Today’s Top AI Tools You Should Know (U.S. Focus)

🔍 Today’s Top AI Tools You Should Know (U.S. Focus) By Gulam Sibtain | July 2025 1. Grok‑3 (xAI / Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot) Grok‑3 is xAI’s flagship model, released recently with 10× more compute than Grok‑2, excelling on benchmarks like AIME and GPQA for reasoning and STEM tasks — rivaling GPT‑4o. Features like “Big Brain” mode enable step-by-step logic, and DeepSearch scours the web & X for answers. Grok‑3 mini offers faster, affordable performance. Access is available in X Premium+ or SuperGrok plans. 1 2. Mistral Medium 3 & Devstral Mistral AI’s Medium 3 is a high-performance open model—at or above 90% of Claude Sonnet 3.7—and is available via API on Azure, Sagemaker, and Google Vertex. Their Devstral model (Apache-licensed) outperforms models like Gemma 3 on coding benchmarks. These flexible, low-cost tools are gaining traction in 2025. 2 3. Perplexity AI & Comet Browser Perplexity AI offers an AI‑powered search engine that gen...