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Original guides to the services and vendors in a16z’s seventh consumer AI inventory, with practical uses, pricing boundaries and sources you can inspect.

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a16z seventh edition: 110 deduplicated entries from 150 ranked slots. Similarweb web visits and Sensor Tower mobile active users refer to August 2026. YipitData covers observed U.S. consumer-card spending; August is article context, not a month printed on its chart. Web/mobile chart geography is not explicitly supplied. OpenAI and Anthropic vendor spending ranks navigate through ChatGPT and Claude with vendor scope retained. No chart image, article prose or unreported numerical volumes are reproduced.

Web visits, mobile monthly active users and observed U.S. consumer-card spend describe different activity and sampling frames. Rankings are not evidence of product quality. Spend labels may refer to vendors rather than individual apps.

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General-purpose assistant / service / checked 2026-10-05

ChatGPT

People who want one adaptable assistant and are willing to review its work.

  • Web visits #1
  • Mobile monthly active users #1
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #1
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General-purpose assistant / service / checked 2026-10-05

Gemini

People who want a broad assistant, particularly those already using Google apps and comfortable reviewing connected-app permissions.

  • Web visits #2
  • Mobile monthly active users #3
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General assistant / service / checked 2026-10-05

Claude

Knowledge workers, independent learners and developers who want a flexible assistant and will review its conclusions before relying on them.

  • Web visits #3
  • Mobile monthly active users #12
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #2
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Design and visual communication / service / checked 2026-10-05

Canva

Useful for small teams, educators and operators who need readable visual material without building every layout from scratch.

  • Web visits #4
  • Mobile monthly active users #4
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #3
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General assistant / service / checked 2026-10-05

DeepSeek

DeepSeek combines a consumer conversational assistant with a separate developer model platform.

  • Web visits #5
  • Mobile monthly active users #14
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General-purpose assistant / service / checked 2026-10-05

Grok

Curious general users and researchers who want to compare answers across assistants.

  • Web visits #6
  • Mobile monthly active users #19
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Workspace and knowledge management / service / checked 2026-10-05

Notion

Individuals organizing projects and teams that already keep reliable, permissioned knowledge in a Notion workspace.

  • Web visits #7
  • Mobile monthly active users #28
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #17
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Character conversation / service / checked 2026-10-05

Character.AI

Adults exploring storytelling, dialogue and low-stakes role-play, with attention to current age rules and healthy boundaries around simulated relationships.

  • Web visits #8
  • Mobile monthly active users #41
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Research and learning / service / checked 2026-10-05

Gemini Notebook

Fits researchers, independent learners and teams working through a bounded collection of documents rather than an unstructured chat history.

  • Web visits #9
  • Mobile monthly active users #35
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General assistant / service / checked 2026-10-05

Doubao

Doubao is the ByteDance-associated AI assistant identified by its official Chinese-language site and current service agreements.

  • Web visits #10
  • Mobile monthly active users #7
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Search and research assistant / service / checked 2026-10-05

Perplexity

Readers, analysts, and students who want a fast research orientation and are willing to open the cited material.

  • Web visits #12
  • Mobile monthly active users #25
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #9
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Creative assets and generation / service / checked 2026-10-05

Freepik

Designers, marketers and small creative teams assembling visual concepts from licensed stock, generated assets and editing tools.

  • Web visits #13
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App building / service / checked 2026-10-05

Lovable

Fits founders, product managers and small teams willing to review requirements, test behavior and obtain technical help where necessary.

  • Web visits #14
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #8
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Design / service / checked 2026-10-05

Figma

Figma is a collaborative design platform whose suite includes interface design, FigJam whiteboards, presentations and AI-assisted creation.

  • Web visits #15
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #15
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General-purpose assistant / service / checked 2026-10-05

Copilot

Individuals who already use Microsoft products and want to assess the incremental AI benefit.

  • Web visits #16
  • Mobile monthly active users #6
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AI browser and search / service / checked 2026-10-05

Quark

Chinese-language users seeking search, reading, file handling, and cloud storage within a connected product environment.

