The State of AI
This first part might only stay current for a short while. Best Models for use cases - Best model for internet search is Grok but a simple Google Search is still better than this (It is hard to beat 20 years of crawling and indexing by Google) - Best model for extracting text from photos is Gemini Flash (Probably because of 20 years of captcha by google that annotated written letters) - Best model for troubleshooting problems with AI is Claude. (It's thinking text is the least censored and shows the exact sequence of thought of the AI that came to that answer) -Best model for conversations is ChatGPT (this keeps getting better at different types of conversations. More on this in a section below) -Best model for code is Claude (Some might disagree but the publicly available usage stats support this. More on usage stats in a section below) -Best model for thinking about input is Claude (reading an image and thinking about it are different things and Claude generally performs bette
The State of AI Font Font Font Theme Theme Theme Home The State of AI Aug, 2025 This first part might only stay current for a short while. Best Models for use cases - Best model for internet search is Grok but a simple Google Search is still better than this (It is hard to beat 20 years of crawling and indexing by Google) - Best model for extracting text from photos is Gemini Flash (Probably because of 20 years of captcha by google that annotated written letters) - Best model for troubleshooting problems with AI is Claude. (Its thinking text is the least censored and shows the exact sequence o
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