Practical, tested guides that match real problems to the AI models and tools that solve them, plus a tracker of new AI models worth knowing about.https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/enhttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/what-is-an-ai-model/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/what-is-an-ai-model/A plain-English guide to AI models versus AI apps, the kinds of models that launch, and how to tell whether a new release matters to you.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/summarize-long-pdfs-with-ai/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/summarize-long-pdfs-with-ai/A step-by-step way to turn a 60-page report or contract into a reliable one-page summary with AI, plus prompts you can copy and how to check the result.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/grok-voice-3/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/grok-voice-3/xAI's latest voice model for spoken conversations. Same price as Voice 2.0, about $0.08 per minute for speech-to-speech.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gemini-4-argon/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gemini-4-argon/Google's first Gemini 4 model. API price is $2 / $10 per million tokens until November 30, 2026, then $4 / $20.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/best-ai-tools-for-marketing-emails/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/best-ai-tools-for-marketing-emails/Which AI tools are worth using for newsletters and sales emails, how to choose between them, and a prompt that makes any of them sound more like you.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/clean-messy-spreadsheet-data-with-ai/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/clean-messy-spreadsheet-data-with-ai/Remove duplicates, fix inconsistent names and dates, and split columns in minutes using AI, with prompts for ChatGPT, Copilot in Excel and Gemini in Sheets.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/study-with-ai-without-cheating/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/study-with-ai-without-cheating/Use AI as a tutor, not a ghostwriter. Practice quizzes, flashcards and explanations from your own notes, with prompts that make you do the thinking.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/mellum-2-1/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/mellum-2-1/A small, open coding model from JetBrains with 12 billion parameters (2.5 billion active), built to power fast coding agents.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/claude-haiku-5-5/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/claude-haiku-5-5/The fast, low-cost model in Anthropic's Claude 5.5 family. Prompts over 100K tokens cost more ($0.50 / $2.50 per million).Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/turn-a-podcast-into-show-notes-and-clips/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/turn-a-podcast-into-show-notes-and-clips/A repeatable workflow that turns a single recording into show notes, timestamps, a blog post and social clips in under an hour.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/mistral-large-4/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/mistral-large-4/The newest flagship from French AI company Mistral, in public preview. Mistral says open weights will follow.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/nano-banana-2-1/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/nano-banana-2-1/An update to Google's popular image generation and editing model. About $0.03 per 1K image, $0.05 per 2K and $0.11 per 4K in the API.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/automate-a-boring-task-with-an-ai-written-script/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/use-cases/automate-a-boring-task-with-an-ai-written-script/Use an AI assistant to write and explain a small Python script that renames files, merges spreadsheets or tidies folders, even if you have never coded.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gpt-6-1-sol/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gpt-6-1-sol/OpenAI's mid-priced GPT-6 workhorse, updated to version 6.1 a week after GPT-6 Sol launched. It costs a fifth of GPT-6 Astra.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/claude-sonnet-5-5/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/claude-sonnet-5-5/The balanced middle model of Anthropic's Claude 5.5 family, released September 28, 2026, at half the price of Opus 5.5.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/claude-opus-5-5/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/claude-opus-5-5/Anthropic's most capable everyday Claude model, released September 22, 2026, at a lower price than Opus 5.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gpt-6-luna/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gpt-6-luna/The fast, low-cost tier of OpenAI's GPT-6 family, priced at 10 cents per million input tokens.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/grok-4-7/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/grok-4-7/xAI's current flagship Grok model. Prompts over 200K tokens cost $4 / $12 per million. Knowledge cutoff is May 2026.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gpt-6-astra/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gpt-6-astra/OpenAI's top-end GPT-6 model, added to the API on September 3, 2026. It is the most expensive model in the GPT-6 family.Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/lyria-3-5/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/lyria-3-5/Google's music generation model, generally available in the Gemini API at about $0.08 per song.Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gemini-3-8-flash/https://www.aiwhatsnew.online/models/gemini-3-8-flash/Google's latest fast Gemini model. Promotional price runs until December 31, 2026, then rises to $1.50 / $7.50 per million tokens.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT