Best AI Tools 2026

NotebookLM is Google's AI-powered research assistant, famous for its viral Audio Overview feature that transforms any document into podcast-style conversations. With 48M monthly visits and powered by the latest Gemini 3 model.

Claude Code is Anthropic's official AI-powered command line tool for developers, providing powerful code interaction and software development capabilities.

Event-driven script execution system in Claude Code that automatically runs shell commands in response to specific events, enabling workflow automation, quality gates, and custom integrations.

Package and distribution system for Claude Code that bundles Skills, Hooks, MCP servers, and custom commands into installable modules, enabling team-wide workflow standardization and ecosystem growth.

Modular, reusable AI workflows that extend Claude Code's capabilities through custom skill definitions, enabling developers to create specialized AI modes for specific tasks.

Multi-agent architecture in Claude Code that enables parallel task execution through specialized AI workers with isolated context windows, overcoming single-agent limitations for complex operations.

Manus is the world's first general-purpose autonomous AI agent capable of independently completing the entire development workflow from research and coding to deployment. Created by the Monica team, it was acquired by Meta for $2 billion and has 13.9M monthly visits.

Zapier is the industry-leading automation platform with 7,000+ app integrations, offering free plans with 100 tasks/month, AI Copilot, unlimited Zaps, and new features like Tables and Interfaces for building complete workflow solutions.

Kimi is China's leading AI chatbot developed by Moonshot AI, featuring an industry-leading 256K token context window, 36M+ monthly active users, and a $4.3B valuation. With affordable API pricing and superior coding performance, it's becoming the go-to ChatGPT alternative in China.

Leading AI research company providing cutting-edge language models, image generation, speech recognition, and multimodal AI capabilities.

Anthropic's most intelligent model combining maximum capability with practical performance, featuring unique effort parameter control and exceptional long-horizon coding efficiency.

The world's best coding model and strongest agent builder, featuring state-of-the-art performance on software engineering benchmarks with 200k-1M token context window.

Obsidian is a powerful, privacy-first knowledge management app that stores notes locally as Markdown files, featuring bidirectional linking, graph views, and an extensive plugin ecosystem for building your second brain.

Google Antigravity is an AI-powered, agent-first IDE built on VS Code that enables developers to delegate complex coding tasks to autonomous AI agents powered by Gemini 3 and Claude models.

Cursor is an AI-native code editor built on VS Code, deeply integrating AI capabilities into editing, completion, and refactoring workflows to boost developer productivity by 40%+.

An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Google's Gemini directly into your terminal, featuring a 1M token context window and extensible tool ecosystem.

SiliconFlow is a high-performance AI inference platform providing access to 200+ optimized LLMs and multimodal models. With 6M+ users and 100B+ daily tokens, it delivers 2.3× faster inference and 32% lower latency at competitive pricing.

Leading Chinese AI company providing multimodal models including text, image, video, and audio generation with industry-leading context windows up to 4 million tokens.

Affordable AI coding subscription service powered by GLM-4.7, offering access to 10+ mainstream coding tools at just $3/month with industry-leading performance.

AI-powered IDE that transforms coding workflow, collaborating with you to ship faster with intelligent code generation and Builder mode

An open-source multilingual multimodal chat model from Zhipu AI with advanced thinking capabilities, exceptional coding performance, and enhanced UI generation.

n8n is a fair-code workflow automation platform with 400+ integrations, offering unlimited workflows for free self-hosting or cloud plans starting at $20/month, featuring AI capabilities and execution-based pricing.

Nano Banana is Google DeepMind's viral AI image generation and editing tool powered by Gemini models, delivering photorealistic images in seconds with industry-leading text accuracy and character consistency.

Dify is a production-ready open-source agentic workflow development platform, integrating visual workflows, RAG pipelines, agent capabilities, and model management. With 125K+ GitHub Stars, it helps developers rapidly build AI-native applications.