option that now powers free claude.ai, and Opus, the…
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What are Mistral Large and Le Chat, and why does Microsoft's deal with Mistral matter?
On February 26, 2024, the French company Mistral AI released Mistral Large, its most capable language model, which it ranks second only to GPT-4 among models available through an API, along with a smaller…
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What is a one-million-token context window good for?
A one-million-token context window lets a model read roughly 700,000 words, an hour of video or a large codebase in a single request, so you can ask questions across a whole body of material at once.
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What is Gemma, Google's family of open models, and who is it for?
Gemma is a family of lightweight open models that Google released on February 21, 2024, built from the same research and technology as its Gemini models.
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How does Gemini Advanced compare with ChatGPT Plus?
Both cost about $20 a month and give you each company's top model, Gemini Ultra 1.0 or GPT-4, but they bundle different things.
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What is Gemini 1.5 Pro, and what can a one-million-token context window do?
Gemini 1.5 Pro is Google's new mid-size AI model, announced on February 15, 2024, that performs at about the level of its largest model, 1.0 Ultra, while using less computing power.
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Why is Google Bard now called Gemini, and what is Gemini Advanced?
On February 8, 2024, Google renamed its Bard chatbot to Gemini, after the family of AI models that powers it, and launched Gemini Advanced, a paid tier that runs on its largest model, Ultra 1.0.
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How does Bard with Gemini Pro compare with ChatGPT?
Since December 6, Google's free Bard runs on a tuned version of Gemini Pro, which Google says beats GPT-3.5, the model behind free ChatGPT, on six of eight standard benchmarks.
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What is Mixtral 8x7B, and how does a mixture of experts work?
Mixtral 8x7B is a language model released on December 11, 2023, by the Paris start-up Mistral AI, with open weights that anyone can download and use under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.
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What is Google Gemini?
Gemini is Google DeepMind's new family of AI models, announced on December 6, 2023, in three sizes: Ultra, Pro and Nano.
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What's new in Claude 2.1, and what can its 200,000-token window do?
Claude 2.1 is a new version of Anthropic's AI model, released on November 21, 2023, that can read up to 200,000 tokens at once, about 150,000 words or more than 500 pages, twice as much as Claude 2.0.
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What is Grok, Elon Musk's new chatbot, and how is it different?
Grok is a chatbot from Elon Musk's AI company xAI, unveiled on Saturday, November 4, 2023, and powered by a new language model called Grok-1.
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How do you choose between an open-weight model and a hosted one?
Choose a hosted model such as ChatGPT or Claude when you want the strongest answers with no setup, and an open-weight model such as Llama 2 or Mistral 7B when your data must stay on your own machines, you…
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What is Mistral 7B, and how can a small model compete with bigger ones?
Mistral 7B is the first language model from the French startup Mistral AI, released on September 27, 2023: a 7.3-billion-parameter model that anyone can download and use without restrictions under the Apache…
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What is Code Llama, and can a free model really help you write code?
Code Llama is a family of programming models that Meta released on August 24, 2023, built by training Llama 2 further on code, in sizes of 7, 13 and 34 billion parameters, free for research and commercial use.
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What is Qwen-7B, and why did Alibaba give its model away?
Qwen-7B is a 7-billion-parameter language model from Alibaba Cloud, released on August 3, 2023 together with a chat version, Qwen-7B-Chat, as downloadable weights that researchers and companies can use for…
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What is Llama 2, and why does an openly available model matter?
Llama 2 is a family of large language models released by Meta on July 18, 2023, in sizes of 7, 13 and 70 billion parameters, with chat-tuned versions, free for research and commercial use.
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What is Claude 2, and how can you use it on claude.ai?
Claude 2 is Anthropic's new AI model, released on July 11, 2023, with better scores in coding, math and reasoning than Claude 1.3, room for about 75,000 words in a single prompt, and longer answers.
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What does Claude's new 100K context window mean, and what can it read at once?
Anthropic has raised the amount of text Claude can take in at once from about 9,000 tokens to 100,000 tokens, roughly 75,000 words, or a whole short novel.
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What is PaLM 2, the model Google announced at I/O, and what does it power?
PaLM 2 is Google's new large language model, announced at Google I/O on 10 May 2023, with stronger skills in more than 100 languages, in reasoning and math, and in writing code.
