{"id":1067,"date":"2026-04-02T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eccser.org\/seamypath\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:39:43","slug":"popular-ai-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eccser.org\/seamypath\/2026\/04\/02\/popular-ai-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular AI Models"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th><strong>AI Model \/ Tool<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Developer<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Type of AI<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>What It Does<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Public Access<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>ChatGPT (GPT-4\/5)<\/strong><\/td><td>OpenAI<\/td><td>Generative AI (NLP, multimodal)<\/td><td>Generates text, answers questions, coding, tutoring<\/td><td>Free + paid versions<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Google Gemini<\/strong><\/td><td>Google DeepMind<\/td><td>Multimodal AI<\/td><td>Text, images, coding, reasoning<\/td><td>Free + paid (Gemini Advanced)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Claude (Claude 3\/4)<\/strong><\/td><td>Anthropic<\/td><td>Generative AI (NLP)<\/td><td>Writing, analysis, long-document reasoning<\/td><td>Free + paid<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Microsoft Copilot<\/strong><\/td><td>Microsoft (OpenAI-powered)<\/td><td>Generative AI<\/td><td>Integrated AI in Word, Excel, web search<\/td><td>Free + paid<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Meta AI (LLaMA-based)<\/strong><\/td><td>Meta<\/td><td>Large Language Model<\/td><td>Chat, reasoning, open-source AI models<\/td><td>Free (some open-source)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Perplexity AI<\/strong><\/td><td>Perplexity<\/td><td>AI search + NLP<\/td><td>AI-powered search with citations<\/td><td>Free + paid<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>DALL\u00b7E<\/strong><\/td><td>OpenAI<\/td><td>Generative AI (image)<\/td><td>Creates images from text prompts<\/td><td>Integrated in ChatGPT<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Midjourney<\/strong><\/td><td>Midjourney Inc.<\/td><td>Generative AI (image)<\/td><td>High-quality artistic image generation<\/td><td>Paid (Discord-based)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Stable Diffusion<\/strong><\/td><td>Stability AI<\/td><td>Generative AI (image)<\/td><td>Open-source image generation<\/td><td>Free + open-source<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Runway ML<\/strong><\/td><td>Runway<\/td><td>Generative AI (video)<\/td><td>AI video creation and editing<\/td><td>Free + paid<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Synthesia<\/strong><\/td><td>Synthesia<\/td><td>Generative AI (video\/avatar)<\/td><td>AI avatars for presentations<\/td><td>Paid<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>GrammarlyGO<\/strong><\/td><td>Grammarly<\/td><td>NLP + Generative AI<\/td><td>Writing assistance, rewriting, tone adjustment<\/td><td>Free + paid<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Notion AI<\/strong><\/td><td>Notion<\/td><td>Generative AI<\/td><td>Writing, summarizing, note-taking<\/td><td>Paid add-on<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Otter.ai<\/strong><\/td><td>Otter<\/td><td>Speech AI<\/td><td>Transcription and meeting notes<\/td><td>Free + paid<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>GitHub Copilot<\/strong><\/td><td>Microsoft\/GitHub<\/td><td>Code AI (LLM-based)<\/td><td>Code generation and suggestions<\/td><td>Paid (student free plans)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Model \/ Tool Developer Type of AI What It Does Public Access ChatGPT (GPT-4\/5) OpenAI Generative AI (NLP, multimodal) Generates text, answers questions, coding, tutoring Free + paid versions Google Gemini Google DeepMind Multimodal AI Text, images, coding, reasoning Free + paid (Gemini Advanced) Claude (Claude 3\/4) Anthropic Generative AI (NLP) Writing, analysis, long-document 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