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AI Companions
AI companions are conversational AI systems built primarily for ongoing emotional, social, or romantic interaction with a single user, rather than for...
AI Tools & Products
AI Voice Agent
An AI voice agent is a conversational artificial intelligence system that communicates with users through spoken language in real time, holding fluid telephone...
AI AgentsArtificial Intelligence
Ada (company)
Ada (legally Ada Support Inc., and branded at the domain ada.cx) is a Toronto-based software company that builds an AI-powered platform for automating customer...
AI CompaniesEnterprise AI
Amazon Alexa
Amazon Alexa is a virtual assistant developed by Amazon, first introduced on November 6, 2014, alongside the Amazon Echo smart speaker, and rebuilt in 2025 as...
AI CompaniesAI Tools & Products
BSide: Olivia Lin
BSide: Olivia Lin (Chinese: 《BSide: Olivia Lin》, sometimes styled 林离 Olivia) is a free desktop application that combines an AI companion with a music player...
AI Tools & ProductsChinese AI
Bard
Bard was the conversational AI chatbot developed by Google, launched as an experimental service on February 6, 2023, opened to a public waitlist on March 21,...
AI HistoryGoogle
Best AI Search Engines
As of July 2026, the best AI search engine overall for research and citations is Perplexity, which runs its own web index and answers every query with numbered...
AI AgentsAI Tools & Products
Best AI Writing Tools
As of July 2026, the best all-purpose AI writing assistant is Claude, which produces the most natural, lowest-edit prose of the major assistants and is the...
AI Tools & ProductsGenerative AI
Bland AI
Bland AI is an enterprise voice AI platform that enables businesses to deploy, manage, and scale AI-powered phone agents for inbound and outbound calling....
AI AgentsAI Companies
BlenderBot
BlenderBot is a line of open-domain conversational agents built by Facebook AI Research (FAIR), the lab now known as Meta AI. Three main versions were released...
AI ModelsMeta AI
Chai (app)
Chai (also styled CHAI, and operated by Chai Research Corp., on the web at chai-research.com and historically chai.ml) is an AI companion and entertainment...
AI CompaniesAI Tools & Products
Character.AI
Character.AI (stylized as character.ai or c.ai) is an AI chatbot platform that lets users create and converse with virtual characters powered by large language...
AI CompaniesArtificial Intelligence
ChatGLM
ChatGLM is a series of open, bilingual (Chinese and English) conversational large language models developed by Zhipu AI together with the Knowledge Engineering...
Chinese AILarge Language Models
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini vs Grok
As of July 2026, there is no single best AI model for every job: the strongest AI chatbot depends on the task. Claude (flagship Claude Opus 4.8) leads agentic...
AI ModelsLarge Language Models
ChatKit
ChatKit is an embeddable chat-interface SDK from OpenAI that lets developers drop a ChatGPT-style conversational UI into a web or mobile product with a single...
Developer ToolsOpenAI
Chatbot
A chatbot is a software application that simulates conversation with human users through text or voice, ranging from simple rule-based programs that match...
AI HistoryAI Tools & Products
Claude vs ChatGPT
As of July 2026, neither Claude nor ChatGPT is universally better: the honest answer depends on the task. Claude, from Anthropic, leads on agentic coding,...
AI ModelsLarge Language Models
Cresta
Cresta (Cresta Intelligence, Inc., cresta.com) is an American company that builds generative AI software for contact centers. Its platform combines real-time...
AI CompaniesEnterprise AI
Doubao
Doubao (豆包, literally "bean bun") is China's most-used artificial intelligence chatbot, developed by ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok. Launched in...
Chinese AILarge Language Models
Gemini (app)
The Gemini app is Google's consumer AI assistant, a chat application available on the web at gemini.google.com and as native Android and iOS apps, powered by...
AI Tools & ProductsGoogle
Gemini Advanced
Gemini Advanced was the premium, paid tier of Google's Gemini consumer assistant, sold from February 2024 to May 2025 as part of a $19.99 per month...
AI Tools & ProductsGoogle
Gemini Live
Gemini Live is Google's natural-voice conversational mode in the Gemini app: a hands-free, interruptible spoken interface that lets a person talk to Google's...
GoogleVoice AI
Gemini vs ChatGPT
As of July 2026, neither Gemini nor ChatGPT is universally better: they trade wins by task. OpenAI's ChatGPT, led by GPT-5.5, is ahead on coding (SWE-bench...
AI ModelsLarge Language Models
Gong (company)
Gong (legally Gong.io, Inc.) is an American-Israeli software company that builds a revenue-intelligence platform: cloud software that records, transcribes, and...
AI CompaniesEnterprise AI
Hume AI
Hume AI is a New York-based artificial intelligence research company and API platform, founded in March 2021 by Alan Cowen, that builds "emotionally...
AI CompaniesSpeech & Audio AI
Inworld AI
Inworld AI is an American artificial intelligence company headquartered in Mountain View, California, that builds real-time voice and character AI...
