AI Tools and Reviews

Honest reviews and comparisons of AI tools for Canadian businesses across sales, marketing, operations, customer service, and finance.

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AI Tools and Reviews

October 29, 2026

The self-hosted AI model that said no tools, then tried to reach Beijing

A self-hosted AI model can still dial out

byPriya Chen

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AI Tools and Reviews

October 14, 2026

Cursor pricing got cheaper, and the seller behind your seats changed

Cursor pricing now starts at $8, but that tier is Grok only

byPriya Chen

Laptop showing code in a bright office, where a team weighs Muse Wonder pricing against its current model

AI Tools and Reviews

October 12, 2026

Muse Wonder costs the same as Claude Opus 5.5. The stronger model isn’t on sale

Muse Wonder pricing matches Claude Opus 5

byPriya Chen

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AI Tools and Reviews

October 10, 2026

ChatGPT now answers with forms and buttons, so test which of your paid tools it replaces

GPT-6 Intelligent UI lets ChatGPT answer with forms, buttons and charts

byPriya Chen

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AI Tools and Reviews

October 8, 2026

Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna cost the same, so your checking time is the real price

Haiku 5

byPriya Chen

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AI Tools and Reviews

October 7, 2026

Mistral Large 4 Gives Canadian Teams a European Open-Weight Option With Fine Print

Mistral Large 4 launched in public preview on October 6 with a 1 million token

byPriya Chen

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AI Tools and Reviews

October 6, 2026

Reflection AI’s Beam is an open model with an efficiency pitch, but you can’t download it yet

Reflection AI Beam is a US open-weight model under Apache 2

byPriya Chen

AI Tools and Reviews

October 3, 2026

The 48% who took an AI avatar for a person never wondered

Tavus says 48% of testers believed its AI avatar was a real person

byPriya Chen

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AI Tools and Reviews

October 1, 2026

Gemini 4 Argon matches its rivals on price, but only while the introductory rate lasts

Gemini 4 Argon pricing starts at $2 and $10 per million tokens, then doubles

byPriya Chen

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AI Tools and Reviews

September 30, 2026

Meta’s Muse is free in Canada and OpenAI’s dots reaches 4,000 apps, so set the rules first

Meta Muse for small business is free and live in Canada, and OpenAI dots

byPriya Chen

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