5 AI tools nobody is learning now... but will make millionaires by 2026 👀

11 Feb 2026 · 2 min

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In this short video the speaker presents a personal ranking of five AI tools that are useful for business tasks, assigning each a tier from A‑tier to S‑tier. The tools and their highlighted capabilities are: • Gemini – placed in A‑tier for its strong image and video generation models (referred to as “Nano Banana”) and deep research abilities. • Perplexity – assigned B‑tier, praised for quick on‑the‑go research, capable of both shallow (2‑3 min) and deeper (8 min) queries. • Claude – given S‑tier because of its suite of features such as Claude Co‑Work and Claude Code, and its claim to be the world’s top coding assistant, making it accessible even for non‑technical users. • ChatGPT – moved from a previous S‑tier to A‑tier, used for rapid tasks like estimating calories from a food photo or parsing legal documents. • Granola – ranked A‑tier as the best note‑taking app, offering AI‑powered question answering, searchable transcripts, folder organization, and automatic summaries. The presenter concludes by inviting viewers to follow for more AI tips.

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I gathered the top 5 AI tools for business, and I'm going to rank them from A tier to D tier. First one is Gemini. Gemini has the most amazing models when it comes to image models, Nano Banana. And so I like it for image generation. I like it for video. I like it for deep research. So Gemini, I would put in A tier. Now, number 4, I would say is Perplexity. Perplexity is amazing for helping me do research on the go. I think it's the most complete tool when I want to do maybe very, very deep research for 8 minutes or so, or when I want to do maybe 2 to 3 minutes of research. So I would rate Perplexity B tier. Number 3 is Claude. Claude is amazing because it has a lot of different tools now, such as Claude Cowork, which can help you do actual work. Another example is Claude Code. And from a coding standpoint, Claude is number 1 in the world. It has its thinking models and people such as myself, non-technical people, I can create whatever I want. I would say that Claude combining its entire suite for business, I would say that's S tier. Number 2 would be ChatGPT. I use it for quickly helping me identify, for example, basic stuff like, hey, take a picture of my food, tell me how many calories I ate, help me from looking at legal documents, so I'm able to just quickly drag things in. I would say that before Claude Code got really good, to me OpenAI ChatGPT was S-tier. Now I would say it's probably A-tier. Number 1, last but not least, is Granola. So I've used a lot of note-taking apps out there. Granola is the best note-taking app out there because I can ask questions about its notes and I get the transcripts. I get these notes organized into folders. I also get the notes summarized using AI summaries. I would rate that probably A-tier. If you want more AI tips like this, just hit follow.