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ChatGPT
AssistantThe default general assistant — research, drafts, and voice in one place.
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Claude
AssistantLong-context writing and coding partner with a calmer, more careful voice.
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Gemini
AssistantGoogle’s assistant with Workspace and Search sitting underneath.
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Perplexity
ResearchCited answers instead of a blank chat. Search that argues with sources.
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Cursor
CodeThe AI-native editor that made tab-complete feel like a teammate.
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GitHub Copilot
CodeAutocomplete and chat welded into GitHub, VS Code, and the PR flow.
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Midjourney
ImageStill the taste leader for cinematic stills and art direction.
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Runway
VideoGen video and editing tools for people who already think in timelines.
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ElevenLabs
AudioThe voice clone and TTS stack everyone else is compared to.
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Notion AI
ProductivityAI sitting on top of the wiki you already refuse to leave.
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Grammarly
WritingThe everywhere editor — now with generative rewrite, not just commas.
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Jasper
WritingMarketing-team AI with brand voices and campaign workflows.
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Copy.ai
WritingGTM workflows more than a blank page — sequences, not slogans.
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v0
CodeDescribe a UI, get React + Tailwind that is closer than it has any right to be.
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Grok
AssistantxAI’s assistant with a live firehose into X and a sharper tone.
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Microsoft Copilot
AssistantCopilot across Bing, Windows, and Microsoft 365.
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Leonardo.Ai
ImageProduction image studio with models you can steer for game and product art.
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Ideogram
ImageThe one that can actually spell inside the picture.
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Adobe Firefly
ImageGenerative fill inside Photoshop, Illustrator, and Express — commercially safer.
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Canva Magic Studio
DesignAI features inside the tool non-designers already use every Tuesday.
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Gamma
DocsPrompt a deck or doc and get something you can actually present.
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Beautiful.ai
DocsSmart slides that refuse to let you break the grid.
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Descript
AudioEdit podcasts and videos by editing the transcript.
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Otter.ai
MeetingsMeeting notes that show up before you remember to write them.
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Fireflies.ai
MeetingsConversation intelligence for teams that live on Zoom.
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HeyGen
VideoAvatar video for training, ads, and localization without a studio day.
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Synthesia
VideoEnterprise avatar video — the grown-up cousin of the influencer clone.
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Pika
VideoPlayful gen video with a consumer-friendly loop.
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Kling AI
VideoHigh-end text-to-video from Kuaishou — longer, more physical shots.
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Luma Dream Machine
VideoDream Machine plus 3D-ish worlds from Luma.
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Suno
AudioType a vibe, get a finished song with vocals.
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Udio
AudioThe other great music model — often richer mixes than Suno.
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NotebookLM
ResearchGround the model in *your* sources. Audio overviews made it famous.
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Elicit
ResearchSystematic literature review without pretending to be a search bar.
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Consensus
ResearchAsk a scientific question, get the literature’s lean.
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Hugging Face
PlatformThe public square for models, datasets, and Spaces.
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Replicate
PlatformRun other people’s models with an API and a credit card.
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Groq
PlatformInference so fast it changes what a UI can feel like.
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Together AI
PlatformOpen-model inference and fine-tunes for teams that left the closed garden.
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Character.AI
AssistantCharacters, roleplay, and companionship at consumer scale.
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Poe
AssistantOne inbox for many models — Quora’s aggregator done right.
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Zapier
AutomationThe integration layer — now with agents that can run the zap for you.
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Make
AutomationVisual scenarios with more control than Zapier and more rope.
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n8n
AutomationSelf-hostable workflow automation with serious AI nodes.
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Intercom Fin
SupportThe support agent that made ‘AI deflection’ a board metric.
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Superhuman
ProductivityFast email with Auto Drafts and Ask AI sitting on the keyboard.
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Linear
ProductivityIssue tracking with AI that writes the issue instead of a new app.
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Replit Agent
CodeDescribe an app, get a running one in a cloud workspace.
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fal
PlatformGenerative media APIs with latency that feels like a product, not a batch job.
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Manus
AgentsGeneral agent that plans, browses, and ships files — the ‘do the task’ class.
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