Chatbots & Assistants

Ranked by momentum — measured, not bought.

1
Anthropic Claude↗ Rising
Anthropic's conversational AI assistant for writing, coding, analysis, and research, noted for long-context reasoning.
Score 88.62
Why it's rising
Anthropic Claude's engagement has increased 300% over the past week, with recent Hacker News activity showing 18 stories generating 2478 points and 1964 comments.
2
Meta AI↗ Rising
Meta's free AI assistant for chat, search, and image generation across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and the web.
Score 78.47
Why it's rising
Meta AI's engagement has increased 300% over the past week.
3
Google Gemini↗ Rising
Google's multimodal AI assistant for conversation, research, coding, and image generation, built on the Gemini models.
Score 71.33
Why it's rising
Google Gemini's engagement increased 65% over the past week, with recent discussion on Hacker News generating 19 stories totaling 1032 points and 716 comments.
4
DeepSeek↗ Rising
Conversational AI assistant from the Chinese lab DeepSeek, built on its open-weight large language models.
Score 69.77
Why it's rising
DeepSeek's engagement has increased 250% over the past week, with recent Hacker News activity showing 20 stories, 477 points, and 250 comments.
5
Grok AI↗ Rising
xAI's conversational assistant with real-time search, voice, and image and video generation, integrated with X.
Score 60.15
Why it's rising
Grok AI's engagement has increased 119% over the past week, with recent activity on Hacker News including 8 stories that garnered 266 points and 106 comments.
6
ChatGPT↘ Cooling
OpenAI's conversational AI assistant for writing, coding, analysis, and image generation; the most widely used chatbot.
Score 49.07
Why it's cooling
ChatGPT's engagement has declined 29% over the past week.
7
Microsoft Copilot↘ Cooling
Microsoft's AI assistant for chat, search, writing, and image generation, integrated across Windows, Microsoft 365, and Edge.
Score 29.37
Why it's cooling
Microsoft Copilot's engagement has declined 34% over the past week.
8
PerplexityWatchlist — not enough signal yet
AI answer engine that responds to questions with cited, real-time sources from the web.
Score 22.88
What the data shows
Perplexity has generated 3 stories on Hacker News over the past 7 days with limited engagement.

Watchlist — building baseline

Not enough cross-source signal yet for a score or a trend. 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.