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ai-toolsAnthropic shipped Opus 4.7 in April, ran Code w/ Claude SF in mid-May, and Haiku 4.5 stays the cheap-and-fast tier. Here is the current lineup and pricing.
ai-toolsPer cited pricing pages, GCP's always-free e2-micro is the most durable free option; Azure's 750-hour B1s covers year one; AWS shifted to a $200 credit model.
ai-toolsPer cited reviews, DataCamp wins for data-skills practice, Coursera Plus for university certificates, Pluralsight for IT/cloud labs, Udemy Personal for breadth.
ai-toolsCited pricing pages map the three $5-$12/month VPS providers to different solo-dev needs: Linode for stability, DigitalOcean for tooling, Vultr for regions.
ai-toolsThree frameworks, three jobs. LangChain orchestrates agents, LlamaIndex owns retrieval, DSPy compiles prompts. Pick by the role you need, not by GitHub stars.
ai-toolsThree paths to Claude with different cost and integration tradeoffs. Anthropic direct is cheapest per token; Bedrock and Vertex make sense when the cloud is set.
ai-toolsPick Copilot Studio when Microsoft 365 + Azure are the enterprise default and IT governance is mandatory. Skip for cost-sensitive consumer apps.
ai-toolsPromptfoo for pre-deploy eval, Helicone for production logging, LangSmith if you're on LangChain. Most teams need two of three, not all three.
ai-toolsApple Intelligence rolled out to Indian iPhones in localised English. Hindi, Tamil, and Bengali are not supported. Compatible models, setup, and the language gap.
ai-toolsChatGPT Go is free for users and GitHub Copilot is free for verified students in 2026. Most engineering students should pay ₹0; Claude Pro only if writing-heavy.
ai-toolsAnthropic shipped Claude Design (17 April) + 9 creative-tool connectors (28 April). What designers and PMs should try first, and which tier each requires.
ai-toolsClaude Opus 4.7 brings a 1M-token context window to Claude Code on Pro and Max tiers. devs running multi-repo refactors: test on a real codebase, not a benchmark.
ai-toolsCohere wins for enterprise RAG, multilingual beyond Hindi, and on-premise. OpenAI and Anthropic still beat on benchmarks and ergonomics. Honest 2026 read.
ai-toolsCursor 2.0, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot all run Anthropic's latest Sonnet line. The real choice for devs is workflow integration and INR billing.
ai-toolsDeepSeek V4 launched 24 April 2026 with open weights. For most devs the closed API stays cheaper. The math, GPU honesty, and when self-host pays.
ai-toolsDSPy when prompt quality is the bottleneck and you have eval data; LangChain when integration breadth and orchestration matter most. The decision in detail.
ai-toolsOpenAI's GPT-5.5 became the default model on 23 April 2026 globally. ChatGPT Plus + Go users (including the regional Go-tier promotion) get it. Here is what changed.
ai-toolsSonnet 4.5 for code quality, GPT-5.5 for OpenAI-stack agents, Gemini 2.5 Pro for 1M context. The developer API call for 2026.
ai-toolsThree indigenous-LLM efforts now matter in India: Sarvam, BharatGen, Krutrim. Pick by Indic-language load and openness, not English benchmarks.
ai-toolsLangChain for general LLM apps; LlamaIndex when RAG over private corpora is the load-bearing problem. Both interoperate. The decision in detail for dev teams.
ai-toolsLlama 4 is the open-weight default. For dev teams, the self-host vs API math depends on volume, sovereignty, and which variant you need.
ai-toolsMistral runs a split lineup: Apache-licensed open weights for self-hosting plus a paid API for frontier work. Devs pick by latency, sovereignty, cost.
ai-toolsThree AI subscriptions, one budget. Notion AI for in-workspace integration, ChatGPT Plus for research, Claude Pro for long-form. Pick by where writing actually happens.
ai-toolsBlackwell-class GPUs are renting on global clouds in 2026. Where to find them, how INR billing compares, and what to test first.
ai-toolsPinecone, Weaviate, and Qdrant cover most production RAG choices for dev teams in 2026. Pick by where the data lives and who pays the operational cost.
ai-toolsThree browser IDEs, three different jobs. Replit for AI-built prototypes, StackBlitz for fast frontend, CodeSandbox for VS Code parity. Pick by workflow, not benchmarks.
ai-toolsvLLM for throughput-default; TGI for Hugging Face shops; SGLang for structured output. Pick by inference workload shape, not raw benchmarks.
ai-toolsWhat Grok 4.3 and Grok 4.20 do well for dev teams after the Code Fast 1 retirement, where they lose, and the X-platform integration nobody else can match.
ai-toolsFor most students, ChatGPT Go covers it — and it's free for users right now. The full call on Claude, Gemini, and when ₹1,950 is actually ₹0.
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