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Ask HN: Which "AI" provider would you choose?

1 points by EbNar ↗ HN
I'm looking for an "AI provider" recommendations for physics teaching and academic research. My use case requires mathematical and physics reasoning for paper parsing and PDF synthesis to generate lecture notes, exams, and problem sets. Daily volume averages would be around 100 interactions alongside 2–3 multi-page document processing tasks.

Nice to have: native web search, prompt caching for context efficiency, strict zero-data-retention or training opt-outs, and a budget of around 20ish €/month.

I've been considering Gemini pro because of its integration with NotebooklLM and other perks... I know privacy there would be a bit lacking, though. Would Claude or ChatGPT would be a more sensible choice?

Thanks a lot in advance.

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coder4life
Why not spend $8 this month, sign up for t3.chat (or another aggregator), and try them all out yourself?

Personally I pay for t3.chat, and because I need bigger limits for my day job programming, I have a $20 Claude memebership too

spottedmarley
Claude Max Plan. Set it and forget it. Opus and Fable models inside of claude code is as good as it gets at the moment.
ayushnauti11
Gemini pro is a better choice as you are already using NotebookLM and you might be familiar with tools advantage it provides for teaching and academic research.