NeoChat Blog

Use cases

The best AI tools for students, how to use them for studying, research and essays without breaking academic rules, and free options and discounts.

AI basics

What an AI hallucination is, why ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini invent facts, real examples of the risk, and practical ways to reduce and catch errors.

Prompting

How to write AI image prompts: a reusable formula, 15 examples by style, and a template that turns any chatbot into an image prompt generator.

AI basics

What tokens are in AI models like ChatGPT, how many words a token is, how context windows and API prices use tokens, and how to use fewer of them.

Chatbots

What an all-in-one AI platform is, how it compares with paying for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini separately, and what to check before you sign up.

Chatbots

Which AI chatbot is best for writing, research, coding or everyday questions? We compare ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Grok and DeepSeek.

Use cases

The best AI coding tools compared: GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, ChatGPT, Gemini and free options, plus best practices for using them safely.

Use cases

The best AI tools for writing emails in Gmail and Outlook, how they compare, and prompts for replies, follow-ups and difficult messages that still sound like you.

Use cases

The best AI writing assistants for articles, emails, fiction and editing: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grammarly, Sudowrite, Jasper and more, with how to choose.

Use cases

Which AI tools help most with writing a novel or nonfiction book, a workflow for outlining, drafting and editing, and the rules for publishing AI-assisted books.

Image & video

The best AI image generators compared: ChatGPT, Gemini, Midjourney, Ideogram, Adobe Firefly, Flux and Stable Diffusion, with free options and who each suits.

Image & video

The best AI video generators compared: Google Veo, Kling, Runway, Pika, Luma and avatar tools, with free options, prices and what each is good for.

Chatbots

How to chat with a PDF in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other tools, what file sizes they handle, and how to get accurate answers from long documents.

Chatbots

Looking for an alternative to ChatGPT? Here are nine assistants, free and paid, with what each does better than ChatGPT and who should switch.

Use cases

How companies use ChatGPT, what ChatGPT Business and Enterprise include, data privacy, practical use cases by team, and a step-by-step rollout plan.

Prompting

Forty ChatGPT prompts for writing, work, study, coding, research and everyday life, plus a simple formula for adapting any prompt to your task.

Comparisons

Claude vs ChatGPT compared on writing, coding, long documents, images, voice, privacy and price, with a clear recommendation for each type of user.

Comparisons

DeepSeek vs ChatGPT compared on reasoning, coding, features, privacy and cost, including when DeepSeek's free chat is enough and when it is not.

AI basics

How ChatGPT detectors such as GPTZero and Turnitin work, how accurate they are, why they flag human writing, and what students and teachers should do instead.

Comparisons

Gemini vs ChatGPT compared on everyday answers, Google Workspace integration, long files, images, video and price, with advice for each type of user.

Comparisons

Grok vs ChatGPT compared on real-time information, tone, writing, coding, images and price, and which users each assistant suits better.

AI basics

How ChatGPT turns your message into an answer: tokens, the GPT model, training, reasoning, web search, memory and the safety layer, explained without jargon.

Prompting

A practical method for writing good AI prompts: the five parts of a prompt, before-and-after examples, techniques for complex tasks and common mistakes.

Prompting

How to use AI to turn an image into a text prompt with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Midjourney's describe command, and how to refine the result.

Chatbots

ChatGPT Plus costs $20 a month in the US. Here is what you get over the free and Go plans, when Pro makes sense, and when Plus is not worth paying for.

Comparisons

A practical comparison of the major large language models in 2026: strengths, context size, price, openness and which tasks each model family handles best.

Chatbots

The best open-source alternatives to ChatGPT: which open models to use, apps that run them on your computer, and the hardware you need.

Comparisons

Perplexity vs ChatGPT compared on research, sources, writing, file work and price, with a simple rule for when to use each.

Image & video

How text-to-image AI turns words into pictures, the difference between diffusion and autoregressive models, the main tools, limits and copyright questions.

AI basics

What an LLM is, how it is trained, how it generates text, what it can and cannot do, and how models like GPT, Claude and Gemini differ.

AI

A look at the AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic, comparing their capabilities, performance, and practical uses.

Updates

Introducing a major NeoChat update with new models, a refreshed interface, and expanded image generation capabilities.