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Ranking AI tools

2026-05-26 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:17 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Tools, apps and tech · mode: Review and recommendation · tags: AI

Ali ranks AI tools in tiers as of May 2026: VoicePal, Perplexity, Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code S tier; NotebookLM, Grok, Wispr Flow and Gemini A tier; OpenClaw and Claude Opus 4.7 B tier.

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The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Tier list of AI tools

  • ★★ Ali rates VoicePal (as heard) S tier among AI tools and says he loves it. — 00:00:02 · VoicePal
  • ★★ Ali rates NotebookLM A tier for a student trying to learn things, but not massively useful beyond that. — 00:00:02
  • ★★ Ali rates the latest Grok models A tier, noting that the rating depends on the specific model and on when you watch. — 00:00:02
  • ★★ Ali calls Wispr Flow really solid and rates it A tier for dictation; it is not S tier because there are lots of competitors. — 00:00:02
  • ★★ Ali rates the latest Gemini model A tier, saying it depends on which model. — 00:00:02
  • ★★ Ali would have rated OpenClaw S tier a few weeks earlier but now rates it B tier, because Claude is slowly building many of the features that made OpenClaw really good. — 00:00:34 · Claude
  • ★★ Ali rates Perplexity S tier: it is a wrapper around other models, and on the expensive plan Perplexity Computer gives access to every other model. — 00:00:34
  • ★★★ Ali rates Claude Opus 4.6 S tier and Claude Opus 4.7 B tier, and Claude Code S tier, calling it really good. — 00:00:34 · Claude

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Central: Claude

Also: Products: Claude Opus 4.6 · Claude Opus 4.7 · Gemini · Grok · NotebookLM · OpenClaw · Perplexity · VoicePal · Wispr Flow

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