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Draft, summarize, translate, and explore questions through a natural-language conversation. Give it context and review the output before using it.
- Draft emails and posts
- Summarize documents
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Claude
Work with long documents and writing tasks through a conversational assistant. Upload source material and ask for a draft, summary, or analysis.
- Long-document analysis
- Writing and editing
Perplexity
Research questions through an assistant that links to sources, helping you trace and check its answers.
- Source-linked answers
- Market research
Gemini
Use Google’s AI assistant to write, answer questions, and analyze material, with connections to Google Workspace.
- Writing assistance
- Image and document analysis
Microsoft Copilot
Use Microsoft’s assistant for conversational questions, web research, and image generation.
- Web-connected chat
- Image generation
DeepSeek
Use a conversational assistant for reasoning, mathematics, and programming tasks.
- Reasoning assistance
- Code help
Mistral (Le Chat)
Use Mistral’s Le Chat for conversational work and document tasks through a European AI provider.
- Conversational assistance
- Document tasks
Grok
Explore questions and conversations with xAI’s assistant, including information from X and image generation.
- Questions about X discussions
- Trend exploration
HuggingChat
Try open AI models through Hugging Face’s conversational interface and compare them on a real task.
- Open-model chat
- Model selection
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