March 22, 2026

Your Daily AI App Update: Smarter Search, Personalized Help, and a New Claude

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Perplexity got smarter search, Gemini expanded personalized help, and Claude launched a new, more capable version.

Perplexity

Perplexity can now smartly pick the best images and videos for your search questions.

You can also choose to turn off certain media types or pick exactly what you want to see in your search results.

Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

Gemini

Gemini can now give you personalized shopping ideas, tech help, and travel plans.

This 'Personal Intelligence' feature is now free for users in the U.S.

Get shopping recommendations, tech support, and travel itineraries tailored to you.

Claude

Claude now has a new, smarter version called Opus 4.5 that's better at things like deep research and working with documents.

You can now use Claude in more places like Excel, Chrome, and on your desktop.

Our newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, is available today. It’s intelligent, efficient, and the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use.

Grok

Grok is an AI assistant built by xAI.

Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X.

Claude Code

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the new default model in Claude Code. Run /model to switch models

We’re introducing several upgrades to Claude Code : a native VS Code extension, version 2.0 of our terminal interface, and checkpoints for autonomous operation.

We’re introducing a native VS Code extension in beta that brings Claude Code directly into your IDE.

DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V3.2: Official successor to V3.2-Exp. Now live on App, Web & API.

DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: Pushing the boundaries of reasoning capabilities. API-only for now.

Introduces a new massive agent training data synthesis method covering 1,800+ environments & 85k+ complex instructions.

ChatGPT

How OpenAI uses chain-of-thought monitoring to study misalignment in internal coding agents—analyzing real-world deployments to detect risks and strengthen AI safety safeguards.

OpenAI Codex

Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools

Cursor

Composer 2 is now available in Cursor: frontier-level coding performance with strong results on challenging coding tasks.

Standard: $0.50/M input, $2.50/M output tokens

Fast (default): $1.50/M input, $7.50/M output tokens