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.
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- 1ChatGPT↗ Rising
OpenAI's conversational AI assistant for writing, coding, analysis, and image generation; the most widely used chatbot.
Score 67.93
Why it's risingChatGPT's engagement is rising, with recent Hacker News activity showing 61 stories, 509 points, and 740 comments over the past week.
- 2Google GeminiWatchlist — no trend yet
Google's multimodal AI assistant for conversation, research, coding, and image generation, built on the Gemini models.
Score 66.38
What the data showsGoogle Gemini has generated 10 Hacker News stories with 692 points and 361 comments over the past 7 days, but there is not yet enough historical data to establish a reliable trend.
- 3Anthropic Claude↘ Cooling
Anthropic's conversational AI assistant for writing, coding, analysis, and research, noted for long-context reasoning.
Score 63.20
Why it's coolingEngagement with Anthropic Claude is cooling, with recent Hacker News activity showing 14 stories, 404 points, and 338 comments.
- 4DeepSeek↘ Cooling
Conversational AI assistant from the Chinese lab DeepSeek, built on its open-weight large language models.
Score 61.77
Why it's coolingDeepSeek's engagement is cooling, with recent Hacker News activity showing 20 stories, 479 points, and 155 comments over the past week.
- 5Meta AI↗ Rising
Meta's free AI assistant for chat, search, and image generation across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and the web.
Score 49.10
Why it's risingMeta AI's engagement is rising, with recent Hacker News activity showing 16 stories, 127 points, and 30 comments.
- 6PerplexityWatchlist — no trend yet
AI answer engine that responds to questions with cited, real-time sources from the web.
Score 42.55
What the data showsPerplexity has generated 10 stories with 52 points and 24 comments on Hacker News over the past week, though insufficient historical data prevents assessment of trend direction.
- 7Grok AI↘ Cooling
xAI's conversational assistant with real-time search, voice, and image and video generation, integrated with X.
Score 38.62
Why it's coolingEngagement with Grok AI is cooling, as evidenced by limited recent activity including 6 Hacker News stories with 32 points and 17 comments over the past 7 days.
- 8Microsoft CopilotWatchlist — no trend yet
Microsoft's AI assistant for chat, search, writing, and image generation, integrated across Windows, Microsoft 365, and Edge.
Score 27.03
What the data showsMicrosoft Copilot has generated 3 Hacker News stories with 8 points and 5 comments over the past 7 days, though insufficient history prevents a reliable trend assessment.
- 9DoubaoWatchlist — no trend yet
ByteDance's Chinese-market AI assistant for chat, writing, and image generation, built on its Doubao models.
Score 15.62
What the data showsDoubao has minimal engagement signals with just one Hacker News story receiving limited discussion in the past week.
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.
- 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