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What are the main Artificial Intelligence chatbots?

We present you a list of 17 alternatives to ChatGPTa series of artificial intelligence chatbots with which you can interact to ask them all kinds of questions or ask them to perform various tasks. Although ChatGPT is the best-known chatbot, it is not the only one available.

We’ve tried to keep most of these AI-based chatbots generic, like ChatGPT, although we couldn’t help but include some that are designed for specific tasks. Even if you are a cat lover, you will find a surprise at the end.

These are the AIs we have collected and consider the most important. As we always say in these types of articles, if you think we have left out something important, we invite you to share your suggestion in the comments section. Thus, all readers will be able to benefit from the knowledge of our community.

Microsoft Copilot

Copilot is Microsoft’s artificial intelligence based on GPT-4. Essentially, it is a free version of ChatGPT Plus that only requires a Microsoft account. In addition, it is connected to the Internet, which allows you to make queries that require connection.

The answers are usually not as extensive as those on ChatGPT, but they are more up-to-date. Plus, it comes with built-in DALL-E, which means you can ask it to draw drawings too. All of this is completely free.

Google Gemini

Gemini is Google’s artificial intelligence chat, based on the LaMDA model. It was initially called Google Bard, but is now known as Google Gemini. It is one of the best alternatives to ChatGPT, with similar functions and always connected to the Internet like Copilot, although it cannot create images.

You can generate all kinds of textual content and chat with it. In addition, you have particular options such as sharing a response by generating a link to it. You can also modify it, with buttons to make it shorter, longer, simpler, professional or informal.

FLAME 2

LLaMA is the conversational artificial intelligence created by Meta, and LLaMA 2 is its latest version. It’s open source and you can download it to your computer to use locally, or try it online on sites like Hugging Face.

This model stands out for improving the way of reasoning your responses and interacting with the user. It does not offer an Internet connection, so its knowledge lasts until March 2023. Its main problem is that it is in the development phase and does not have an official website, so you have to settle for those created by third parties.

LightIA

LuzIA is an artificial intelligence chatbot designed to be used on WhatsApp, allowing you to have chats with it. You can send it written texts or voice notes with your prompts, and in addition to written responses, it can also draw things and transcribe audios.

Although it is not the only one, it is one of the first and best artificial intelligence bots for messaging applications, and it is also available on Telegram. You can use this AI both on mobile and in the desktop versions of these two messaging apps.

POE

Poe is not an alternative to ChatGPT, but rather offers several alternatives in one. It is an artificial intelligence system from Quora that gives you access to multiple AI languages, from GPT-4 to many other lesser-known ones. You just need to register on their website.

Once registered, you will have access to different bots, each one being a different AI. Some are official and others are user creations to adapt artificial intelligence to specific needs.

YouChat

YouChat is a conversational chat based on ChatGPT, with the option to use GPT-4 in exchange for a subscription. Created by the search engine You.com, it is more of a conversational search engine with artificial intelligence connected to the Internet.

It has many similarities with Bing Chat, since it adds the sources used to the results. Additionally, this chat learns from its interactions with you to improve results and can integrate with apps and services like Reddit and Wikipedia to personalize responses.

AnonChatGPT

AnonChatGPT is a model based on GPT-3, a slightly outdated version. It allows you to use ChatGPT without needing an account, making everything quite anonymous.

The idea is good, although it is a website with advertising and shares with ChatGPT the disadvantage of not being connected to the Internet. You can only have one conversation, and previous conversations are not saved in any history. Also, it doesn’t seem to be as accurate as others.

Perplexity AI

Perplexity is another artificial intelligence chatbot connected to the Internet, allowing you to ask general and other more current queries. When you generate a response based on Internet content, it also shows the link to the sources used.

The biggest advantage of this AI is that it does not require registration to use it, and like ChatGPT, it is powered by OpenAI technology. However, to use more advanced models like GPT-4, you will need to register and use a paid account.

Character AI

Character AI is a page where you can create chatbots using AI and interact with those created by other users. It allows you to create characters so that the AI ​​responds with a particular personality.

It allows you to create a personalized alternative to ChatGPT, although here the focus is more on the entertainment of the different characters that can be created. In its library you will find everything from AIs based on real people to more fantasy ones.

Aria

Opera Aria is an artificial intelligence chat built into the Opera browser, based on OpenAI’s GPT technology. It is available in both desktop and Android versions. You can ask questions, ask them to explain things to you and practically everything you can also do with ChatGPT.

GPT4All

GPT4All literally means GPT for everyone, and it is a program that you can download on any computer with Windows, GNU/Linux and macOS to have a local GPT model. You can download different models with different behaviors and response types.

All this being an open source project and totally free. First you install the program, and then you choose which model you want to download. Once you do, you can now have your own ChatGPT on your computer.

Socratic

Socratic is a ChatGPT alternative specifically trained to help students learn and do homework in major subjects, from physics and chemistry to literature and poetry. Use Google image recognition to identify mathematical formulas and help you with the answer.

In this case, the AI ​​does not have a web version, but you will have to use it directly through your mobile phone by installing one of its official applications. Socratic includes most middle and high school subjects.

chatsonic

Chatsonic is an AI specialized in creating journalistic, marketing or research content, in addition to other professional fields such as customer service. You must register to use it, and although it is a paid service, you can try it for free.

Despite their professional orientation, you can also ask them more generic questions. In addition, it has options such as dictating your prompts by voice or generating images using artificial intelligence.

Jasper Chat

Jasper Chat is an AI chat created to help content creators and professionals. It has a free starter trial, but then you’ll have to subscribe and pay if you want specific features like creating content with its SEO mode or having a higher character limit.

It specializes in creating texts, and to do so, you first have to choose the type you want to create, and it will make its suggestions. You can also add a text that you have written and translate it, or make modifications taking into account your way of writing. He can even create images with the ideas you’ve given him.

StableLM

StableLM is an open source ChatGPT alternative, created by Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion AI for generating images. It is a new language model trained in a very different way from GPT, and which is currently in the development phase.

Being in the development phase, its answers are not yet up to par with the competition, and quite a few things are invented. However, it is only a first step that will interest Open Source lovers, since its entire code is on its GitHub profile. To try it, you need to access it through Hugging Face, click on Deploy and click on the option to launch it in Spaces.

Claude

Claude is one of ChatGPT’s main competitors, and is always being updated to outperform GPT in each new generation. Above all, what it usually surpasses GPT in is the tokens, in the amount of text it can generate, although that does not mean that it is better in everything, and in our tests it seemed quite cautious and formal.

This chatbot shares some limitations with ChatGPT, such as not being connected and not being able to say data such as date or time. Its biggest advantage is the length of the texts it accepts, and its disadvantage is that it still requires an invitation to try it. Of course, you can try it within Poe whenever you want and for free in its first version.

CatGPT

And we end up with CatGPT, which is not a typo but a real chatbot. It’s based on the same model as ChatGPT, but it’s been trained to make it look like you’re talking to a cat instead of a person when interacting with the AI.

It can respond to you with meows, purrs and cat GIFs. It won’t help you do your homework, but it will surely make you laugh occasionally.