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❓ Which AI Model Is Best in 2025?
In 2025, the landscape of AI tools is richer and more competitive than ever.
Today, let's dive deeper into choosing between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Deepseek, Copilot and Perplexity, outlining clearly what each excels at and where it falls short.
ChatGPT: The Best Overall for Everyday Use
✅ Best for:
Everyday questions: Always available, high rate limits. Great for random, everyday inquiries.
Voice conversations: Highly interactive and convenient during commutes or walks.
Live Camera & Vision: Can analyze live images through your phone camera, helpful for interactive learning or problem-solving.
Math and financial analysis: Excels in handling data analysis and precise calculations (when using the data analysis tool).
Deep research: Outstanding in conducting detailed market analysis or exploring technical subjects comprehensively.
❌ Not ideal for:
Creative writing: Suggestions can feel mechanical or generic if not using a personalized version (i.e. fine-tuned models or GPTs)
Claude: The Vibe Writer and Vibe Coder’s Choice
✅ Best for:
Writing and editing: Quickly adapts to your writing style when given examples, effectively turning voice notes into refined drafts.
Coding: Used by AI coding platforms like Bolt and Cursor, excellent for engaging and efficient "vibe coding."
❌ Not ideal for:
Multimodal capabilities: Lacks image, voice, and video generation tools.
Gemini: Superior for Video and Extensive Context
✅ Best for:
AI Video Creation: Exceptional when integrated with tools like Veo, ideal for creative and personal video projects.
Image Creation: Gemini's Imagen 3 delivers coherent, artistic visuals often surpassing competitors.
Long-context processing: Capable of handling extensive documents, including entire books and lengthy videos simultaneously.
High integration with Google Workspace: Gemini is progressively being integrated inside Google’s ecosystema (i.e. Sheets, Docs, etc) and this makes a big difference if you’re already a Google Workspace user
❌ Not ideal for:
Personality-driven interactions: Responses can be overly concise and impersonal, diminishing user experience for casual interactions or nuanced editing tasks.
Grok: Free, Up-to-Date, and Unhinged
✅ Best for:
Free Access: Exceptional at deep research, coding, reasoning, and image generation without subscription fees.
Real-time insights: Unique access to real-time data from platforms like X (Twitter).
Voice Interactions: Offers distinctive and often amusing voice modes.
❌ Not ideal for:
Professional writing editing: Default sarcastic and witty tone can undermine serious content.
Perplexity: Quick Research and Trip Planning
✅Best for:
Fast and concise research: Provides accurate summaries with clear source links, ideal as a Google Search replacement.
Travel and local recommendations: Efficient at creating detailed travel itineraries and local activity suggestions.
❌ Not ideal for:
In-depth research: Other models like ChatGPT and Grok provide deeper, more comprehensive research capabilities.
DeepSeek: Transparent Reasoning
✅ Best for:
Chain-of-thought transparency: Provides raw reasoning steps, which can be insightful or unintentionally hilarious.
Entertainment value: Its attempt to reason through jokes, especially dad jokes, makes it a fun tool to explore with family or friends.
❌ Not ideal for:
Privacy-sensitive tasks: Due to its transparency and raw output style, DeepSeek may not be suited for professional or privacy-conscious use cases.
Microsoft Copilot: Best for Microsoft 365 Power Users
✅ Best for:
Office integration: Deeply embedded in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook—streamlines workflows for existing Microsoft users.
Enterprise productivity: Ideal for corporate environments where security, document generation, and automation are key.
❌ Not ideal for:
General AI versatility: Less capable outside the Microsoft stack compared to Claude or ChatGPT.
Creative tasks: Limited in generating content beyond business or productivity contexts.
Our Recommended AI Model
If you're investing $20/month, Claude offers the greatest return for writers and coders, excelling in tasks that dominate daily usage. For another $20, complement Claude with ChatGPT, leveraging its outstanding deep research and conversational versatility.
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