Practical, tested guides that match real problems to the AI models and tools that solve them, plus a tracker of new AI models worth knowing about.https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/enhttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/best-ai-tools-for-students/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/best-ai-tools-for-students/The AI tools worth using for studying, research, writing and presentations in 2026, with what's free, what each costs and the age limits schools forget to mention.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/best-ai-tools-for-engineering-students/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/best-ai-tools-for-engineering-students/AI tools that actually help with engineering coursework (maths, code, lab data, papers and reports). What each is good at, what's free and what students get for free.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:50:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/fathom-vs-fireflies/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/fathom-vs-fireflies/Fathom and Fireflies both record and summarize your meetings for free. We compare free plans, prices, languages and privacy so you can pick the right one.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:40:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/otter-vs-fireflies/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/otter-vs-fireflies/Otter.ai and Fireflies.ai both turn meetings into notes, but their free limits, prices and data policies differ a lot. Here's which to pick and why.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:30:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/chatgpt-go-vs-plus-vs-pro/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/chatgpt-go-vs-plus-vs-pro/ChatGPT now has four plans, from free to $500 a month. What Go, Plus and Pro each add, who should pay for which, and when the free plan is enough.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:20:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/is-claude-free/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/is-claude-free/Yes, Claude has a free plan. Here's exactly what it includes, what Pro and Max add, how much they cost, and who can use Claude (including students).Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:10:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/gpt-6-models-explained/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/gpt-6-models-explained/OpenAI's GPT-6 family has four models with confusing names. What each one is for, what it costs, where you can use it, and which one you actually need.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/claude-fable-vs-opus-vs-sonnet/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/claude-fable-vs-opus-vs-sonnet/Anthropic now has four Claude tiers. What Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 are each for, what they cost, and the one most people should pick.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:50:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/kimi-vs-deepseek/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/kimi-vs-deepseek/Two of the strongest open AI models from China, compared on price, context, open weights, access and privacy, with a clear pick for coding, research and budgets.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:40:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/best-open-weight-ai-models/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/blog/best-open-weight-ai-models/The strongest AI models with downloadable weights right now, from Meta's Muse Spark Open to DeepSeek and Mellum, with sizes, licences and what hardware they need.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:30:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/make-a-presentation-with-ai/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/make-a-presentation-with-ai/Go from a blank page to a clean slide deck in under an hour. Write the story with a chatbot, build slides with an AI presentation maker, then fix what AI gets wrong.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/reply-to-emails-faster-with-ai/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/reply-to-emails-faster-with-ai/Use the AI already in Gmail and Outlook, or any chatbot, to draft replies in your own voice, clear your inbox faster and avoid the mistakes that make AI emails obvious.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/research-a-topic-with-ai-and-cite-sources/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/research-a-topic-with-ai-and-cite-sources/Use AI search tools to get up to speed on any topic in an hour, with real links for every claim. A step-by-step method, prompts, and how to catch made-up citations.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/take-meeting-notes-with-ai/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/take-meeting-notes-with-ai/Let an AI note-taker record, transcribe and summarize your calls, then turn the notes into clear action items. Setup, prompts and the privacy checks to do first.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/reviews/chatgpt-review/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/reviews/chatgpt-review/ChatGPT now runs on OpenAI's GPT-6 family, even on the free plan. We compare every plan, what ChatGPT does best, where it falls short and who should pay.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/reviews/claude-review/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/reviews/claude-review/Anthropic refreshed every Claude model this autumn. What each plan gets you, where Claude beats ChatGPT and Gemini, where it falls short, and who should pay.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/reviews/gemini-review/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/reviews/gemini-review/Google's Gemini 4 Argon is now in the Gemini app for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. What each Google AI plan gets you, where Gemini shines, and who should pay.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gpt-6-1-terra/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gpt-6-1-terra/OpenAI's fast, low-cost model for computer use and visual reasoning, released October 26, 2026, at half the price of GPT-6.1 Sol.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/kimi-k3-1-pro/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/kimi-k3-1-pro/Moonshot AI's top model, released October 23, 2026, with a 1M token context window and strong coding results. Moonshot says the full weights will be public by November 4.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/minimax-m3-1-flash/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/minimax-m3-1-flash/MiniMax's fast agent model, released October 19, 2026. Flat pricing of $0.15 in and $0.60 out per million tokens, with output speeds above 200 tokens a second.Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/deepseek-v4-1-flash/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/deepseek-v4-1-flash/DeepSeek's main model, updated October 17, 2026. Open weights, a 1M token context window and very low API prices, which halve again at off-peak hours.