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An up to date comparison of the best AI models

Last updated April 4, 2025.

There are too many developments in AI these days for me to keep an updated table here, so I’ve changed format to a short summary.

Models

The current top models are Claude 3.7, and Gemini 2.5. Grok 3 is also good, as is DeepSeek with Deepthink, Mistral, and ChatGPT’s GPT 4o and 4.5, o1, and o3. All of these are better than anything available Q1 2024.

General Tools

ChatGPT is probably still the best choice for most people who will only pay for one AI tool. It is just not #1 at anything. I still prefer Claude, it finally has web search, and it is always a joy to work with.

The tool with the most unique capabilities is Google’s NotebookLM. If you haven’t tried it yet, you really should! Google in general is on a roll: Even free users can now use both the deep research tool and Gemini 2.5 at gemini.google.com. The biggest WOW moments I’ve had with AI lately were all with the new real-time streaming AI Google offers at aistudio.google.com/live. Try both the video and the screen sharing options. This is the future, and I expect it to roll out in the official Gemini App any day now.

Specialized Tools

Perplexity.ai is still best for search and adding functions all the time. Even free users get 3 daily pro searches and deep research reports! I still use Otter.ai for transcribing and summarizing meetings, but it isn’t improving at the same rate as other tools. I still use Ideogram.ai to generate images (especially when I want text in the images or want to specify exact formats/ratios), but the best image generator now is Google’s Imagen 3 at labs.google/fx/tools/image-fx. I used it to generate this image of the ancient Roman goddess of Artificial Intelligence. All the buzz is about ChatGPT’s 4o Image Generation. It is very easy to work with, I’m just not loving the quality of the images yet.