Best AI for research
What 141 creators said they actually use for research, from podcasts and YouTube. Not benchmark scores. Updated Oct 18, 2026.
Short answer
For research, most creators use ChatGPT (67), then Claude (48). The model they name most is GPT (6).
Top tools for research
Creators who use or recommend each"It's actually an interesting hack. You can have ChatGPT go and hunt for properties that are in pre-foreclosure and make below-market offers and get sort of a steal on properties."
"I certainly don't want to say something that is inaccurate, but if AI can be trusted, as I was using Claude to research him, I think he went to prison for inappropriate contact."
"A lot of the legwork of this research is being done by my friend Grokbot, and it took me a while to calibrate him... once we'd written a few that we all agreed on, just by showing those to Grokbot, now it understands and can sniff these ..."
"I've not done Google search in the way that we all grew up in literally almost the entire year. It is either ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini. It's over, friends."
"I know I've not looked up one thing on Google. Not one. I've used Gemini, Google's AI, but I've not done Google search in the way that we all grew up in literally almost the entire year."
"I went to Claude Code, I think, and said, 'Look at the Hugging Face repos. Here's a couple that I know about, but find whatever you can,' and I want to build something like this."
"I'm actually very, very close to hooking up Codex to Grok, sucking my timeline out of X, getting all the raw data and the tweets, and then fact-checking everything and creating a new feed for myself."
Models creators name for research
Most creators name the app (like Claude Code), not the model, so these counts are smaller.
Head to head for research
Only creators who compared the two for research.
Best AI for other jobs
How this works: we read every podcast and YouTube transcript we track and note when a creator says they use or recommend an AI tool for a job. Each creator counts once per tool. Sponsored mentions are left out. More about Followed.