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/what-is-an-ai-model/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/what-is-an-ai-model/A plain-English guide to AI models versus AI apps, the kinds of models that launch, and how to tell whether a new release matters to you.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/meta-muse-spark-open/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/meta-muse-spark-open/Meta's open-weight model for coding and agents, released October 15, 2026. Meta calls it the most capable US open-weight model, and it can run on two Mac Studios.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/summarize-long-pdfs-with-ai/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/summarize-long-pdfs-with-ai/A step-by-step way to turn a 60-page report or contract into a reliable one-page summary with AI, plus prompts you can copy and how to check the result.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/grok-voice-3/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/grok-voice-3/xAI's latest voice model for spoken conversations. Same price as Voice 2.0, about $0.08 per minute for speech-to-speech.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gemini-4-argon/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gemini-4-argon/Google's first Gemini 4 model. API price is $2 / $10 per million tokens until November 30, 2026, then $4 / $20.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/best-ai-tools-for-marketing-emails/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/best-ai-tools-for-marketing-emails/Which AI tools are worth using for newsletters and sales emails, how to choose between them, and a prompt that makes any of them sound more like you.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/meta-muse-wonder-1/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/meta-muse-wonder-1/Meta's most capable closed model, launched October 12, 2026, for agents, coding, law, finance and health work. Available through the Meta Model API and Muse Code.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/clean-messy-spreadsheet-data-with-ai/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/clean-messy-spreadsheet-data-with-ai/Remove duplicates, fix inconsistent names and dates, and split columns in minutes using AI, with prompts for ChatGPT, Copilot in Excel and Gemini in Sheets.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/study-with-ai-without-cheating/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/study-with-ai-without-cheating/Use AI as a tutor, not a ghostwriter. Practice quizzes, flashcards and explanations from your own notes, with prompts that make you do the thinking.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/mellum-2-1/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/mellum-2-1/A small, open coding model from JetBrains with 12 billion parameters (2.5 billion active), built to power fast coding agents.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/claude-haiku-5-5/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/claude-haiku-5-5/The fast, low-cost model in Anthropic's Claude 5.5 family. Prompts over 100K tokens cost more ($0.50 / $2.50 per million).Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/turn-a-podcast-into-show-notes-and-clips/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/turn-a-podcast-into-show-notes-and-clips/A repeatable workflow that turns a single recording into show notes, timestamps, a blog post and social clips in under an hour.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/mistral-large-4/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/mistral-large-4/The newest flagship from French AI company Mistral, in public preview. Mistral says open weights will follow.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/nano-banana-2-1/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/nano-banana-2-1/An update to Google's popular image generation and editing model. About $0.03 per 1K image, $0.05 per 2K and $0.11 per 4K in the API.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/automate-a-boring-task-with-an-ai-written-script/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/automate-a-boring-task-with-an-ai-written-script/Use an AI assistant to write and explain a small Python script that renames files, merges spreadsheets or tidies folders, even if you have never coded.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gpt-6-1-sol/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gpt-6-1-sol/OpenAI's mid-priced GPT-6 workhorse, updated to version 6.1 a week after GPT-6 Sol launched. It costs a fifth of GPT-6 Astra.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/claude-sonnet-5-5/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/claude-sonnet-5-5/The balanced middle model of Anthropic's Claude 5.5 family, released September 28, 2026, at half the price of Opus 5.5.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/claude-opus-5-5/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/claude-opus-5-5/Anthropic's most capable everyday Claude model, released September 22, 2026, at a lower price than Opus 5.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gpt-6-luna/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gpt-6-luna/The fast, low-cost tier of OpenAI's GPT-6 family, priced at 10 cents per million input tokens.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/grok-4-7/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/grok-4-7/xAI's current flagship Grok model. Prompts over 200K tokens cost $4 / $12 per million. Knowledge cutoff is May 2026.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gpt-6-astra/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gpt-6-astra/OpenAI's top-end GPT-6 model, added to the API on September 3, 2026. It is the most expensive model in the GPT-6 family.Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/lyria-3-5/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/lyria-3-5/Google's music generation model, generally available in the Gemini API at about $0.08 per song.Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gemini-3-8-flash/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gemini-3-8-flash/Google's latest fast Gemini model. Promotional price runs until December 31, 2026, then rises to $1.50 / $7.50 per million tokens.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/claude-fable-5-1/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/claude-fable-5-1/Anthropic's most powerful generally available model, released September 1, 2026. Built for long agent runs, research and heavy document, spreadsheet and slide work.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/claude-mythos-5-1/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/claude-mythos-5-1/The same model as Claude Fable 5.1, with safeguards set for vetted cybersecurity and life-sciences teams. Not available to the general public.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT