Chat Tools
General-purpose assistants for writing, questions, and coding.
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- Useful for creators, operations and product teams, and anyone looking to apply AI to everyday work.
29 tools
Zhipu AINew
Zhipu's global Z.ai platform and mainland China BigModel platform provide AI assistants, agents, GLM APIs, and Coding Plans for different regions.
Quark AINew
Alibaba's AI search and productivity platform: an AI super box on mobile and a desktop browser with Qwen built in, plus cloud storage, AI writing and study tools.
Mistral AINew
France's Mistral models — the Mistral Large 3 flagship is a 675B/41B sparse MoE with a 256K context under Apache 2.0 — plus the Le Chat assistant and a pay-per-token API
ChatGPT
OpenAI's AI chat product for Q&A, writing, code, data analysis, image generation, and web search; it moved fully to GPT-6 in October 2026, and the Free and Go tiers show ads
Wenxin Yiyan
Baidu's ERNIE chat entry point — the web app remains at yiyan.baidu.com and the mobile app is now called Wenxiaoyan; it currently runs ERNIE 5.0 / 5.1 with deep Baidu Search integration
Tongyi Qianwen
Alibaba's Qianwen assistant — the web entry moved from tongyi.com to qianwen.com; the current flagship model is Qwen3.8-Max and the open-weight releases continue
DoubaoNew
ByteDance's AI assistant, running on the Doubao 2.1 model family since June 2026 across chat, voice, image generation and office tasks
ClaudeNew
Anthropic's AI assistant, with Fable 5.1 at the top and Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 as the everyday workhorses, built for long documents, coding, and agent workflows
PerplexityNew
An AI search engine that searches the live web and answers with clickable source citations.
Google GeminiNew
Google's AI assistant, with Gemini 3.8 Flash as the newest model, multimodal input, and Search and Workspace integration; from October 9, 2026 the free tier keeps only Flash-Lite
Grok
xAI's real-time information assistant; the latest Grok 4.7 targets coding and knowledge work, with a 500,000-token context window.
OpenGPT
A third-party ChatGPT app community that packages tuned system prompts into ready-to-use mini-tools you can also build and share
Character.AI
An AI character chat platform with millions of user-made characters; since November 2025 under-18 users no longer get open-ended chat, and age is verified through Persona
Poe
Quora's multi-model AI platform — one subscription and a compute-point meter across 200+ official models and a large library of user-built bots
DeepSeek
DeepSeek's LLM products: V4-Pro and V4-Flash both ship a native 1M-token context window, model weights are open-sourced, and the web app and mobile apps are free to use.
Anthropic
The company behind Claude: model documentation, API references and enterprise entry points (for the chat product, see Claude).
OpenCat
A native multi-model AI client for macOS, iOS and iPadOS that connects to services including ChatGPT and Claude.
Kimi
Moonshot AI's Kimi, now at kimi.com; K3 targets agentic coding and long documents with a native 1M-token context window.
YOU
An AI search and research platform that shifted in 2026 to usage-billed search and Research APIs, with a free tier of 100 queries a day
ColossalChat
An open-source chat demo for the Colossal-AI framework showing a complete RLHF training pipeline; the hosted demo is bound by the LLaMA licence
iFlytek SparkNew
An AI large language model developed by iFlytek, specializing in content generation and conversational interactions.
Tencent YuanbaoNew
Tencent's AI assistant built on the Hunyuan models, able to search WeChat Official Account and Channels content, with document reading, an AI voice recorder, and an expert mode for in-depth answers
Baichuan IntelligenceNew
Baichuan's foundation-model and medical-AI platform, offering model APIs, healthcare models, and user-facing AI services.
ByteDance XiaowukongNew
ByteDance's content generation toolkit
huggingChatNew
Hugging Face's open-model chat interface, with Omni model routing and manual model selection.
LLaMA (Meta AI)New
Meta's open model family, with Llama weights available for self-hosting and fine-tuning; from 2026 its frontier models moved to the closed Muse series, while the Apache 2.0 Muse Glimmer continues the open-weight line
Tiangong AI SearchNew
Developed by Kunlun Tech, an AI-native search engine that delivers information through conversational interactions
devv.aiNew
A developer-focused AI product that has moved from a developer search engine to an AI coding agent for building full-stack AI applications
LinerNew
An AI search and research suite split into Liner (web search), Liner Scholar (academic), and Liner Write (writing); the main site moved to liner.com
