Top AI Chatbots to Watch in 2024
ChatGPT was the first widely used AI chatbot, but now the competition is getting fierce. Other models are joining the scene, offering longer conversational memory, empathetic responses, and grounding in your data — among many other possibilities.
Allow me to save you a dozen Google searches. I spent time talking to some of the best AI chatbots to see how they measure up. You’ll find a bit of everything here, including ChatGPT alternatives that’ll help you create content, AI chatbots that can search the web, and a few just-for-fun options. You’ll even see how you can build your own AI chatbot if you don’t find what you’re looking for here.
It’s likely that between the time I write this and the time you read it, there will be even more AI chatbots on the market, but for now, here are the most interesting ones to watch.
The Best AI chatbots
What to Look for in an AI Chatbot
Understanding how ChatGPT works helps in evaluating AI chatbots. Created by OpenAI, ChatGPT uses models like GPT-4 to interpret prompts and provide conversational responses. The app manages features like saving conversation history, while the AI model handles input interpretation and response generation. Many AI chatbots use OpenAI’s GPT models, but app developers can configure responses differently.
Key considerations include:
- Accuracy and Responsiveness: Ensures coherent and natural conversation.
- Easy Access: No advanced setup is required.
- Chat Experience: Prefer conversational AI chatbots.
- Extra Features: Multi-language support, internet connectivity.
Here’s a list of the best AI chatbots based on these criteria.
1 Simplified AI Chatbot (Free)
Are you tired of spending hours sifting through search results trying to find the right information? Or struggling to find the perfect image for your marketing campaign? Look no further than Simplified’s AI Chat, your go-to conversational AI assistant.
AI Chat is among the best ChatGPT alternatives to improve your marketing efforts! This AI chatbot can understand natural language and generate human-like responses to multiple questions. It is a powerful AI chatbot that uses advanced technology to converse with users just like a human would. It’s like having a smart assistant at your fingertips 24/7, ready to generate content, answer questions, and simplify your workflow.
Forget about wading through pages of irrelevant search results and enjoy quick, factual answers. But that’s not all — AI Chat comes loaded with unique features to make your life easier.
Features:
- High-Quality Answers: Trained on a vast database of Google results, ensuring that all answers generated are high-quality and relevant.
- Image Generation: Generating images is as simple as describing what you need in natural language. Need a stock photo for your latest marketing campaign? Simply describe what you’re looking for, and AI Chat will generate it in seconds.
- Personalized Avatars: Allows you to choose a personalized avatar to answer your questions from a specific point of view. Get the advice you need from an expert in the field.
- Voice Commands: Responds to voice commands! Speak to AI Chat as you would a friend, and it will respond just like Siri. Whether you need to set a reminder or make a phone call, AI Chat is there to help.
2. ChatGPT
ChatGPT is the original AI chatbot. After its late 2022 release, it became incredibly popular in 2023 and brought AI back into the spotlight. It’s very simple to use: start a conversation by writing your prompt at the bottom of the screen. As the output comes back, a new entry is created on the left-side menu, so you can keep all your threads separate and come back to them later. If any of these is particularly interesting, you can share a link to it and show it to others (and they can start where you left off).
Even though it sometimes puts out factual errors while displaying total confidence — what experts call hallucinations — ChatGPT is still the industry leader for now. It remembers what you’ve said within each conversation, using it as context to provide more accurate output as it moves forward. It can accept text commands, helping you format and customize the output. And it’s extremely flexible, tackling tasks in any discipline with an acceptable level of accuracy — just be sure you fact-check. You can share your conversations with others and add custom instructions to customize the bot even further.
With the release of GPT-4, ChatGPT became even more exciting. It’s now using a multimodal model, which means you can do everything from text-to-image prompting, data analysis, and voice conversations — and it’s impressively fast.
You can even build your custom bot with unique instructions and data using GPTs. These bots can carry out straightforward tasks, simplify processes, or do zany things for the fun of it. When you add Zapier’s AI Actions to it, you can access thousands of other apps from your GPT.
You can also do the opposite, building ChatGPT into your existing workflows with Zapier’s direct ChatGPT integration. No matter where you are, you can use ChatGPT to summarize, generate replies, or anything else you can dream up. Here are a few examples.
3. Claude
Are you tired of spending hours sifting through search results trying to find the right information? Or struggling to find the perfect image for your marketing campaign? Look no further than Simplified’s AI Chat, your go-to conversational AI assistant.
