AI_CAPABILITIES
Current AI Landscape
The 5 Tiers at a Glance
1 COMMERCIAL
- ChatGPT · Gemini · Claude
- Midjourney · Runway · ElevenLabs
- Canva · Grammarly · NotebookLM
2 AGENTIC
- Claude Code · Cursor · Devin
- HeyGen · Synthesia · Descript
- Zapier · Make · n8n · Gamma
3 APIS & DEV
- OpenAI · Claude · Vertex AI
- OpenRouter · Groq · Replicate
- FLUX · Whisper · Qwen · Gemma
4 EXPERT
- Unsloth · Axolotl · TRL
- Pinecone · Weaviate · Qdrant
- LangGraph · LlamaIndex · DSPy
5 CS PHD
- Original research
- Theory & optimization
- Systems & compilers
Orchestration & Specialization ---------->
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Tier 1
Major commercial tools
General purpose
Coding
Image
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Other
Tier 2
More agentic use
General purpose
Autonomous agents
Coding
Image
Video
Audio
Other
Tier 3
Light programming, APIs, specialty models
APIs / model access
Light-programming / app scaffolding
Specialty model families
Tier 4
Specialty use, custom systems, expert level
Fine-tuning / post-training
RAG / vector data
Orchestration / agent frameworks
Evals / observability / serving
Tier 5
“Get a CS PhD”
original research
CS PhD / original research
Not really a product tier; this is where the differentiator becomes theory, optimization, systems, compilers, evaluation design, and novel model work rather than choosing a tool.
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