AI research assistant

Claude

Featured

Writing · Claude Opus / Sonnet

9.6

Anthropic's flagship assistant for long-form writing, analysis, and coding.

Gemini Advanced

Writing · Gemini 2.5 Pro

9.0

Google's flagship — strong at math, long context, and Workspace integration.

Ernie Bot

Agents · Baidu ERNIE 4.0 / ERNIE X1 / ERNIE Turbo (in-house)

8.7

Baidu's Mandarin-first ChatGPT rival, powered by the ERNIE model family

Glean

Agents · Model-agnostic: routes across 35+ LLMs including GPT-4o, Claude 3.5/4 Sonnet, Gemini 1.5/2, Llama 3, Mistral, plus Glean in-house models

8.5

Work AI platform that unifies enterprise knowledge, search, and agents

Yi (01.AI)

Agents · Yi-Lightning (MoE), Yi-Large, Yi-1.5 (6B/9B/34B), Yi-VL, Yi-Coder — in-house 01.AI foundation models

8.4

Foundation models from 01.AI — open-weight Yi family plus frontier Yi-Lightning and Yi-Large

Fireflies.ai

Audio · Multi-model (proprietary ASR + LLM layer)

8.2

AI meeting assistant that joins calls, transcribes them, and turns the talk into searchable notes and action items.

Hermes Agent

Agents · Multi-model (300+ via Nous Portal)

8.2

Open-source multi-channel AI agent with persistent memory, scheduling, and subagent delegation from Nous Research.

Scite

RAG · Multi-model

8.2

AI research assistant that grades citations as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning across 1.6B citation statements.

Vellum

Agents · Multi-model (Claude-class LLMs)

8.2

Personal AI assistant with persistent memory across email, calendar, and chat channels.

Kimi

Writing · Kimi K2 (K2.5 / K2.6 / K2.7 Code)

8.1

Moonshot AI's chat assistant with long-context document analysis, coding agents, and deep research built in.

Le Chat

Writing · Mistral Medium 3.5 / Small 4 / Voxtral

8.1

Mistral's ChatGPT-style assistant, now an agent that browses, codes, and plugs into your work tools.

NotebookLM

RAG · Gemini 2.5

8.1

Google's source-grounded research notebook that turns your documents into chats, briefs, and AI-hosted podcasts.

ChatGPT

Writing · GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, o-series reasoning models

8.0

OpenAI's flagship conversational assistant, and the default benchmark every other chatbot is measured against.

Sesame

Audio · Sesame CSM (1B / 3B / 8B)

8.0

Conversational voice AI aiming to cross the uncanny valley with context-aware, emotionally aware speech.

Khoj

Agents · Multi-model

7.9

Open-source personal AI that builds agents, searches your documents, and automates research across local files and the web.

Humata.ai

RAG · Multi-model

7.8

Chat-with-your-documents RAG tool with citation-backed answers across uploaded PDFs and files.

Gemini

Writing · Gemini 2.x (Flash / Pro / Ultra)

7.3

Google's flagship multimodal AI assistant with deep integration into Workspace and Android.

OpenBB

Agents · Multi-model (Agent Rita is model-agnostic)

7.3

Open-source financial workspace where analysts and AI agents share the same governed data.

Graphiti

RAG · Multi-model

7.2

Open-source temporal knowledge graph framework for building agent memory that updates in real time.

Grok

Writing · Grok (xAI)

7.2

xAI's conversational assistant with real-time X integration and a distinctly less-filtered personality.

Hermes One

Agents · Multi-model (BYO via OpenRouter/OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini/xAI/Ollama)

7.2

Open-source desktop AI agent with a self-improving learning loop and multi-platform messaging connectors.

mini-SWE-agent

Agents · Multi-model (via litellm, OpenRouter, Portkey)

7.2

A 100-line open-source coding agent that scores 74%+ on SWE-bench Verified.

Perplexity AI

RAG · Multi-model (Sonar, GPT-4 class, Claude, Gemini)

7.2

Conversational answer engine that cites its sources by default.