AI CompaniesAI in Gaming
Janitor AI
Janitor AI is a character-based AI chatbot and roleplay platform hosted at janitorai.com, where users hold open-ended text conversations with user-created...
AI CompaniesAI Tools & Products
Kimi (chatbot)
Kimi is an artificial intelligence chatbot and assistant developed by Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based Chinese AI startup, first released to the public on November...
Chinese AILarge Language Models
LaMDA
LaMDA (short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a family of conversational large language models developed by Google, built on the Transformer...
GoogleLarge Language Models
Le Chat
Le Chat is the consumer AI assistant and conversational chatbot built by Mistral AI, the French artificial intelligence company headquartered in Paris, and is...
AI Tools & Products
Le Chat Enterprise
Le Chat Enterprise is the enterprise edition of Le Chat, the AI assistant from Paris-based Mistral AI, launched on May 7, 2025 as a company-wide assistant that...
AI CompaniesEnterprise AI
LiveKit Agents
LiveKit Agents is an open source framework for building realtime voice, video, and multimodal AI agents, developed by LiveKit Inc. It lets developers build a...
Developer ToolsOpen Source AI
Meta AI Studio
Meta AI Studio (often shortened to AI Studio) is a free platform from Meta that lets anyone build customizable AI characters and personas without writing code,...
AI Tools & ProductsMeta AI
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot is the umbrella brand that Microsoft uses for its generative AI assistants and agents across consumer, developer, and enterprise products. It...
AI Tools & ProductsMicrosoft
Moshi
Moshi is a full-duplex speech-to-speech foundation model developed by Kyutai, a French nonprofit artificial intelligence research laboratory. Announced on July...
AI ModelsOpen Source AI
OpenAI Realtime API
The OpenAI Realtime API is a speech-to-speech interface from OpenAI that lets developers build low-latency, bidirectional voice AI applications powered by...
Developer ToolsOpenAI
Parloa
Parloa is a German enterprise software company that builds an "Agentic AI" platform for customer service, letting large organizations deploy autonomous AI...
AI CompaniesEnterprise AI
Pennsylvania v. Character.AI
Pennsylvania v. Character Technologies, Inc. is a civil enforcement action filed on May 1, 2026, in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania...
AI Incidents & ControversiesAI Policy & Regulation
Pipecat
Pipecat is an open-source Python framework for building real-time voice and multimodal conversational AI agents.[2] Created by Daily, a WebRTC infrastructure...
Developer ToolsOpen Source AI
Poe (platform)
Poe (short for Platform for Open Exploration) is an AI chatbot aggregator platform developed and operated by Quora.[15] Poe provides access to multiple large...
AI Tools & Products
PolyAI
PolyAI is a British enterprise voice AI company founded in 2017 that builds autonomous phone agents for large-scale contact centers. The company deploys voice...
AI CompaniesEnterprise AI
Realbotix
Realbotix is a United States company that designs and manufactures lifelike, AI-powered humanoid robots for companionship, entertainment, and customer service....
AI CompaniesHumanoid Robots
Replika
Replika is an artificial intelligence companion chatbot developed and operated by Luka Inc., a San Francisco company founded in 2014 by Eugenia Kuyda and Phil...
AI EthicsAI Tools & Products
Retell AI
Retell AI is a voice AI agent platform that enables businesses to build, deploy, and manage AI-powered phone agents for inbound and outbound call automation....
AI AgentsAI Companies
Sierra AI
Sierra is a conversational AI company that builds AI-powered customer experience agents for businesses. Founded in 2023 by Bret Taylor, the former co-CEO of...
AI AgentsAI Companies
Sindarin
Sindarin (stylized sindarin. and operating as Sindarin Persona) is a small American startup building a real-time conversational voice AI platform for...
AI CompaniesVoice AI
Siri
Virtual assistant, conversational AI Developer October 14, 2011 (with iPhone 4S) Predecessor SRI International spin-out (2007) of the CALO project ...
AI CompaniesAI Tools & Products
Sparrow (DeepMind)
Sparrow is a research dialogue agent built by DeepMind and introduced on 22 September 2022. It was designed to be more helpful, correct, and harmless than a...
AI AlignmentGoogle DeepMind
Tavus
Tavus is an American generative AI research company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that develops video generation models and real-time...
AI CompaniesGenerative AI
Tencent Yuanbao
Tencent Yuanbao (Chinese: 腾讯元宝; pinyin: Téngxùn Yuánbǎo) is a consumer-facing artificial intelligence assistant application developed and operated by Chinese...
AI Tools & ProductsChinese AI
Tongyi Qianwen
Tongyi Qianwen (通义千问), the brand often glossed in English as "seeking truth by asking a thousand questions," is Alibaba Group's flagship large language model...
Chinese AILarge Language Models
Vapi
Vapi is a voice AI orchestration platform that lets software developers build, deploy, and scale AI phone agents through a programmable API. It works as a...
AI AgentsAI Companies