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ChatGPT

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Conversational AI assistant for writing, coding and research.

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Claude

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Anthropic's assistant known for long context, careful writing and safer reasoning.

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Perplexity

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AI answer engine with real-time web search and inline citations.

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NotebookLM

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Google's research assistant grounded in your own documents.

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Gemini

Google's multimodal assistant with deep Workspace integration.

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Grok

xAI's chatbot with real-time X integration and a less-filtered tone.

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DeepSeek

Open-weight reasoning models with a very low API cost.

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Mistral

European AI lab shipping fast open and commercial models.

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Midjourney

High-quality AI image generation with a distinctive cinematic aesthetic.

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Flux

Open-weight image model with excellent prompt adherence and text rendering.

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Ideogram

Text-to-image model specialized in legible in-image typography.

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Leonardo AI

Image generation focused on game art, concept art and controllable outputs.

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