Elicit

RAG · Claude Opus 4.5

7.1

AI research assistant that searches, screens, and extracts data from 138M+ academic papers at scale.

Jenni AI

Writing

7.1

AI writing workspace built specifically for academic papers, theses, and cited research.

Rytr

Writing · Undisclosed

7.1

Budget AI writing assistant covering 40+ short-form copy use cases with a usable free tier.

YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude

Agents · Multi-model (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral)

7.1

Browser extension that pipes YouTube transcripts, articles, and PDFs into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Mistral for instant summaries.

AgenticSeek

Agents · Bring-your-own local LLM (Ollama / llama.cpp compatible)

7.0

Open-source local-first AI agent that browses the web, writes code, and runs tasks without sending anything to the cloud.

alphaXiv

RAG · Multi-model

7.0

AI reading layer over arXiv with grounded Q&A, auto-summaries, and line-by-line discussion on every preprint.

HyperWrite

Writing · Multi-model (undisclosed)

7.0

Browser-based AI writing assistant with autocomplete, persona-matching, and integrated research citations.

LogicBalls

Writing · Multi-model

7.0

Multi-model AI writing platform with a library of 5,000+ task-specific tools and anti-hallucination guardrails.

Z.ai

Writing · GLM-5.2 (GLM family)

7.0

Zhipu AI's free chat interface powered by the GLM family of large language models.

Copysmith

Writing · Multi-model

6.9

Umbrella content platform bundling Frase, Describely, and Rytr for SEO-aware AI writing at enterprise scale.

Elephas

Writing · Multi-model (GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, BYO API)

6.9

Privacy-first Mac AI writing assistant that redacts PII before any cloud call and indexes your files locally.

Kosmik

Image Generation

6.9

AI-powered infinite canvas for moodboards, research, and visual thinking.

Merlin AI

Writing · Multi-model (GPT-4o, Claude 3.7, Gemini 2.5, Llama 3.1, Mistral, Deepseek)

6.9

Browser-based multi-model AI assistant that puts GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini one keystroke away on any webpage.

Microsoft Copilot

Writing · GPT-4-class (OpenAI) + DALL-E

6.9

Microsoft's consumer AI assistant, formerly Bing Chat, now powered by GPT-4-class models with web grounding and image generation.

Mutiny

Agents · Multi-model (Claude integration referenced)

6.9

AI GTM assistant that drafts personalized decks, landing pages, and deal rooms for sales and marketing teams.

QuickCreator

Writing · Gemini

6.9

Multi-agent SEO blog writer aimed at solo founders who want to rank on Google and get cited by ChatGPT.

SciSpace

RAG · Multi-model

6.9

AI research assistant that turns dense PDFs and literature reviews into searchable, citation-backed answers.

ShyEditor

Writing · Multi-model (GPT-4, Grok)

6.9

AI-native writing environment that bolts an assistant, citation manager, and knowledge base onto a distraction-free markdown editor.

Yomu AI

Writing · Multi-model (GPT-4o/5, Claude Sonnet/Opus, Gemini Flash)

6.9

AI writing assistant built specifically for students and academic researchers.

Character.AI

Writing · Proprietary Character.AI models

6.8

Conversational roleplay platform with millions of user-created AI personas.

Genei

RAG · GPT-3 (per public site)

6.8

AI research assistant that summarizes PDFs and web pages and answers questions across your document library.

IntelliBar

Writing · Multi-model (GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, Gemini, o1, Llama, DeepSeek, Ollama)

6.8

Native macOS menu-bar client that talks to every major LLM with your own API keys.

Morpher AI

Agents · GPT-based

6.8

GPT-powered market insights bolted onto a multi-asset trading platform.

Persuva

Writing

6.8

AI copy and landing-page generator built specifically for dropshippers running Shopify stores.

Sourcely

Writing · GPT-4

6.8

AI source-finder that scans your draft and pulls citable academic papers to back each claim.