🧭 AI Lineup
ChatGPT
by OpenAI
The tool that started the conversation, and still one of the best for almost anything you ask it to do.
Free + PaidChatbotMultimodal
The details
- Context Window
- 128,000 tokens — roughly an entire book's worth of conversation at once
- Cost
- Free tier available · Paid plans for more usage.
- Open Source?
- No — proprietary (OpenAI keeps this to themselves)
- Input / Output
- TextImages inVoiceImage creationFiles
Best for
- General writing & editing
- Coding help
- Creating images (DALL·E)
- Voice conversations
- Explaining concepts
Kevin’s take
“The one everyone's heard of. An excellent all-rounder. The free tier is enough to get started — I used it for a year before I paid for anything.”
— Kevin, formerly of IT Support
Privacy snapshot
Use With CautionPrivacy risk: Medium
General-purpose AI assistant by OpenAI. Text generation, conversation, code help, image generation, and more.
See what ChatGPT does with your data →Related reading
From the AI Glossary
- ChatbotAny AI tool you interact with through a conversation-style interface — you type something, it types back. ChatGPT is a chatbot. So is Claude, Gemini, and Grok. The word has been around much longer than modern AI — early chatbots followed simple rules and were mostly terrible. Today's chatbots are powered by large language models, which makes them vastly more capable.
- OpenAIThe company behind ChatGPT, and one of the most influential names in AI. It started as a research lab and became a household word almost overnight when ChatGPT launched in late 2022. It builds the GPT family of models and has a close, much-discussed relationship with Microsoft. When people picture "an AI company," OpenAI is often the one they have in mind.
Knowing the tool is just the start.
We teach non-tech people how to actually use AI — what to ask, how to ask it, and what to do with the answers. Tutorials, prompts, plain English. All of it.
Show Me How This Works →Start free. Cancel anytime. No judgment, ever.