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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro: 2026 model comparison
Every few weeks, a new model comes out, and every time the same questions arise: should I switch? what changed what to pay for?
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Prompting in 2026: ChatGPT, Claude, image generation and work assignments
Most people use AI as a search engine: type a short query, skim the answer and close. For reference it works. For everything that is really important - no.
Claude Fable 5: When to Use the Powerful Model and Which Effort Level to Choose
A comprehensive breakdown of Claude Fable 5 and the effort parameter: behavioral reasoning signals, level availability matrix (low to xhigh), per-turn cost calculations, and practical API/Claude Code setups.
Google Gemini Pro (Model with Infinite Context)
The flagship working model from Google DeepMind featuring a record context window of over 2 million tokens. Capable of analyzing entire books, lengthy videos, and massive codebases in a single query.
Google AI Studio: Free Gemini API Keys
Official Google sandbox: get free Gemini 2.0/1.5 API keys without a credit card, setup system prompts, and test the 2M token context window. Limits & guide 2026.
Claude rejected a request because of the word “cyber”
A brief observation that Claude refused a task due to the word “cyber”.
Tencent releases Hy4: an open-weight model challenging DeepSeek
Tencent has released Hy4, a multimodal model that scored 75.2 on APEX-Agents in internal tests, ahead of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017. The company plans to publish the model weights.