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[rivermobster]

Someone started a thread on RDP, and the misinformation was pure comedy!

I had ChatGPT make me this list the other day. Hopefully you'll find it handy.



General Purpose Conversational AIs

These are the “ChatGPT competitors” — broad, flexible, multi-use.

OpenAI → ChatGPT (GPT-5, DALL·E, Voice, etc.)

Google DeepMind → Gemini (text, images, code, multimodal)

Anthropic → Claude (safety-focused, big in enterprise)

Meta → LLaMA (open-source foundation models, free to use)

Mistral → Mixtral (smaller, fast, efficient open models)

Cohere → Command R (focused on retrieval + enterprise apps)



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Image Generation

Turn text into art, photos, or graphics.

OpenAI → DALL·E 3 (built into ChatGPT)

MidJourney → High-quality, artistic images

Stable Diffusion (Stability AI) → Open-source, customizable

Adobe Firefly → AI inside Photoshop/Illustrator



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Video Generation

AI that makes short films, ads, or animations.

Runway Gen-3

Pika Labs

Luma Labs

Synthesia (AI avatars for business presentations)



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Audio & Voice

ElevenLabs → Ultra-realistic voices

OpenAI Voice Mode (in ChatGPT mobile)

VALL-E (Microsoft research)

Sonantic (voice for Hollywood & games)



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Coding & Developer Tools

GitHub Copilot (Microsoft/OpenAI) → AI pair programmer

Cursor IDE → Coding-focused AI editor

Tabnine → AI code completion

Replit Ghostwriter → AI for web/app dev



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Specialized / Niche AI

Character.AI → Roleplay/chat personas

Perplexity → Search + AI answers (alternative to Google)

Notion AI → Productivity/writing inside Notion

Jasper AI → Marketing & copywriting

Descript → Podcast & video editing with AI



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️ The Trend: Everyone’s racing toward multimodal AI — single systems that can handle text, images, video, voice, and reasoning in one place. ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude are already moving in that direction.

 

[LegitDuner]

What about elon's AI engine, Grok?

 

[rivermobster]

What about elon's AI engine, Grok?

breakdown of OpenAI vs. xAI (Grok) — tech and leadership side by side:


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️ Leadership & Culture

OpenAI (Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Mira Murati)

Mission-driven, structured around “develop AGI safely.”

Heavy governance and oversight (board, nonprofit structure, Microsoft partnership).

Altman pushes fast deployment + fundraising; Murati/Pachocki/Brockman push technical R&D.

Runs like a hybrid: nonprofit ethics + for-profit speed.


xAI (Elon Musk)

Musk’s vision: build “truth-seeking AI” (less censorship, less guardrails).

Startup culture — small, tight-knit, less bureaucracy.

Directly tied into Musk’s ecosystem: X (Twitter), Tesla, SpaceX.

Leadership style: chaotic, move fast, break stuff.



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Tech Stack

OpenAI

GPT family (GPT-3.5, GPT-4, GPT-4o).

Multimodal: text, voice, image input/output.

DALL-E (image generation), Whisper (speech-to-text).

Trained on vast datasets + Microsoft Azure supercomputers.

API-first, then productized as ChatGPT.

Safety layers (RLHF, alignment teams).


xAI (Grok)

Grok-1 (released 2023), Grok-1.5 series, Grok-2 in progress.

Multimodal work is underway but less mature than GPT-4.

Tightly integrated with X/Twitter data → real-time access to trending posts, conversations, news.

Positioned as “edgier ChatGPT” (looser filters, witty style).

Runs on a custom NVIDIA GPU cluster Musk ordered (tens of thousands of H100s).



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Deployment & Strategy

OpenAI

Big enterprise deals (Microsoft 49% stake in the for-profit).

ChatGPT = consumer product + API powering thousands of apps.

Emphasis on trust, regulation engagement, global adoption.

