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Plain-English answers to the everyday AI and tech questions.
Fixes
Claude Code, Codex or Cursor: picking a $20 plan without hitting limits
"What is more worth it, $20 Codex or $20 Claude Code?" and "$200/month for Claude: too expensive or worth it?"
Complete beginner? Where to start with AI this week
"This all sounds cool, but how do I actually use any of it if I'm a complete beginner?"
Tools by problem
Recent launches
- 01
Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo
Alibaba's 7B open-weight image generation + editing model, distilled to 8 steps. Research/eval license.
- 02
Nano Banana 2.1
Google's image generation/editing update: better text rendering and character consistency at about half Nano Banana 2's API price.
- 03
RISE by White Circle
Open-source (Apache-2.0) pipeline for red-teaming text-to-image models' safety filters, meant for authorized testing.
- 04
SupoClip
Open-source AI clipper that turns long videos into short-form clips.
- 05
Kugel 3.5
Text-to-speech model and API from KugelAudio.
- 06
EmbeddingGemma 2
Google's open, lightweight multimodal embedding model for search and RAG.
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