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Ten beginner guides across chat, research and creative work. Find each app by its logo, then read what it does and how to use it.
ChatGPT is OpenAI’s conversational AI assistant. You type or speak a request and it generates a response. It can help with writing, learning, planning and coding, but a fluent answer is not a guarantee that the information is correct.
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Claude is Anthropic’s AI assistant and the name of its model family. In the Claude app, you can have a conversation to draft text, examine material, brainstorm or work on code. Its answers still need human review.
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Gemini is Google’s AI assistant and also the name of its AI model family. The Gemini app can help you brainstorm, draft and understand information. Features connected to other Google services depend on your account, permissions and availability.
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Perplexity is an AI answer and research tool that searches the web and presents responses with source links. It can help you get oriented on a topic, but citations are a starting point for checking an answer, not proof that it is reliable.
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Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft’s AI assistant for questions, ideas, writing and other tasks. The name appears across several products. Consumer Copilot, Copilot in Microsoft 365 and GitHub Copilot are different experiences, with different access and features.
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DeepSeek is an AI company that develops models and offers a chat assistant. You can use its official chat service for questions and text-related tasks; developers can use its API. A hosted app and a model downloaded to another system are not the same setup.
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Midjourney is an AI creative service known for generating images from prompts. You describe a scene or use supported visual references, then refine the result. It is useful for exploring visual ideas, but a generated image is not documentary evidence.
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Runway is a creative platform with generative AI tools, especially for video. You can describe a shot or use an image as a starting point, then work on the generated clip. It helps create visual material; it does not guarantee a finished, coherent film.
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ElevenLabs develops AI audio tools, including text-to-speech, voice design, voice cloning and dubbing. You can turn a script into spoken audio, but natural-sounding speech does not guarantee accurate wording, pronunciation or permission to use a voice.
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Suno is an AI music creation service. You can describe the kind of music you want and work with generated songs. Creating, sharing and commercially using a song are different activities, so check the current rights and download rules before publishing.
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