AI

Helpful jargon

• SOTA model - state of the art model; the most intelligent, advanced, up to date model available in the market (AI companies releases models regularly so you need to keep track)
  • OpenAI GPT o3
  • OpenAI GPT 4.1 (4.5 is available but crazy expensive and only as research preview)
  • Claude Sonnet 3.7
  • Google Gemini 2.5 (Flash and Pro)
    
  • xAI Grok 3
• Open-source models - not for profit, available to download and run on your computer (needs powerful machine). They are usually 1 generation behind SOTA.
  • DeepSeek R1
  • Meta Llama 4
  • Alibaba Qwen 3
• Multimodal - can take images as input
• Thinking model - able to, in multiple times, self-reflect and check response before responding to user. This reduces hallucination and increases accuracy.
  • DeepSeek R1
  • Google Gemini 2.5 Pro (Flash is non-thinking)
  • OpenAI GPT o3
  • Claude Sonnet 3.7 has a "Thinking" mode
• Function-calling/Tool-calling/MCP - it's just another term for giving an AI model access to tools to expand it's capabilities and use (imagine Homo erectus with fire and other tools)

Chat

1. https://chatgpt.com/ - free
2. https://chat.deepseek.com/ - free SOTA
3. https://www.perplexity.ai/ 
4. https://aistudio.google.com/ - free SOTA
5. https://gemini.google.com/app
6. https://claude.ai/new 

Deep Research

1. https://chatgpt.com/
2. https://www.perplexity.ai/ 
3. https://websets.exa.ai/ 
4. https://gemini.google.com/app
   1. Flash 2.0 is free
5. https://claude.ai/new 

Image generation

1. https://sora.chatgpt.com/
2. https://aistudio.google.com/gen-media 

Design

1. https://www.lovart.ai/home
2. https://www.canva.com/ai 
3. https://gamma.app/ 

Prototyping

Take note that multi-modal SOTA models can take a mockup (low or high, doesn't matter) and output code.

https://replit.com/~ 

https://lovable.dev/  https://v0.dev/  https://bolt.new/