Xiaomi MiMo is Xiaomi's AI model family and platform: chat in MiMo AI Studio, an OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible API, voice models, and coding and desktop agents. Its MiMo-V2.6-Pro, released with MIT-licensed weights on September 22, 2026, is the top open-weights model on Artificial Analysis's index as of October 17, 2026.
T3 Code is a free, MIT-licensed app from T3 Tools Inc., credited to Theo Browne's team, that runs the coding agents you already pay for, such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode, side by side from a desktop, web or phone interface. First released on March 7, 2026, its GitHub repository had 28.1k stars on October 17, 2026.
Runable is a general AI agent that builds websites, apps, slides, documents, images and videos and now also runs ads and outreach, made by a 15-person startup in Bengaluru founded in 2025 by Umesh Kumar and Saksham Sarda. It turned on paid plans in March 2026 and raised a 21 million USD Series A on August 26, 2026.
Polsia is an AI service from Polsia, Inc. that says its agents plan, code and market a company with no human staff. Founder Ben Broca launched it in December 2025 and reports 10,000 paying customers; critics doubt his revenue figures, and his own numbers show nine in ten companies on it have yet to earn a dollar.
Duck.ai is DuckDuckGo's private AI chat, launched in June 2024 as DuckDuckGo AI Chat. It lets you use models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral and others without an account, and DuckDuckGo strips your IP address before each request. Six models are free; stronger ones come with DuckDuckGo's 9.99 or 19.99 USD monthly plans.
Command Code is a terminal coding agent from Langbase, Inc., trading as Command Code and led by Ahmad Awais, that says it learns your coding "taste" from the changes you accept, reject and edit. Announced with 5 million USD in seed funding on February 25, 2026, it now focuses on low-cost open models, with plans from 1 USD a month.
Browser Use is an MIT-licensed Python library and a paid cloud service that let AI agents operate real web browsers, made by a Y Combinator startup founded by Magnus Müller and Gregor Žunič. Its GitHub repository had about 118,300 stars on October 17, 2026, up from about 50,000 at its 17 million USD seed round in March 2025.
ZCode is Zhipu AI's (Z.ai) free desktop coding-agent app for macOS, Windows and Linux, built around its GLM-5.3 model, with model use billed through the GLM Coding Plan from 18 USD a month. First released as Z Code in December 2025, it switched to Zhipu's own agent in June 2026; Z.ai said in August it had passed one million users.
WorkBuddy is Tencent's AI agent for office work, built by the Tencent Cloud CodeBuddy team and launched in China on March 9, 2026. In seven months it added a global edition and phone apps, and Tencent announced a Guangdong government version. It plans tasks, works on your local files and hands back documents, spreadsheets and slides.
Raccoon Work (商汤小浣熊) is SenseTime's AI assistant for office work: data analysis, documents and slides on web, desktop and phone. SenseTime merged its office and coding assistants into it on August 25, 2026, and its first-half results report cloud monthly users up nearly tenfold. No independent test of the new version is public yet.
Gemini Notebook is Google's research notebook that answers from the sources you add and turns them into audio, video, reports and quizzes. Google renamed it from NotebookLM on July 16, 2026; it is the same standalone product, existing notebooks carried over, and notebooklm.google.com now redirects to notebook.google.com.
Muse is Meta's personal AI agent: it books, shops, sends email and fills in forms from its own cloud computer, asking before it pays or sends. Meta launched it in the US on September 8, 2026 and has since added Canada. Early reviews are mixed, and Amazon blocks it from buying on its store.
Manus is a general AI agent that researches and builds slides, websites, videos and games, made by a company founded in China in 2022 and based in Singapore. China blocked Meta's purchase of Manus on April 27, 2026; Manus resumed independent operations on September 1 and launched Manus 2.0 on September 28, 2026.
Grok is the chatbot from SpaceXSI, the Musk company formerly called xAI and then SpaceXAI, sold since October 13, 2026 in the X Subscription. Since January 2026 it has faced country blocks, investigations and lawsuits over sexualized deepfakes, and Canada's Privacy Commissioner found in June 2026 that X Corp. and xAI broke federal privacy law.
Character.AI is a chatbot app where people talk to characters other users create, made by Character Technologies. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 12, 2026, and Disney bid 20 million USD for a license to some assets; the app runs during the sale and will be wound down if no bid keeps it going.
Chat and agent tools are the AI products you talk to or hand a job: assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, writing tools, coding agents that change real code, and personal agents that act in a browser or in your apps. Each type runs its own test set, so a coding agent is graded on finished tasks and an assistant on its answers.
Everyday questions, reasoning, factual accuracy, long documents and files, image understanding, memory, and what the paid plan adds.
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Following a brief, keeping a voice, factual accuracy, long drafts, editing your text without flattening it, writing that does not read like a machine.
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Finishing real tasks in real repositories, code that passes the tests, reading a large codebase, asking before risky commands, cost per task.
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Multi-step tasks done end to end, browsing and using apps, asking before it pays or sends anything, reliability over repeated runs, cost.
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