The best AI assistants
Your AI brain to chat with about everything. Best fits first, then ranked by recent mentions and activity.
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1.ChatGPT
94OpenAI's all-purpose assistant: chat, search, files, images and agents.
2.DeepSeek
91Free chat with DeepThink reasoning and web search on open models.
3.Claude
87Anthropic's assistant for writing, analysis, long documents and code.
4.Grok
87Chat, reasoning and live answers from the web and X, with voice.
5.Qwen
84Alibaba's free assistant: chat, documents, web search and artifacts.
6.Google Gemini
82Google's assistant, connected to Search, Gmail, Docs and Drive.
7.Kimi
82Chat plus agent modes for research, slides, docs and sheets.
8.Meta AI
72Free answers, images, shopping help and local ideas from Meta.
9.Microsoft Copilot
70Microsoft's free everyday assistant on the web, Windows, Edge and mobile.
10.Mistral Vibe
70Mistral's European chat assistant with search, connectors and agents.
11.Perplexity
63A search-first chat assistant with cited answers.