AI Tools

Updated April 12, 2025

My daily drivers are Grok, ChatGPT and Claude.

LLMs (text/search)

Grok has a great free plan (no X login needed). It can search X and reddit for sentiment.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has a pretty good free plan.

Claude is the best at coding.

Google’s NotebookLLM is free and awesome, you can upload long PDFs and other resources and ask questions about them.

Google’s Gemini offers a limited number of free Deep Research queries per month. Gemini 2.5 also seems to be able to parse longer documents than ChatGPT.

Pi is built as a conversation partner.

Perplexity is an AI search engine.

Image generation

Ideogram is one of my favs and they have a free plan.

Midjourney now has a web interface, so you don’t have to use Discord.

Meta has a free image generator along with their text generator.

Bing’s image generator is fairly good and it’s also free but you get limited credits for faster generation.

My Fav AI Youtubers

Wes Roth – covers breaking news in AI

Matt Wolfe – AI tool reviews and overall news – he also has an AI news page on his site

AI Explained – in depth technical breakdowns around AI news

Robert Miles – AI safety

Multi-use / Mashup tools

Fredo is a tool you can add to WhatsApp and lets you use Midjourney for free, among other things.

Goblin Tools is a brilliant interface to ChatGPT that lets you break down tasks into smaller chunks and estimate how much time it will take, check the tone of a piece of text, translate a braindump into a list of tasks, and more.