What AI models/products I use

Last updated on: 01 April, 2026

  • For learning about things, reasoning, making plans, etc.: Claude (paid) is best. Its model Opus 4.6 is way ahead of other models.

  • For quick, trivial answers: Any free model by any company. All the models are good enough.

  • For private AI chat:

  • For YouTube videos summaries: YouTube Premium comes with embedded Gemini. Once you get YT Premium, you see a Gemini button under every video. You can ask it questions only about the content of the video. I often summarise videos to know if they are worth watching.

  • For random questions about random things on the web: While surfing the web, I often come across something that I don't understand: because of language, lack of context, etc. In such a situtation, one can copy-paste the text in an AI model or I can take a screenshot and give it to AI.

    There is an inbuilt feature in the Firefox browser (desktop version) for this. Select a piece of text on any webpage, and it will show you a Gemini button. Click on the button, and a small chat window will open on the side of the webpage. Gemini has context of the whole page; ask it any question about the selected text.

  • For coding, automation:

    • For small automation scripts, any free chat model: Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Grok
    • For building web apps, websites, applications: any frontier tool like Cursor, OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex

  • For image generation: I don't really use image generation that much. But I know Nano Banana in Gemini (paid) is best.