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Perplexity Computer First Look: 19 Models, One Agent, A$280 a Month
Perplexity's answer engine grew hands. Computer routes your task across 19 models and works in the background.
Nano Banana 2 First Look: Google's Image AI Gets Fast and Free
Pro-grade images at Flash speed, free in the Gemini app, Australia included. The catch list is short.
Notion's Custom Agents go GA — free until May, then you're on the meter
Notion 3.3 turns the workspace into a workforce — autonomous agents wired to Slack, Mail and Calendar. The free trial window has a hard end date.
Pomelli Animate Review: Free AI Brand Video, Live in Australia
Free Veo 3.1 brand video, with Australia on the launch list. After a month of use, here's where Pomelli Animate earns its keep — and where it doesn't.
Google AI Plus First Look: The Cheap Seat at the AI Table
A genuine budget tier from a frontier lab: A$7.99 a month, 400GB of storage, family sharing.
Gemini 3.1 Pro lands — Google's reasoning leap, and what it means for Australians (2026)
Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro more than doubles the reasoning score of Gemini 3 Pro and ships to the Gemini app and NotebookLM — a free upgrade for most Australian users.
Gemini 3.1 Pro First Look: Google Doubles the Reasoning Score That Matters
Google's new flagship doubles the hardest reasoning benchmark going and lands everywhere at once — the app, the API, and NotebookLM.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 lands — same price, better default for Australian users (2026)
Anthropic upgraded Claude's default model to Sonnet 4.6 — better across coding, reasoning and agent work, with no change to the price Australians pay.
Claude Cowork Review: Anthropic's Desktop Agent for People Who Don't Code
Claude Code's agent loop, repointed at your documents, spreadsheets and folders. After a month of hands-on use, here's what Australians actually get.
Perplexity Deep Research goes Opus-class — Claude Opus 4.6 lands for Pro and Max in 2026
Perplexity's Deep Research now runs on a Claude Opus model for the first time — Opus 4.5 from 6 February, upgraded to Opus 4.6 on the 13th. Here's what the Opus-class jump means for Australian Pro and Max subscribers.
Perplexity Model Council First Look: Three Frontier AIs Argue, You Get the Answer
One question, three frontier models, one reconciled answer. The idea is genuinely clever. The price of admission is the problem.
Claude Opus 4.6 First Look: A Million Tokens of Memory, Four Speeds of Thinking
Anthropic's new flagship reads a million tokens at once and lets you choose how hard it thinks. The catch for Australians hasn't moved.