Top AIs

This is a continually evolving list of the top AI tools. Give me feedback: Contact Peter Kaminski

Last updated 2025-05-01.

Top Large Language Models (LLMs)

• Claude 3.7 Sonnet - Pete's favorite
• ChatGPT 4o - also good
• Perplexity - many people like the search-based knowledge
• Pi - supposedly the AI with the most "emotional intelligence"
• Copilot - kind of like ChatGPT, but with a Microsoft overlay
• the open (ish) ones; I (Pete) am out of date on the current best, so none listed here

Top Image Generators

Midjourney is one of the hardest to control, but still makes some of the most beautiful images.

DALL-E has been replaced with ChatGPT 4o image generation, which makes good images and is probably the easiest to control.

There are now a number of other great ones, let Pete know which are your favorites and why.

Top Video Generators

There are now a number of good video generators, and the list of the top ones keeps changing. Let Pete know which are your favorites and why.

Top Coding Assistants

• Claude Code - Pete's fave, very powerful
• Windsurf
• Cursor
• OpenHands
• Codex CLI