Chat with an AI assistant
Asking a general-purpose AI chatbot questions and getting answers, explanations, writing help and ideas in a conversation. Talking with a character and support bots for your customers are different jobs.
Tools that achieve this
- Core fitFree
People who want a private AI assistant to chat with, research and ask about their documents should see AnythingLLM.
AnythingLLM brings
- Conversational QA
- Document QA
- Meeting Summarization
- Meeting Transcription
- Speech to Text
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ChatGPT
by OpenAI
Core fitFreePeople asking for a general AI chatbot to answer questions and help with everyday work should see ChatGPT, the best-known one.
ChatGPT brings
- Code Generation
- Conversational QA
- Data Analysis
- Data Visualization
- Deep Research
- Document QA
- Image Editing
- Multimodal Input
- Reasoning
- Speech to Speech
- Summarization
- Text Generation
- Text to Image
- Tool Use
- Translation
- Workflow Automation
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Claude
by Anthropic
Core fitFreePeople who want a general AI assistant to ask questions and think through tasks in conversation should see Claude.
Claude brings
- Code Generation
- Data Analysis
- Data Visualization
- Deep Research
- Document QA
- Multimodal Input
- Reasoning
- Summarization
- Text Generation
- Web Search
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- Core fitFree
DeepSeek offers a free conversational AI chat built on its own models.
DeepSeek brings
- Conversational QA
- Image Understanding
- Reasoning
- Text Generation
- Web Search
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Gemini
by Google
Core fitPeople asking for a general AI assistant to chat with should see Gemini, Google's assistant.
Gemini brings
- Avatar Video
- Code Generation
- Conversational QA
- Debugging
- Deep Research
- Document QA
- Image Editing
- Image to Video
- Image Understanding
- Multimodal Input
- Reasoning
- Summarization
- Text Generation
- Text to Image
- Text to Video
- Tool Use
- Video Editing
- Video to Video
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- Core fit
People asking for a general AI assistant to chat with should see Grok.
Grok brings
- Code Generation
- Conversational QA
- Image Editing
- Image to Video
- Reasoning
- Text to Image
- Text to Video
- Web Search
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- Core fit
Jan is an open-source desktop AI assistant positioned as a ChatGPT alternative.
Jan brings
- Code Generation
- Text Generation
- Tool Use
- Web Search
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Meta AI
by Meta
Core fitFreeMeta free general AI assistant and chatbot for questions, research and conversation in its app, on the web and in Meta apps.
Meta AI brings
- Conversational QA
- Image Understanding
- Multimodal Input
- Reasoning
- Voice Conversation
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Microsoft Copilot
by Microsoft
Core fitMicrosoft Copilot is a general-purpose AI chat assistant for answers, brainstorming and writing help across work, life and school.
Microsoft Copilot brings
- Conversational QA
- Text Generation
- Text to Image
- Voice Conversation
- Web Search
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Mistral Vibe
by Mistral AI
Core fitFreeMistral general AI chat assistant, formerly Le Chat, for questions, research, writing and everyday tasks.
Mistral Vibe brings
- Agent Creation
- Code Generation
- Deep Research
- Repository Understanding
- Test Generation
- Text Generation
- Tool Use
- Workflow Automation
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- Core fit
Open WebUI gives you a chat interface for talking with the models you connect.
Open WebUI brings
- Conversational QA
- Document QA
- Sharing & Publishing
- Tool Use
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Perplexity
by Perplexity
Core fitFreePeople who want to ask an AI questions and get answers should see Perplexity, an answer engine built around asking anything.
Perplexity brings
- Conversational QA
- Data Analysis
- Data Visualization
- Deep Research
- Document QA
- Prompt to App
- Summarization
- Web Search
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- Strong fit
Freebuff also offers Freebuff Chat, a general AI chat for answering questions.
Freebuff brings
- Code Generation
- Full Stack Generation
- Multi-Model Access
- Sandboxed Execution
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- Strong fit
You can chat with a local open model or its Bionic agent for help with general tasks.
LM Studio brings
- Agent Creation
- Code Generation
- Computer Use
- Speech to Text
- Text Generation
- Workflow Automation
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Speechify
by Speechify
Strong fitFreeA voice AI assistant you can ask questions and research topics with in conversation.
Speechify brings
- Conversational QA
- Dubbing
- Speech to Text
- Summarization
- Text to Speech
- Voice Cloning
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