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SiteExplainer

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Explain a website in plain language and save a shareable overview

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ChatGPT Search & research

Editorial pick

ChatGPT combines conversation, writing, web research and file analysis in one assistant.

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A widely used starting point for everyday AI tasks.

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Gemini Search & research

Editorial pick

Gemini is Google's assistant for conversation, writing, research and creative work.

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A popular assistant for Google-based workflows.

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Perplexity Search & research

Editorial pick

Perplexity combines web search, answers and source links.

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For web research with links back to sources.

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DeepSeek Search & research

DeepSeek provides a public chat product and a separate developer platform for model access.

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Grok Search & research

Grok is a conversational assistant for exploring information and developing ideas.

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Gemini Notebook Search & research

Editorial pick

The reviewed Google product materials use Gemini Notebook, with NotebookLM retained as a familiar earlier name.

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For studying and synthesizing your own source materials.

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Kimi Search & research

Kimi provides conversation and task-oriented workflows for research, documents and presentations.

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Qwen Search & research

Qwen offers a user-facing chat product alongside officially published models and developer resources.

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Consensus Search & research

Consensus searches research papers to help users explore questions through academic sources.

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Elicit Search & research

Elicit is a research-work tool for literature discovery, evidence synthesis and data extraction.

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You.com Search & research

You.com's reviewed website emphasizes search APIs for developers and organizations.

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Scite Search & research

Scite combines research search with citation-context tools.

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Draft, revise and organize written work.

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