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Chatbots & Assistants

Ranked by current activity, adjusted for momentum — measured, not bought.

Updated nightly · momentum over the last 7 days · No paid placement. No pay-to-rank. Ever.

Rank shows current measured activity — not which tool is best for you.

bestofnow tracks which AI tools are gaining attention fastest, across ten categories. What do these numbers mean? →

  1. 1
    DeepSeek↗ Rising

    Conversational AI assistant from the Chinese lab DeepSeek, built on its open-weight large language models.

    Score 80.02

    Why it's rising

    DeepSeek: score 80/100, engagement is rising compared with ~7 days ago.

  2. 2
    Meta AI↗ Rising

    Meta's free AI assistant for chat, search, and image generation across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and the web.

    Score 76.14

    Why it's rising

    Meta AI: score 76/100, engagement is rising compared with ~7 days ago.

  3. 3
    Google Gemini↗ Rising

    Google's multimodal AI assistant for conversation, research, coding, and image generation, built on the Gemini models.

    Score 73.79

    Why it's rising

    Google Gemini: score 74/100, engagement is rising compared with ~7 days ago.

  4. 4

    Anthropic's conversational AI assistant for writing, coding, analysis, and research, noted for long-context reasoning.

    Score 73.58

    Why it's rising

    Anthropic Claude: score 74/100, engagement is rising compared with ~7 days ago.

  5. 5
    ChatGPT↘ Cooling

    OpenAI's conversational AI assistant for writing, coding, analysis, and image generation; the most widely used chatbot.

    Score 54.21

    Why it's cooling

    ChatGPT: score 54/100, engagement is cooling compared with ~7 days ago.

  6. 6
    Grok AI↘ Cooling

    xAI's conversational assistant with real-time search, voice, and image and video generation, integrated with X.

    Score 41.32

    Why it's cooling

    Grok AI: score 41/100, engagement is cooling compared with ~7 days ago.

  7. 7
    PerplexityWatchlist — no trend yet

    AI answer engine that responds to questions with cited, real-time sources from the web.

    Score 32.49

    What the data shows

    Perplexity: score 32/100, not enough history yet for a reliable trend.

  8. 8
    Muse WonderWatchlist — no trend yet

    Meta's frontier model for coding, long-running agents and computer use, available through the Meta Model API

    Score 17.24

    What the data shows

    Muse Wonder: score 17/100, not enough history yet for a reliable trend.

  9. 9

    Microsoft's AI assistant for chat, search, writing, and image generation, integrated across Windows, Microsoft 365, and Edge.

    Score 15.27

    Why it's cooling

    Microsoft Copilot: score 15/100, engagement is cooling compared with ~7 days ago.

Watchlist — building baseline

Too little current activity in our sources to score or read a direction reliably. These are measured nightly — they move up the moment the data does.

  • Doubao

    ByteDance's Chinese-market AI assistant for chat, writing, and image generation, built on its Doubao models.

  • Manus AI

    Autonomous AI agent that independently plans and executes multi-step tasks like research, coding, and web actions.

  • Scarlett

    AI co-worker in Slack, powered by Claude, that runs on its own cloud computer, connects to 3,000+ tools, and completes tasks end to end

  • discode.ai

    Multi-model chat front end with on-device PII redaction and per-message model switching

  • Genspark

    All-in-one AI workspace whose agents plan and execute tasks over a cross-app memory layer that connects mail calendar documents and meetings including a MagSafe recorder card that captures conversations