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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
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Tier 1

Major commercial tools

Tier 2

More agentic use

Tier 3

Light programming, APIs, specialty models

Tier 4

Specialty use, custom systems, expert level

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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