One of my fav things to do now for knowledge or research questions is ask 2 LLMs concurrently: knowledge, (re)search.
For now my favorites for simple chatbot are gemini-3.1-pro-preview (very new but it's been extremely consistent for me thus far) and claude-opus-4-6-thinking (no-nonsense), and for search, gpt-5.2-search (thinks long, often gives very complete analysis) and grok-4.1-fast-search (somehow is capable of finding relevant results for niche, specific queries)
One of my fav things to do now for knowledge or research questions is ask 2 LLMs concurrently: knowledge, (re)search.
For now my favorites for simple chatbot are
gemini-3.1-pro-preview(very new but it's been extremely consistent for me thus far) andclaude-opus-4-6-thinking(no-nonsense), and for search,gpt-5.2-search(thinks long, often gives very complete analysis) andgrok-4.1-fast-search(somehow is capable of finding relevant results for niche, specific queries)