Best AI for teaching material/ studying/ learning?

[u/Dependent-Dog7706]

For context, I am college student majoring in chemical engineering. Last year, I heavily used AI for studying and learning. I am very explicit in how I prompt the AI and really key in on the fine details of what I am trying to learn.

For example, I would send whole lectures slides and ask AI to teach them to me like a professor. I would send practice problems from homework or other resources and ask AI to connect the lectures and learning to the questions. You get the jist.

I found this way of learning to be very beneficial to me, and halfway through the year I would end up just skipping most lectures and just use AI to learn the content because I learned much better that way.

So my question is: Which AI would you guys say is the best for teaching material and learning. I want it to pretty much be a substitute for lectures and professors. Something where I can send specific lesson topics to, and they will have full understanding of what is being taught and what I need to know, along with the best ability to convey that information to me effectively.

Last year, I started with chatGPT but then switched to claude because I heard it was better. I bought the premium/plus versions for both whenever I used them. These worked well and I didn’t have much problems with either, but I am wondering if there is another AI that is better suited for the job. I just want whatever would work best. I plan on buying the premium subscription for whatever one I plan on using, so I would prefer nothing over 20-25 dollars a month.

[u/Big-Flan-5663]

Mientras más parámetros "más sabe una IA" Prueba gpt 5x, gemini 3.1 pro (la mejor, en mi opinión) O también Qwen 3.8 max (gratis, qwen studio, recomiendo está) o kimi k3

[u/brarkaddy]

Notebook llm

[u/NeuralNomad87]

NotebookLM is the right shout for the slides, but I would push back gently on the framing. The thing that made last year work for you was not the model, it was that you were reading actively and asking precise questions. That transfers to any of them.

Where it will bite you in chem eng specifically is the quantitative work. Multi step unit conversions, thermo state tables, anything where a value has to survive five steps. All of them still slip there, and they slip confidently, which is worse than slipping obviously. Worth building the habit of checking arithmetic yourself even when the reasoning wrapped around it reads perfectly.

The change I would actually make is not the model, it is the direction. You are asking it to explain, and explanation always feels like learning even when it is not. Ask it to examine you instead. Give it the lecture, then have it ask you six questions on it and mark you honestly with the marking scheme visible. That is the part a professor does that no amount of good explaining replaces, and it is the part almost nobody sets up.