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Comparison of the smartest AI models and tools
Last updated May 15.
This is my comparison of AI models and tools that are considered to be on a similar level as ChatGPT GPT-4, which has been considered the gold standard since it was launched in March of 2023. Only recently have other companies than OpenAI released AI models that have similar levels of intelligence as GPT-4, and GPT-4 has also been further improved.
Short version: With the May 2024 launch of ChatGPT 4o, OpenAI distances itself further from the competition again, after competitors had started getting very close, even gotten better at some important things.
The most important development with ChatGPT 4o is that free users now get to work with the best model instead of the very poor ChatGPT 3.5. They just get lower usage limits than paying customers. They even get to use Custom GPTs!
The most important change so far for paying customers is the increased context window, meaning we can work with longer content, just not as long as Claude and Gemini 1.5. The impressive new multimodal features of Gpt 4o are still not widely available.
Days after OpenAI’s GPT-4o launch, Google made an even bigger leap. The latest Gemini Advanced is much closer to the latest GPT-4 than the older versions were.
| Features | OpenAI ChatGPT-4o (Free & Paid) | Google Gemini Advanced / 1.5 Pro (Paid) | Anthropic Claude 3 Opus (Paid) | Microsoft Copilot (Free) | Meta AI (Free) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Context Window | 128,000 tokens | 1 million tokens | 200,000 tokens | 32,000 tokens | Unclear |
| Input Formats | Text, Speech, Images, Files | Text, Speech, Images, Files | Text, Images, Files | Text, Speech, Images, Files | Text |
| Output Formats | Text, Speech, Images, Files, Links | Text, Speech, Images | Text | Text, Speech, Images | Text, Images |
| Internet Access | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Customization | Custom Instructions, Custom GPTs, GPT Sharing, Memory | No | No | Some GPTs | No |
| Code Execution | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Integrations | No | All things Google including Gmail, Assistant, Android, Docs, and Sheets | No | Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) | Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger |
| Usage Limits | Yes. Low limits for free, higher for paid. | No | Yes | Yes, on characters per message | No |
| Knowledge Cutoff Date | October 2023 | Claims None | August 2023 | December 2023 | December 2022 |
| Conclusion | Still best overall, now with a larger context window, a memory function, and free access even to the best features. | Greatly improved in May with even more impressive things announced for the near future. | Surprisingly good! Writes beautifully! Will hopefully get some customization options soon. The free version is very good too. | Probably still the best of these for tasks that involve searching for information from websites, etc. No need to upgrade to the paid version. | A very impressive new entrant, and easy to use in Meta apps. Fun image generation. |
Context Window: The amount of data the AI model can work with at the same time, you can think of it as short term memory. More is better!
Tokens: AI models break down words into smaller parts called tokens. A rule of thumb is that 1000 tokens is around 750 words.
Internet Access: Some AI models can access data from the Internet for you while others can’t. Microsoft Copilot is the best of the tools in this table at this, but if your main purpose is searching for something online I recommend using Perplexity.AI.
Customization: You can give some AI tools information you always want it to have, for example what you do and what your main interests are.
Code Execution: The ability for an AI tool to use another tool to execute code to do things for you.
Knowledge Cutoff Date: Anything that has happened after this date is unknown to the AI model unless you inform it or it can access the Internet.