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Chat & Assistants
AI assistants for general conversation, reasoning, research, productivity and multimodal everyday work.
19Published tools
2Related models 16Guides
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AI Orbit currently tracks 19 published Chat & Assistants tools. Supporting intelligence currently connects 2 related AI models and 16 guides. Use the linked profiles and evidence below to compare products without treating missing data as a negative score.
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How to choose Chat & Assistants AI tools
Chat assistants differ less by headline features than by reasoning quality, memory, multimodal support, integrations and how safely they fit into everyday work. Use this category to compare the practical workflow around the assistant, not just the model name behind it.
Multimodal support
Check whether image, file, voice or web inputs are actually available in the plan and platform you intend to use.
Workflow fit
Look for integrations, project features, collaboration and privacy controls that match personal or team use.
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OpenAI
ChatGPT
OpenAI's general-purpose AI assistant for writing, reasoning, research, coding, files, images and voice.
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Anthropic
Claude
Anthropic's AI assistant for reasoning, writing, coding, long documents and agentic knowledge work.
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Dust
Dust
Enterprise AI assistant and agent platform grounded in company knowledge and connected tools.
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Quora
Poe
Multi-model AI assistant platform with official and user-created bots for text, image, video and audio tasks.
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Character.AI
Character.AI
Conversational AI platform centered on creating and interacting with AI characters.
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DeepSeek
DeepSeek
AI assistant from DeepSeek for reasoning, coding, question answering and general chat.
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Alibaba Cloud
Qwen Studio
Alibaba Cloud's Qwen assistant interface for chat, reasoning, multimodal and coding tasks.
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Google DeepMind
Gemini
Google's personal AI assistant across web, mobile and connected Google apps for research, creation and tasks.
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Moonshot AI
Kimi
Moonshot AI assistant for web-connected search, reasoning, multimodal work and long-context conversations.
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Tencent
Tencent Yuanbao
Tencent AI assistant for conversational question answering and general productivity tasks.
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Meta
Meta AI
Meta's personal AI assistant across the Meta AI app, web, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Messenger.
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Proton
Lumo AI
Privacy-focused AI assistant from Proton for writing, research, reasoning, files and general questions.
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