At a glance
Conversational AI assistants — like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini — sit at the centre of most AI workflows today. They answer questions, draft text, summarise documents, write code, and increasingly orchestrate other tools on your behalf. The differences between them have narrowed on raw reasoning, but widened on cost, context window, safety, and the surrounding ecosystem.
Because a chat assistant often becomes the first point of contact for every AI-assisted task in your day, picking the wrong one has compounding effects. Switching assistants mid-project means rewriting prompts, re-uploading context, and possibly losing conversation history. It pays to get this choice right up front.