AI Chat is among the best ChatGPT alternatives to improve your marketing efforts! This AI chatbot can understand natural language and generate human-like responses to multiple questions. It is a powerful AI chatbot that uses advanced technology to converse with users just like a human would. It’s like having a smart assistant at your fingertips 24/7, ready to generate content, answer questions, and simplify your workflow.
Forget about wading through pages of irrelevant search results and enjoy quick, factual answers. But that’s not all — AI Chat comes loaded with unique features to make your life easier.
Features:
- High-Quality Answers: Trained on a vast database of Google results, ensuring that all answers generated are high-quality and relevant.
- Image Generation: Generating images is as simple as describing what you need in natural language. Need a stock photo for your latest marketing campaign? Simply describe what you’re looking for, and AI Chat will generate it in seconds.
- Personalized Avatars: Allows you to choose a personalized avatar to answer your questions from a specific point of view. Get the advice you need from an expert in the field.
- Voice Commands: Respond to voice commands! Speak to AI Chat as you would a friend, and it will respond just like Siri. Whether you need to set a reminder or make a phone call, AI Chat is there to help.
Jumping from the bottom of this list in my last update straight to second position now, meet Claude. Anthropic’s chatbot aims to be helpful, harmless, and honest. The conversation flows naturally, with responses that are straight to the point, without lengthy introductions and conclusions like ChatGPT sometimes prefers using.
What’s impressive about it is the length of its context window. This is the fancy name for the conversation memory that chatbots are equipped with: it helps it remember what topic you’re talking about, past questions you asked, and how it answered. This feature is what makes answering questions like “Can you summarize everything we’ve talked about into a key takeaway?” possible to answer.
Where ChatGPT can only remember up to 24,000 words worth of conversation, Claude 3 takes this to 150,000 words. Since there’s a file upload feature, this AI model is great for summarizing and asking questions based on long documents. Just make sure to keep the entire word count — questions and answers combined — below the limit.
The free plan is limited to 25 messages per day. You can unlock more by subscribing to the pro plan, going for $20 per month. Once you remove that cap, you can integrate Claude with Zapier to automate your tech stack. Learn more about how to automate Claude, or get started with one of these pre-made workflows.
Early in 2023, Microsoft increased its investment in OpenAI and began integrating AI features into its products. One of the standout developments was Bing’s AI chatting experience. When you enter a prompt, Bing AI searches the internet, processes the results, and presents a reply with the relevant links.
Key Features:
- Image Results in Chat: Bing AI can show image results directly in the chat window, though it often provides a list of image links rather than a gallery.
- DALL·E 3 Integration: Bing AI is connected to OpenAI’s DALL·E 3, allowing you to generate AI images. Simply state your prompt, and the AI will create the image. You can ask to regenerate with new instructions if needed.
- Microsoft Edge Integration: Fully integrated into Microsoft Edge, Bing AI offers tools like generating text in the sidebar and pasting it with one click into any web page input field. This is particularly useful for tasks like generating emails and inserting them into the compose window.
- Conversation Memory: Bing AI allows you to review past conversations by clicking on each one on the right side of the screen.
- Behavioral Quirks: Sometimes, Bing AI may end conversations abruptly. If this happens, simply start a new thread to continue.
5. Google Gemini
Google Gemini: Your AI-Powered Google Companion
Google has been in the AI race for a long time, with a set of AI features already implemented across its product lineup. After an epic hiccup during the initial product demo, Gemini (formerly Bard) is really growing on me.
Why Gemini Stands Out:
- Internet Connectivity: Gemini can connect to the internet to find sources, even offering a handy button that lets you Google it yourself. Search results can show images directly in the chat window.
- Prompt Editing and Drafts: You can edit your prompt after you’ve sent it and choose from up to three drafts of each output, allowing you to pick the best one.
- Conversation History: Gemini keeps track of your conversation history, and you can share your conversations with others.
- Deep Integration with Google Products: Gemini integrates deeply with your Google account and other Google services such as Hotels, Flights, and YouTube. You can search your Gmail, summarize files in Google Drive, and check real-time flight and hotel prices while planning a trip. It even helps with packing lists.
- Conversational Nature: Compared to ChatGPT, Gemini feels more conversational and less oriented toward text commands.
To read more about their differences, check out this direct comparison: ChatGPT vs. Google Gemini.
With Zapier’s Google Vertex AI and Google AI Studio integrations, you can access Gemini from all the apps you use at work. Here are a few examples to get you started.
