AI Assistants
General-purpose AI chat assistants and copilots
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Tool
Status
Since
Note
№07
ChatGPT
IN USE
JAN 26
Best For - General Q&A and quick research - Image generation (DALL-E built in) - Plugin ecosystem for special…
№06
Claude
IN USE
JAN 26
What It Does Claude is Anthropic's frontier AI assistant. It handles complex analysis, nuanced writing, codin…
№05
Gemini
IN USE
JAN 26
Best For - Gmail drafting and summarization - Google Docs assistance - Search-integrated research - Google Wo…
№04
Perplexity
IN USE
JAN 26
Best For - Research with source verification - Current events and news synthesis - Competitive intelligence -…
№03
DeepSeek
IN ROTATION
JAN 26
What It Does Open-source reasoning model from China that rivals frontier Western models at a fraction of the …
№02
Google NotebookLM
IN ROTATION
JAN 26
Best For - Analyzing multiple documents together - Research synthesis - Creating "audio overviews" (podcast-s…
№01
Microsoft Copilot
IN ROTATION
JAN 26
What It Does Microsoft's AI assistant embedded across the entire Office ecosystem. Drafts documents, analyzes…
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