Chat & agents
Consumer assistants and autonomous agents you interact with directly. These are the products most people picture when they say "AI," from plain chat interfaces to agents that browse, act, and drive a computer on your behalf.
Chat
General-purpose conversational assistants you talk to across web, mobile, and desktop.
- ChatGPT - OpenAI's consumer chat product with memory, canvas, voice, and the broadest third-party app ecosystem.
- Claude - Anthropic's assistant known for long-context reasoning, Projects, Artifacts, and Computer Use.
- Gemini - Google's multimodal assistant integrated across Workspace, Android, and the Pixel line.
- Grok - xAI's assistant with real-time access to X and a distinct, less-filtered persona.
- Meta AI - Assistant embedded across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and Ray-Ban Meta glasses.
- Vibe - Mistral's assistant, formerly Le Chat, unifying chat, work automation, and remote coding agents.
General-purpose agents
Agents that plan and execute multi-step tasks across your tools, often specialized to a company's workflows and grounded in private data, returning finished work rather than just answers.
- ChatGPT Agent - OpenAI's agent that browses, uses tools, and completes multi-step web tasks on the user's behalf.
- Claude Cowork - Anthropic's agent for non-coding knowledge work that runs background and scheduled tasks across shared projects and files.
- Dust - Enterprise platform for building no-code AI agents grounded in company data through 100+ connectors, where teams and agents collaborate in a shared workspace.
- Manus - General-purpose agent that plans, browses, writes code, and returns finished deliverables.
- Swiftask - No-code platform for building and orchestrating multi-model AI agents across a company's tools, with centralized governance.
Self-hosted personal AI agents
Open-source assistants you self-host on your own server or VPS rather than your laptop, with persistent memory, custom skills, and access over the messaging apps you already use.
- Hermes Agent - Nous Research's self-hosted agent that keeps memory across sessions, writes its own reusable skills, and is reachable over Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and CLI.
- OpenClaw - Self-hosted personal AI assistant that runs on your own devices and answers you across WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Signal, iMessage, and many other channels.
- Paperclip - Open-source, self-hosted control plane for running and governing teams of AI agents with org charts, budgets, and goals.
Computer use models
Models and agents that operate a real browser or desktop by reading the screen and taking actions the way a person would.
- Browser Use - Open-source library that lets AI agents control a browser to complete web tasks.
- Claude for Chrome - Anthropic's Claude agent that navigates and takes actions inside your Chrome browser.
- cua - Open-source infrastructure and SDK for building computer-use agents that control full desktops in sandboxes.
- Firecrawl - API that crawls and scrapes websites into clean, LLM-ready markdown and structured data.
- H Company - Lab whose Holo models and Surfer H agent operate a real browser and desktop by reasoning, planning, and executing multi-step computer-use tasks.
- OpenAI Operator - OpenAI's computer-use agent that operates a browser via screenshots and actions.