Apps.

Commercial-safe, trained on licensed data.

Reportedly in development, code-named N50.

Beam AI, plus the finance specialist Hebbia.

Glasses with a colour microOLED display and the Noa AI assistant with long-term memory.

Newer entrants to the computer-use space.

Browses for the longest, most structured reports.

Codex-powered work agents; cloud-only, on Business and Enterprise plans.

Terminal-native agent that consistently ranks #1 across independent benchmarks; works in terminal, IDE and browser.

Desktop agent for macOS and Windows that edits files, organises folders, synthesises research and runs scheduled multi-step tasks in a privacy-first sandbox.

The current flagship (with Sonnet 4.6 and Haiku 4.5); at or near the top for complex multi-file coding and long-context technical work, and the most natural for prose.

The leading open-source coding agents.

Claude's screen-driving capability.

The leading AI-native IDE and daily driver; Cursor 3 shipped Build in Parallel and Composer 2.5.

Open-weight model with a memory-efficient architecture.

The most autonomous coding agent; Nubank used it to finish a migration projected at 18 months in weeks.

The voice leader for realism and cloning; launched an iOS music app with a marketplace, on licensed data.

Glasses with a minimalist display and no camera.

Best free tier.

Best for global teams.

The open-source frontrunner; competitive at much lower cost.

Smart rings.

Leads most published reasoning benchmarks and has the cheapest output among the majors; paired with Gemini Spark for long cloud tasks.

Built for long async research workflows.

An all-in-one work agent with a mixture-of-agents design that can even make phone calls.

The mass-market coding assistant.

Briefly held #1 on a hard coding benchmark, the week closed models lost their leaderboard lock.

Multi-agent release with dynamic sub-agents and scheduled background tasks.

The everyday default; a strong all-rounder with the biggest ecosystem.

ChatGPT Images 2.0; best for text and infographics, and the replacement for the retired DALL-E 2 and 3.

The bot-free favourite of VCs and consultants; captures audio locally on a Mac with no bot in the participant list.

A new architecture running several agents in parallel; strongest on cutting-edge and breaking knowledge.

The only one pulling live data from X, so it wins on breaking news.

Currently tops the Artificial Analysis leaderboard.

Avatar and talking-head video.

Strong on text rendering.

Open-weight model whose Agent Swarm scales to 300 parallel sub-agents.

The cheapest premium model; excellent at multi-shot cinematic sequences.

Meta acquired Limitless (Dec 2025); Amazon acquired Bee (mid-2025).

An open-weight frontier contender.

A Chinese-origin general agent that runs long multi-step jobs end-to-end with minimal input in a cloud sandbox.

Desktop screen-driving from Manus.

Agentic automation inside Excel, governed by Agent 365; the easiest fit if you live in Microsoft 365.

Built into the meeting platforms themselves.

Still the king of artistic and stylised output.

Gemini 3 Pro Image; leads the image-arena leaderboard, with the best multilingual text rendering, free in the Gemini app.

The OpenClaw ecosystem: lighter-weight (Nano/Zero), security-hardened (Iron), self-improving with memory (Hermes), NVIDIA's enterprise take (Nemo), and multi-agent coordination (Hi).

Both entered the meeting-notes space in 2025.

An always-on pendant.

Coding agent built on GPT-5.5.

The self-hosted personal agent that started the category; runs 24/7 through a central controller.

OpenAI's browser agent.

Live captions and conversational search.

The leader; ad-free, with Deep Research, multi-model Council cross-checking, the Comet browser and the Sonar API.

An always-on AI on a dedicated Mac mini that monitors triggers and carries work forward 24/7, with a kill switch and full audit trail.

Pika, Luma Dream Machine / Ray3, and Hailuo (MiniMax).

An always-on pendant; won Forbes' 2026 Best AI Wearable.

Other solid voice picks.

Google's browser agent.

An open-weight frontier contender.

Glasses with a camera and Meta AI.

Best for vector and branding work.

Director controls and storyboards.

Currently tops the Artificial Analysis leaderboard.

OpenAI stepped back from the consumer video race.

The song-quality benchmark.

Best raw fidelity and stem separation, with a cleaner licensing story after Universal settled.

An on-device assistant with its own memory and credentials the model can never read (credential isolation).

The fidelity leader and the only major tool that generates synchronised audio in the same pass.

Full AI IDE; its Apr 2026 release embedded Devin Cloud in-IDE with a Kanban command center for local and cloud agents.