If you’re not ready to shell out ~20€ each month for AI access, your options are limited. There are free tiers of ChatGPT or Claude AI, but the models that power these entry levels are never the most powerful ones. What I wanted for myself: - diverse providers, so I can select whatever’s leading currently diverse providers, so I can select whate... Read more... 18 Jul 2026
Kimi K3, the newest model from Chinese lab Moonshot AI, has been released (blog post). It’s a big model - 2.8T parameters. Artificial Analysis has it at GPT-5.6 Terra/Sol capability level, but it’s also priced that way - making it the most expensive Chinese model: The only reasoning mode currently offered is “max”, with additional reasoning mode... Read more... 18 Jul 2026
OpenAI’s coding & work tool Codex is not tied to OpenAI as a first-party model provider. In particular, it allows OpenRouter to be used - a hub to currently 480 models offered by independent inference providers. These inference providers offer models not found in the OpenAI like OpenAI’s own open-weights models gpt-oss-20b or gpt-oss-120b, or th... Read more... 12 Jul 2026
GPT-5.6 is slated for general (and international) release on July 9. The model family comprises of three sizes: Sol, Terra and Luna. The model card is here. A “select group of trusted partners and organizations” had preview access, including Ethan Mollick, Derya Unutmaz and Peter Gostev. GPT-5.6 is said to “feel” part of the GPT-5 family while t... Read more... 08 Jul 2026
The house style of frontier LLMs still seems rather obnoxious at times, which I particularly noticed with GPT-5.5 in Codex. Anthropics new Fable 5 does best on the Creative Writing EQ-Benchmark (2229.6 score vs 2028.5 with GPT-5.5), but Ethan Mollick calls it “overwrought language” that cannot be prompted away: Peter Gostev confirms limited stee... Read more... 08 Jul 2026