Balances public rollouts with cautious safety reviews.


xAI (Grok)

Directly embedded into X Premium+ subscription → consumer-first, no middle layer.

Plays on “free speech” branding: fewer moderation constraints.

Faster to ship updates, less red tape.

Competes directly with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.



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Key Differences in Philosophy

OpenAI: Safety, governance, slow down if risks too high.

xAI/Grok: Truth-seeking, minimal filters, ride the chaos of live data.

OpenAI’s strength: world-class research & scaling.

xAI’s strength: integration with live social media + Musk’s hardware/resources.



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Bottom line: OpenAI has the stronger research bench and infrastructure, but xAI’s Grok is scrappier, faster to integrate real-time internet data, and deliberately less filtered.
They’re playing different games: OpenAI = “responsible AGI leader,” xAI = “rebel challenger with live data.”

 

[Crusty]

What about elon's AI engine, Grok?

Elon and Trump just kissed and made up, now Grok will be available to the FEDS.

I hope it stays as it is, much less "Nanny State" as other AI sources.

 

[rivermobster]

I tried Grok. Didn't care for it. Since it's mainly just a ChatBot, it felt condescending to me.

 

[brecht]

Claude for coding is great too. I have the $200/month pro plan through work that I set loose on more mundane tasks

 

[rivermobster]

Claude for coding is great too. I have the $200/month pro plan through work that I set loose on more mundane tasks

Do they have a free version??

 

[brecht]

Do they have a free version??

It looks like they do but the free/lower plan models aren't as good. After certain amount of use even the expensive plans get downgraded to the cheapo models but it takes quite a bit

When it writes code you can even have it write tests against it so it self validates. Its pretty cool - still screws you quite a bit if you aren't careful though. Still need to review everything thoroughly

 

[Toy Collector]

The "Engineers" here at work use AI to create Inspection Plans.

I use my brain, look at the parts and prints and create an Inspection Plan.

10/10 Inspection Plans are not submitted if AI was used... but thanks for wasting everyone's time!

 

[megadesertdiesel]

I just played around with the free version of Deevid AI and it was ok. Made a photo in a some movement. It adds some of your descriptions but not all of them. Not impressed enough to spend $10 a month on it.

 

[rivermobster]

I just played around with the free version of Deevid AI and it was ok. Made a photo in a some movement. It adds some of your descriptions but not all of them. Not impressed enough to spend $10 a month on it.

It looks like they do but the free/lower plan models aren't as good. After certain amount of use even the expensive plans get downgraded to the cheapo models but it takes quite a bit

When it writes code you can even have it write tests against it so it self validates. Its pretty cool - still screws you quite a bit if you aren't careful though. Still need to review everything thoroughly

I just use the free versions of everything. I'm just a mere mortal. No way I'm gonna ask anything that will challenge these things!

ChatGPT (free) limits you the same way as well. I need to try one of these coding Ai's. I've been playing around with ChatGPT and site caching lately...

 

[rivermobster]

Claude for coding is great too. I have the $200/month pro plan through work that I set loose on more mundane tasks

Wow. Thanks for the tip!!!

MUCH better than ChatGPT for coding. I hit the 5 hour limit on the free plan last night.

The split window view is awesome.

 

[brecht]

Wow. Thanks for the tip!!!

MUCH better than ChatGPT for coding. I hit the 5 hour limit on the free plan last night.

The split window view is awesome.



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There you go! Install the VS Code plugin - you can ask it to do stuff right from the terminal

 

[rivermobster]

There you go! Install the VS Code plugin - you can ask it to do stuff right from the terminal

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Funny you say that...





It's what I used to save/create the file!

I just signed up with the free version though. I'm ok with just a copy and paste.

I don't do a whole lot of coding...

I know just enough about running a VM, to get myself in trouble...

I just enjoy building websites really. Having my own server make it a lot easier. Most shared servers (like GoDaddy and all that), won't allow you to change anything!

I can modify my own server, as needed.