OpenAI
ChatGPT
A general AI assistant for writing, research, planning, data analysis, coding help, and everyday work.
Turning rough ideas into clear drafts
Explaining a topic before you read deeper
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Research tools
Research AI tools that are useful for real work
Research tools help you gather facts, check sources, summarize long pages, and prepare a first draft before you make a decision.
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7 tools in this category
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Anthropic
Claude
A conversational AI assistant often used for long documents, careful writing, coding help, and structured reasoning.
Working through long documents and messy notes
Drafting clear internal documents
Gemini
Google's AI assistant for research, writing, productivity, image work, and Workspace tasks, with Gemini 3.7 Flash as the current stable API model.
People already using Google apps
Quick research and drafting
Perplexity
Perplexity
An answer engine for researching topics with visible source links and fast follow-up questions.
Getting a source-backed starting point
Comparing several pages quickly
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
A low-cost AI assistant and open-weight model family from a Chinese AI lab, used for chat, coding help, and research at a fraction of the price of larger providers.
Getting strong reasoning and coding help without paying premium API rates
Running an open-weight model yourself when you need control over your data
xAI
Grok
xAI's assistant for live web and X search, writing, voice, and media generation; Grok 4.6 is its current flagship API model.
Fast answers that pull in current web and X posts
Working inside X without switching to another app
NotebookLM
Google's research assistant that answers questions and builds summaries, audio overviews, and study material grounded in the sources you upload.
Turning your own documents, PDFs, and notes into answers with citations
Making an audio or video overview to review material without reading all of it