  • Web visits #17
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Experimental AI hub / service / checked 2026-10-05

Google Labs

Curious adults, creative practitioners and product teams who can tolerate changing interfaces, eligibility requirements and uncertain long-term availability.

  • Web visits #18
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Music creation / service / checked 2026-10-05

Suno

Useful for songwriters, video makers and learners exploring composition without assuming every experiment can be commercially distributed.

  • Web visits #19
  • Mobile monthly active users #47
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #7
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General-purpose assistant / service / checked 2026-10-05

Kimi

People comparing document-oriented assistants, including Chinese-language users and technically curious knowledge workers.

  • Web visits #21
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Video editing and creation / service / checked 2026-10-05

CapCut

Creators and small teams producing short videos who want accessible editing tools and are prepared to inspect every export.

  • Web visits #22
  • Mobile monthly active users #2
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Productivity suite / service / checked 2026-10-05

Superhuman

People and teams doing substantial writing, email and document collaboration who want assistance close to existing work surfaces.

  • Web visits #23
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #4
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General-purpose AI assistant / service / checked 2026-10-05

Qwen

Fits curious learners, writers and technically minded users comparing assistants on clearly defined, low-risk tasks.

  • Web visits #24
  • Mobile monthly active users #46
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Speech generation / service / checked 2026-10-05

ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs provides tools for generating and processing speech and other media.

  • Web visits #25
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #10
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Model comparison and evaluation / service / checked 2026-10-05

Arena

Adults learning how model responses differ or designing a more systematic evaluation.

  • Web visits #26
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Writing assistance / service / checked 2026-10-05

QuillBot

Writers, multilingual professionals, and learners who want sentence-level feedback while retaining responsibility for the final text.

  • Web visits #27
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #32
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AI creative production / service / checked 2026-10-05

Higgsfield

Creative directors, marketers and video makers who want to explore visual concepts and have time to review and iterate on generated material.

  • Web visits #28
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #5
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AI model and developer platform / service / checked 2026-10-05

Hugging Face

Best for developers, researchers and self-directed learners comfortable examining model cards, licenses and technical limitations.

  • Web visits #29
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #39
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Transcription / service / checked 2026-10-05

TurboScribe

TurboScribe turns uploaded audio and video into text, with speaker recognition, translation and document or subtitle exports.

  • Web visits #30
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General-purpose and social assistant / service / checked 2026-10-05

Meta AI

People exploring casual assistance, creative ideas or voice interaction within Meta’s ecosystem.

  • Web visits #31
  • Mobile monthly active users #18
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Fictional character chat / service / checked 2026-10-05

Emochi

Adults interested in fictional dialogue, character improvisation, and clearly bounded recreational storytelling.

  • Web visits #32
  • Mobile monthly active users #50
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General assistant and builder / service / checked 2026-10-05

Z.ai

Independent learners, general knowledge workers and technically curious makers evaluating an additional assistant on public or synthetic material.

  • Web visits #33
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Presentations and visual documents / service / checked 2026-10-05

Gamma

Fits consultants, educators, founders and small teams creating explanatory material that someone will still edit and fact-check.

  • Web visits #34
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #30
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Coding assistant / service / checked 2026-10-05

Cursor

Cursor is an AI-focused software development environment with agents and code-assistance features.

  • Web visits #35
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Product photography and image editing / service / checked 2026-10-05

Photoroom

Sellers, catalog operators and small creative teams preparing images of products they are authorized to market.

  • Web visits #36
  • Mobile monthly active users #45
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #38
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Privacy-oriented general chat / service / checked 2026-10-05

Duck.ai

People seeking straightforward general AI chat who place importance on published data-handling commitments and minimal account friction.

  • Web visits #37
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Task-oriented AI agent / service / checked 2026-10-05

Manus

Operators, researchers and small teams with well-defined tasks, bounded inputs and a human available to inspect important intermediate and final results.

