AI

LLMs

The Best

Free with generous limited use (paid options for higher limits)

• OpenAI ChatGPT 4o

  • o1 reasoning model (for paid users: can solve physics problem sets and more!)

• Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet – best at coding

Unlimited Free Use

• Google Gemini – longest input questions / documents (largest context window)

  • Gemini 2.0 Flash

  • Google AI Studio: Stream Realtime

• Meta Llama

  • Ollama – download and run locally offline (private but slower)

• Cerebras (API) – lightning fast

Search + Answer Engine

• Perplexity

• ChatGPT Search

New

• Amazon Nova

AI Leaderboards

• https://artificialanalysis.ai

• https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/

• https://prollm.toqan.ai/leaderboard/coding-assistant

• https://livebench.ai

• https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider-swe-bench

• https://eqbench.com/creative_writing.html

• https://aider.chat/docs/llms.html

• https://lmarena.ai

Coding

• Cursor AI (free trial, then $20 / month) fork of Visual Studio Code (VS Code: free open source)

  • it's incredible, and I've paid for October & November!

• Github CoPilot

• Windsurf Codeium

• VS Code w/ extensions

  • Claude Dev + Continue Dev + Aider + Supermaven video tutorial AICodeKing

Digesting Papers

• Google NotebookLM: Chat with up to 50 documents (even generate a podcast interview!)

Astronomy Papers

• Pathfinder: (Iyer et al. 2024) – ask astronomy papers in NASA ADS

• AstroMLab (Pan et al. 2024) – ask astronomy papers questions using local model AstroLLaMA

Tools

• Image generation: reddit/aiArt (see what folks are using there):
  Free: Flux,  DALL E, Bing , Imagen 3, Grok 2, Leonardo.ai, Pika, Recraft
  Paid: Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Adobe

• Video generation: reddit/aivideo
  Runway, Kling, Minimax, Luma, Sora

• Speech & voice cloning: Eleven Labs

• Music generation: Suno

News

Weekly podcasts / videos

• AI for Humans also on YouTube

• Last Week in AI

• Hard Fork AI

• Kyle Kabasares

Machines of Loving Grace: How AI Could Transform the World for the Better –Dario Amodei (Anthropic)
"The Compressed 21st Century": 100 years of progress in 10

AI Timeline

Interviews

Lex Fridman

• Anthropic: Dario Amodei, Amanda Askell, Chris Olah

• OpenAI: Sam Altman

• Perplexity: Aravind Srinivas

• Cursor team

Oprah: AI and the Future of Us

Devices

• Apple Intelligence: iPhone, Mac

• Amazon Alexa: Claude?

• Google Pixel 9 phone

Robots: Neo 1X, DeepRobotics, Unitree, Tesla, Figure, Boston Dynamics