Chatbots & Assistants — Trending AI Tools

OpenAI’s general-purpose AI assistant for writing, research, analysis, coding and more. It ranked first in June 2026 traffic data for AI tools.

Best for: Drafting, brainstorming and everyday questions

Google’s AI assistant and model family, integrated with Google’s apps and search. Traffic grew roughly 40% between February and June 2026.

Best for: Google Workspace users and multimodal tasks

Anthropic’s AI assistant, widely used for analysing long documents, writing and coding. Its traffic more than tripled between February and June 2026, the fastest growth among the most-visited AI tools.

Best for: Long documents, careful writing and coding

Microsoft’s AI assistant, built into Windows, the Edge browser and Microsoft 365 apps.

Best for: Windows, Edge and Microsoft 365 workflows

A Chinese AI lab’s chatbot and open-weight models, popular with developers and researchers.

Best for: Reasoning tasks and open-weight models

The AI chatbot built into X (formerly Twitter), from xAI.

Best for: Conversations tied to what is happening on X