The stack toward AGI

The products actually moving the needle toward AGI, picked by the editors. Filter by category, or search by name or maker.

Editor's picks

One standout per layer of the stack: assistant, coding, research, agents, media and safety.

OpenAI · Assistant

ChatGPT

The mass-market on-ramp to frontier models: a general assistant for writing, reasoning and code.

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Anysphere · Coding

Cursor

AI-native code editor that edits across an entire repository.

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Perplexity AI · Research

Perplexity

Answer engine that cites its sources as it searches the live web.

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Cognition · Agents

Devin

Autonomous software agent that plans and ships multi-step tasks.

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Tool
Category
Link

ChatGPT

OpenAI

The mass-market on-ramp to frontier models: a general assistant for writing, reasoning and code.

Assistant
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Claude

Anthropic

Long-context assistant strong at careful reasoning, analysis and software work.

Assistant
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Cursor

Anysphere

AI-native code editor that edits across an entire repository.

Coding
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Gemini

Google DeepMind

Multimodal assistant wired into Google search and workspace.

Assistant
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Perplexity

Perplexity AI

Answer engine that cites its sources as it searches the live web.

Research
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Inline completion and chat inside the editor.

Coding
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Hugging Face

Hugging Face

The open hub for models, datasets and demos.

Research
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Devin

Cognition

Autonomous software agent that plans and ships multi-step tasks.

Agents
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ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs

Frontier voice synthesis and dubbing.

Media
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Epoch AI

Epoch AI

Tracks the compute, data and cost trends that drive AI progress. One of the sources this site reads.

Research
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LangChain

LangChain

Framework and tooling for building and observing LLM agents.

Agents
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METR

METR

Independent evaluations of frontier models' autonomous capabilities.

Safety
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