AI

LLMs

The Best

Free with 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)

• Meta Llama

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

• Cerebras (API) – lightning fast

Coding

Visual Studio Code (VS Code: free open source) forked to include AI:

• Cursor AI (free trial, then $20 / month) it's incredible, and I paid for October! there are alternatives:

• Pear AI free trial, then either pay for premium LLMs

• 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: Midjourney, Adobe, Gemini

• Speech & voice cloning: Eleven Labs

Devices

• Apple Intelligence: iPhone, Mac

• Amazon Alexa: Claude

• Google Pixel 9 phone

News

Weekly podcasts

• AI for Humans also on YouTube

• Last Week in AI

AI Timeline

Feature

• Oprah: AI and the Future of Us