Question which is the best AI?

[Brie]

which is the best AI? 1 must be better than the others.

thanks in advance

 

[Bot]

which is the best AI? 1 must be better than the others.

thanks in advance

There isn’t a single “best” AI overall – different models are stronger at different things, and they also change very fast with new releases.

How it usually breaks down

• ChatGPT (OpenAI) – Very strong general assistant, great with code, explanations, and writing. Widely integrated into tools and services. Good “all‑rounder”.
• Claude (Anthropic) – Often preferred for long, structured writing (documents, emails, analysis) and for being more “cautious”/aligned. Many people like its style for reasoning tasks.
• Google Gemini – Well integrated with Google services (Drive, Docs, Gmail), decent coding and search‑style tasks. Convenient if you’re deep in the Google ecosystem.
• Local / open‑source models (e.g. Llama variants, Qwen, etc.) – Best for privacy and control (run on your own PC/server), heavily customizable, but require more technical setup and usually a good GPU for top performance.

How to choose “best” for you
Ask yourself:

• Main use? Coding, documents, general chat, research, translating, image work?
• Privacy needs? Cloud AI vs. local models you control.
• Do you care more about raw capability, writing style, or tool integration (Office, Google, IDEs, etc.)?

If you say what you mainly want to use it for (coding, study help, content writing, security research, etc.), I can give a more concrete “for your case, I’d pick X > Y > Z” ranking.

 

[Marko :)]

There's no best one because each is expert in one field. Some might be the best for academic research, some might be best for web search, some might be more creative than the rest. I usually use Perplexity, ChatGPT or Copilot.

Copilot is great for programming, ChatGPT is great for general chat and Perplexity is great for web research.

 

[Divine_Barakah]

which is the best AI? 1 must be better than the others.

thanks in advance

Each module has its uses

I use Perplexity Pro for my academic study for example.

 

[Miraculix]

I use ChatGPT, Perplexity, and LeChat. I usually query all three services and compare the answers.

 

[SeriousHoax]

For general questions most of popular ones like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Grok as wells as the Chinese models like DeepSeek, Qwen are good enough. Our MT bot is powered by Grok 4 for example (unless Jack made any changes since then).
For coding, Claude has the best reputation among programmers and even in my experience it's better than others most of the time.
Gemini and Grok are good for searching because they in my experience always seem check online for latest information while others may give you an outdated info if you don't manually enable the search feature.
So, there is no "1" best AI.

I think in the end, Google will win the AI battle because of their data and resources. Even if the AI bubble burst, Google will lose many billions, but they will be just fine while other AI focused companies could go bankrupt. Perplexity could be the first one among the popular ones.
Edit: I can tell you which one was the worst in my experience, and it was French AI, Le Chat. I asked it one simple question many months ago and it gave me a completely wrong answer. I tried it again this month and this time, I asked it something, but it answered me something else.

 

[RansomwareRemediation]

for me OpenAI

 

[TairikuOkami]

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[Brie]

i guess i should have said free AI.

 

[Brie]

There isn’t a single “best” AI overall – different models are stronger at different things, and they also change very fast with new releases.

How it usually breaks down

• ChatGPT (OpenAI) – Very strong general assistant, great with code, explanations, and writing. Widely integrated into tools and services. Good “all‑rounder”.
• Claude (Anthropic) – Often preferred for long, structured writing (documents, emails, analysis) and for being more “cautious”/aligned. Many people like its style for reasoning tasks.
• Google Gemini – Well integrated with Google services (Drive, Docs, Gmail), decent coding and search‑style tasks. Convenient if you’re deep in the Google ecosystem.
• Local / open‑source models (e.g. Llama variants, Qwen, etc.) – Best for privacy and control (run on your own PC/server), heavily customizable, but require more technical setup and usually a good GPU for top performance.

How to choose “best” for you
Ask yourself:

• Main use? Coding, documents, general chat, research, translating, image work?
• Privacy needs? Cloud AI vs. local models you control.
• Do you care more about raw capability, writing style, or tool integration (Office, Google, IDEs, etc.)?

If you say what you mainly want to use it for (coding, study help, content writing, security research, etc.), I can give a more concrete “for your case, I’d pick X > Y > Z” ranking.

research.

thank you all for the replies.

 

[Bot]

research.

thank you all for the replies.

For free AI and mainly research, I’d focus on tools that are good at web search + citations rather than pure “chat”.

If I had to pick for research only (free versions):

1. Perplexity – One of the best for web/academic style research right now.
   It:
   • Searches the web by default
   • Shows citations and lets you open each source
   • Is good at quick literature overviews and finding starting papers/blogs
2. Gemini or Copilot (roughly tied)
   • Both constantly check the web, so info is usually up‑to‑date
   • Integrate nicely with their ecosystems (Google / Microsoft)
   • Decent at summarising pages, PDFs, and giving you an overview of a topic
3. Free ChatGPT
   • Very good at explaining and organising what you’ve already found
   • Not as strong as Perplexity for digging up fresh sources, but great to refine notes, outline essays, or simplify papers

How to get the best results

• Use Perplexity (or Gemini/Copilot) to find sources + citations.
• Open and skim the original articles/papers yourself (don’t trust the AI summary blindly).
• Use ChatGPT (or any general model) to clarify, summarise, and structure what you read.
• For anything important/academic, always cross‑check key claims in at least 2–3 independent sources.

So for your use case (“research” + “free”), I’d personally start with Perplexity for searching and ChatGPT or Gemini for explanation and writing.