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What is Tongyi Qianwen, Alibaba's new AI model, and what will it do?
Tongyi Qianwen is a large language model unveiled by Alibaba Cloud on 11 April 2023 that writes and converses in Chinese and English, and that Alibaba plans to build into all of its apps, starting with the…
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How do ChatGPT, Bing Chat and Bard compare?
ChatGPT is a general-purpose assistant that writes from what it learned in training, Bing Chat searches the web first and links to its sources, and Google's Bard is a newer experiment that offers several…
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What is Google Bard, and how can you try it now that it is opening up?
Bard is Google's conversational AI, built on a lightweight version of its LaMDA language model, and on 21 March 2023 Google began letting people in the US and the UK in through a waitlist at bard.google.com.
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What is Microsoft 365 Copilot, and what will it do in Word, Excel and Outlook?
Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI assistant, announced on 16 March 2023, that will sit inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams and draft, summarize and analyze using GPT-4 combined with your own work…
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What is Claude, Anthropic's new AI assistant?
Claude is a conversational AI assistant from Anthropic, a company founded by former OpenAI researchers, opened to businesses on March 14, 2023 through a chat interface and an API.
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What is LLaMA, Meta's new language model for researchers?
LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) is a family of four language models, from 7 billion to 65 billion parameters, that Meta released on February 24, 2023 for research use only.
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What is the new Bing with chat, and how does it work?
The new Bing is Microsoft's search engine rebuilt around a next-generation OpenAI language model, announced on February 7, 2023, that can chat with you, write complete answers from web results and cite its…
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What is Google Bard, and how is it different from ChatGPT?
Bard is an experimental conversational AI service that Google announced on February 6, 2023, built on its LaMDA language model and able to draw on information from the web for up-to-date answers.
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Should you use ChatGPT or text-davinci-003 in the Playground?
For everyday questions, drafting and back-and-forth conversation, the free ChatGPT preview is the easier choice.
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What is Constitutional AI, and how can an AI learn from a list of principles?
Constitutional AI is a training method that Anthropic described in a paper on 15 December 2022, in which an AI assistant learns to avoid harmful answers by critiquing and rewriting its own responses against a…
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What changed in Stable Diffusion 2.0?
Stable Diffusion 2.0, released by Stability AI on November 24, 2022, swaps in a new text encoder called OpenCLIP, trains on a dataset filtered to remove adult images, and adds a 768x768 model, a 4x upscaler,…
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How much does it cost to use GPT-3?
GPT-3 is billed by the token, a piece of a word, and you pay for both the text you send and the text it writes back.
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What is Character.AI, and how do its chatbot characters work?
Character.AI is a new website, opened to the public as a beta on 16 September 2022, where you can chat with AI characters and create your own by giving each one a name, a greeting and a description.
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What is a model card, and how do you read one?
A model card is a short document published with an AI model that explains what it is for, how it was trained, how it was tested and where it falls short.
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What does it mean for a language model to be open?
A language model is "open" to the degree that outsiders can get its weights (the learned numbers that make up the model), its code and the details of how it was trained, and use them under a license that…
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What is Google's Imagen, and how does it turn text into pictures?
Imagen is a text-to-image system that Google Research unveiled on 23 May 2022, which turns a written description into a photorealistic picture by pairing a large language model with a chain of diffusion image…
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What is Google's PaLM, and why does a 540-billion-parameter model matter?
PaLM, short for Pathways Language Model, is a new Google language model with 540 billion parameters, trained on 6,144 of Google's TPU chips with a new system called Pathways.
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What is the difference between GPT-3's Ada, Babbage, Curie and Davinci?
Ada, Babbage, Curie and Davinci are four GPT-3 models on OpenAI's API that trade speed and price against capability.
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What is Google's LaMDA, and how is it different from other chatbots?
LaMDA, short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, is an experimental Google language model unveiled on 18 May 2021 at Google I/O that was trained on dialogue so it can hold open-ended conversations…
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What are tokens, and why do language models read text in pieces?
Tokens are the small pieces of text a language model actually reads and writes: whole common words, parts of rarer words, punctuation marks and spaces.
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How is Google using BERT to understand your searches?
Google announced on 25 October 2019 that its search engine now uses BERT, a language model built on the Transformer design, to read each query as a whole sentence, so small words like "to," "for" and "no" are…
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