Pi

Inflection’s personal AI built for supportive, natural conversation.

You.com

AI search assistant with cited answers and multiple models.

Grok

xAI’s conversational assistant with real-time knowledge from X.

Mistral AI

Open-weight European AI models and the Le Chat assistant.

DeepSeek

Open, low-cost AI chat and reasoning models.

Poe

Chat with many AI models — GPT, Claude, Gemini and more — in one app.

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft’s AI assistant built into Windows, Edge, and Microsoft 365.

Google Gemini

Google’s multimodal AI assistant for chat, writing, images, and research.

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