 

[Sorrento]

I usually ask my wife as she knows everything, about all things! (not)

 

[Neno]

Gemini 3 Pro by far... GPAI for science... Claude (Anthropic) for coding I guess.

 

[Divergent]

@Brie

I left you a meta prompt in your other thread for research and it works on any LLM. Just copy paste, hit enter and then ask questions and it will do the heavy lifting for you with any AI. You can save the prompt to a note pad ECT and reuse it as many times as you want.

Post in thread 'copilot AI accuracy?' Question - copilot AI accuracy?

 

[bazang]

which is the best AI? 1 must be better than the others.

thanks in advance

Learn how to maximize your knowledge and ability to leverage AI before asking "What is best AI?".

1. Identify the AI based upon what you want or need from it. Then select one or two - because you can't have them all.
2. Spend time learning how to structure inputs to query and obtain a very good quality result of what you want or need.

Best advice that gives best results.

Otherwise just use CoPilot as a search engine and save yourself from going down the "What is best AI?" rabbit hole.

 

[bazang]

"Free" AI is NFL = Not for Long

Quote from PCMag:

"Free AI is unlikely to remain economically feasible in the long term. The infrastructure, energy, and labor costs behind AI are immense, and while companies may offer free tiers to attract users, sustained access will almost certainly require monetization models such as subscriptions, ads, or enterprise licensing."

Microsoft is currently in the process of scaling back CoPilot for non-paying users. Others as well. Oh, AI will still be available but with limitations that will compel people to pay if they really want or need the full access and features.

Governments always have the option of raising taxes and funding the AI bandwagon. Then AI operators always have Patreon and such, a place to beg for money.

Probably, like all "free" software and service models, paying subscribers will subsidize all the freeloaders. However, I think there's less willingness to adopt that same unrestrained model when it comes to AI.

 

[Divergent]

"Free" AI is NFL = Not for Long

Quote from PCMag:

"Free AI is unlikely to remain economically feasible in the long term. The infrastructure, energy, and labor costs behind AI are immense, and while companies may offer free tiers to attract users, sustained access will almost certainly require monetization models such as subscriptions, ads, or enterprise licensing."

Microsoft is currently in the process of scaling back CoPilot for non-paying users. Others as well. Oh, AI will still be available but with limitations that will compel people to pay if they really want or need the full access and features.

Governments always have the option of raising taxes and funding the AI bandwagon. Then AI operators always have Patreon and such, a place to beg for money.

Probably, like all "free" software and service models, paying subscribers will subsidize all the freeloaders. However, I think there's less willingness to adopt that same unrestrained model when it comes to AI.

Free AI is frustrating when you actually need to use it for a serious task. It will eat up your prompts quickly dancing around the task and your stuck waiting 12 hours to proceed a little more. If you seriously want the very best AI can offer, you need a paid account and to learn how to prompt "communicate" with the AI, it to s really that simple. Using AI as a search engine is just a waste of a valuable resource.

 

[bazang]

Free AI is frustrating when you actually need to use it for a serious task. It will eat up your prompts quickly dancing around the task and your stuck waiting 12 hours to proceed a little more. If you seriously want the very best AI can offer, you need a paid account and to learn how to prompt "communicate" with the AI, it to s really that simple. Using AI as a search engine is just a waste of a valuable resource.

I agree. However, since I know my stuff and I can easily spot errors in the data and informational returns/outputs, I can use it without much of any instruction sets to do "fast-and-convenient" searches that produce analysis that - for the most part - give me what I want and need at the moment.

However, once I need precision-focused accuracy, then free AI begins to fail.

For stuff that has no Tier 1 sources that the AI can access, then the user needs to know their stuff before the first query.

It is far, far more important to know how to use AI than to ask "What is best AI?".

Effective, meaningful knowledge is not to be had via AI and 10 second Google Foo searches. It is a process and takes sustained time and effort. But people are people.

That takes us all straight to the "Solving people problems with software because people are people - the badly infected pimples on The Universe's arse."

 

[Divergent]

I agree. However, since I know my stuff and I can easily spot errors in the data and informational returns/outputs, I can use it without much of any instruction sets to do "fast-and-convenient" searches that produce analysis that - for the most part - give me what I want and need at the moment.

However, once I need precision-focused accuracy, then free AI begins to fail.

For stuff that has no Tier 1 sources that the AI can access, then the user needs to know their stuff before the first query.

It is far, far more important to know how to use AI than to ask "What is best AI?".

Effective, meaningful knowledge is not to be had via AI and 10 second Google Foo searches. It is a process and takes sustained time and effort. But people are people.

That takes us all straight to the "Solving people problems with software because people are people - the badly infected pimples on The Universe's arse."

Exactly as do I and the problem is when you are working a serious task and it hallucinates or simulates something wrongly, you have to stop the flow and burn up more prompts explaining, then it becomes a dance until you are staring at "wait another 12 hours to continue or get a paid account". If I had a dollar for every time this has happened I could have that paid account on those. I do have paid Gemini pro, but I'm not paying more for other AI's. Although I use the free versions as stated they all have their strengths.

 

[Brie]

@Brie

I left you a meta prompt in your other thread for research and it works on any LLM. Just copy paste, hit enter and then ask questions and it will do the heavy lifting for you with any AI. You can save the prompt to a note pad ECT and reuse it as many times as you want.

Post in thread 'copilot AI accuracy?' Question - copilot AI accuracy?

i did. thank you very much. thank you all for the replies.