Assistant Tools
7 general-purpose AI assistants compared for everyday work — plans, what each unlocks, and which fits founders, marketers, designers, and analysts.
Chatgpt
OpenAI's general-purpose AI assistant for chat, research, and finished documents, with Projects, memory, plugins, and a Work mode for multi-step tasks.
Claude Cowork
Anthropic's agent for knowledge work that completes multi-step tasks in your folders, connectors, and browser, on desktop, web, and mobile.
Claude
Anthropic's AI assistant app for web, desktop, and mobile, with Projects, connectors, Artifacts, skills, memory, and code execution.
Gemini
Google's Gemini app, a general-purpose AI assistant with Deep Research, Gems, Canvas, and direct integration into Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Workspace.
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft's work assistant inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, grounded in your company's Microsoft 365 data, with Researcher and Analyst.
Notebooklm
Google's source-grounded research notebook, renamed from NotebookLM in July 2026, that answers only from your uploaded sources and turns them into media.
Perplexity
An AI answer engine that cites its sources on every response, with a Research mode for long reports, Projects for shared context, and the Comet browser.