Nice idea having a thread for specific recommendations. The current best options are changing fast so I expect this thread to go out of date within a few months. Maybe even a few weeks.
Here’s my preferences currently (Sept 2024): Sonnet 3.5 - best all-round general model
Opus 3 - best at philosophy and complex theoretical discussions. Usually I only resort to this after I try Sonnet and notice that it fell slightly short at some point in the conversation.
o1-preview (strawberry) - does better on structured multi-step reasoning problems than Sonnet 3.5 Overall, I don’t prefer it, but for something like coding, I’d probably want to at least compare its outputs with Sonnet 3.5′s.
You.com and Perplexity AI - they basically act as wrappers around other models, including Sonnet 3.5 and o1-preview. They add in desirable features like web search, and structured prompt chains for reflective reasoning. They could be handy if you’re into that sort of thing. I personally have tried both of them out, and prefer just doing the prompting and web searching manually over the course of an LLM conversation to solve a problem.
Google AI notebook thingy—haven’t tried it yet, but some people say it’s impressive.
Nice idea having a thread for specific recommendations. The current best options are changing fast so I expect this thread to go out of date within a few months. Maybe even a few weeks.
Here’s my preferences currently (Sept 2024):
Sonnet 3.5 - best all-round general model
Opus 3 - best at philosophy and complex theoretical discussions. Usually I only resort to this after I try Sonnet and notice that it fell slightly short at some point in the conversation.
o1-preview (strawberry) - does better on structured multi-step reasoning problems than Sonnet 3.5 Overall, I don’t prefer it, but for something like coding, I’d probably want to at least compare its outputs with Sonnet 3.5′s.
You.com and Perplexity AI - they basically act as wrappers around other models, including Sonnet 3.5 and o1-preview. They add in desirable features like web search, and structured prompt chains for reflective reasoning. They could be handy if you’re into that sort of thing. I personally have tried both of them out, and prefer just doing the prompting and web searching manually over the course of an LLM conversation to solve a problem.
Google AI notebook thingy—haven’t tried it yet, but some people say it’s impressive.