
ChatGPT has kicked off an AI revolution. Companies from Google to Microsoft, Amazon and Meta had all been working on AI projects for years, but the floodgates opened when OpenAI dropped ChatGPT as a free preview for anyone to use in late 2022.
Since then, we’ve seen many competitors and copycats come out to try and capture a piece of the AI market. Some are more focused on tasks and coding while some are purely conversational. Some are open source, some are actually multiple chatbots in one location and there are many more. If you prefer not to use ChatGPT — or specifically the free version that OpenAI has available for everyone — there are a fair amount of options.