💬AI Chatbots — 18 Best Tools

Quick list: AI Chatbots

1. Doubao — Doubao is ByteDance’s consumer AI assistant, powered by its in-house Doubao models and synced across web, desktop and mobile apps.
2. DeepSeek — DeepSeek is a Chinese lab known for strong reasoning models released with open weights and very low API prices.
3. Kimi — Kimi comes from Moonshot AI and first stood out for its very long context window, able to read entire contracts, annual reports or books and answer detailed qu…
4. Qwen Chat — Qwen Chat (Qianwen in China) is Alibaba’s assistant built on the Qwen model family, one of the most downloaded open-weight model families in the world.
5. ERNIE Bot — ERNIE Bot is Baidu’s chatbot built on its ERNIE models, drawing on Baidu Search and Baike for strong Chinese general knowledge.
6. Tencent Yuanbao — Tencent Yuanbao is Tencent’s AI assistant, letting you switch between its own Hunyuan models and DeepSeek.
7. ChatGLM — ChatGLM is the consumer assistant from Zhipu AI, a company with roots at Tsinghua University, running on its GLM models.
8. iFlytek Spark — iFlytek Spark is the LLM assistant from iFlytek, China’s speech-technology leader, so voice input, read-aloud and spoken multilingual conversation are strength…
9. StepFun AI — StepFun AI (formerly Yuewen) is the assistant from Shanghai-based StepFun, a team known for multimodal models with good photo, chart and document understanding.
10. Tiangong AI — Tiangong AI from Kunlun Tech began as an AI search product and now focuses on “super agents” that turn one request into a finished document, slide deck, spread…
11. ChatGPT — ChatGPT is OpenAI’s assistant and the product that kicked off the generative AI boom.
12. Claude — Claude, made by Anthropic, is known for natural writing, careful reading of long documents and strong coding ability.
13. Google Gemini — Gemini is Google’s natively multimodal assistant that understands text, images, audio and video and connects to Gmail, Docs, YouTube and Maps.
14. Grok — Grok is the assistant from Elon Musk’s xAI.
15. Microsoft Copilot — Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft’s consumer assistant, built into Windows, Edge and Bing and also available on the web.
16. Meta AI — Meta AI is Meta’s free assistant built on its Llama models.
17. Mistral Le Chat — Le Chat is the assistant from France’s Mistral AI, Europe’s best-known model developer and a major open-weight publisher.
18. Poe — Poe, from Quora, is an aggregator that gives one account access to many models, including GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, image and video models, plus bots created…