  • Web visits #38
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #19
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AI-content detection and writing tools / service / checked 2026-10-05

ZeroGPT

Most appropriate for low-stakes experimentation and editorial process discussions, with careful human review of any consequential interpretation.

  • Web visits #39
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Model gateway / service / checked 2026-10-05

OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides a shared access layer for models served by multiple providers, with both chat and API entry points.

  • Web visits #40
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #13
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Creative image and video editing / service / checked 2026-10-05

Picsart

Creators and small marketing teams producing varied visual drafts from licensed or original material.

  • Web visits #41
  • Mobile monthly active users #8
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Unresolved identity / service / checked 2026-10-05

SEMART.AI

Unresolved chart identity / no confirmed product link

Readers checking the source ranking; this entry is not ready to guide a purchase, account creation, or workplace deployment.

  • Web visits #42
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Multi-model assistant / service / checked 2026-10-05

Venice

Adults comparing model families and creative workflows who are willing to read model-specific handling, content rules and usage conditions.

  • Web visits #43
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Agent-assisted development / service / checked 2026-10-05

Google Antigravity

Fits developers and technical learners who understand repositories, permissions, tests and the consequences of running generated code.

  • Web visits #44
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AI app building / service / checked 2026-10-05

Base44

Founders, operations teams and learners prototyping bounded tools with synthetic data.

  • Web visits #46
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Clinical literature and evidence search / service / checked 2026-10-05

OpenEvidence

Eligible healthcare professionals who can critically appraise evidence and use the service within their institution’s approved practices.

  • Web visits #47
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AI application development / service / checked 2026-10-05

Replit

Founders, operators, learners and developers building prototypes or small tools with someone responsible for reviewing code and deployment behavior.

  • Web visits #48
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #6
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Image and video generation / service / checked 2026-10-05

Kling AI

Fits creative teams, filmmakers and marketers exploring short scenes, storyboards and product concepts before committing to production.

  • Web visits #49
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #26
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AI workspace / service / checked 2026-10-05

Genspark

Genspark presents an AI workspace spanning research, documents, slides, spreadsheets and other creation tools.

  • Web visits #50
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #40
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Photo management; identity unresolved / service / checked 2026-10-05

AI Gallery

Unresolved chart identity / no confirmed product link

Readers investigating the ranked label; not yet a purchase or installation recommendation.

  • Mobile monthly active users #5
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General-purpose mobile assistant / service / checked 2026-10-05

Dola

People seeking a mobile-first assistant for everyday writing, explanations, and creative experiments, subject to local availability.

  • Mobile monthly active users #9
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AI-enabled browser / service / checked 2026-10-05

Microsoft Edge

People who want assistance close to webpages and browser tabs, especially when already using Microsoft accounts or services.

  • Mobile monthly active users #10
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Local services; chart identity unresolved / service / checked 2026-10-05

Meituan

Unresolved chart identity / no confirmed product link

Potentially relevant to people studying local-service discovery and commerce in Meituan’s supported markets; product selection needs identity confirmation first.

  • Mobile monthly active users #11
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Identity unresolved / service / checked 2026-10-05

Yandex

Unresolved chart identity / no confirmed product link

The chart label Yandex does not establish a unique mobile application.

  • Mobile monthly active users #13
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AI-enabled browser / service / checked 2026-10-05

QQ浏览器

Chinese-reading users evaluating an AI browser and willing to check region-specific availability and permissions.

  • Mobile monthly active users #15
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Digital notes and PDF annotation / service / checked 2026-10-05

Goodnotes

People who think on a page, annotate PDFs, and want searchable, organized notes for study or professional reference.

  • Mobile monthly active users #16
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Mobile video editing / service / checked 2026-10-05

Edits, an Instagram app

Creators and small marketing teams producing short mobile-first videos from footage they own or have permission to use.

  • Mobile monthly active users #17
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Photography and image editing / service / checked 2026-10-05

Adobe Lightroom

Fits photographers, content teams and independent creators who need deliberate image adjustments and a consistent way to manage photo collections.

  • Mobile monthly active users #20
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General assistant / service / checked 2026-10-05

Seekee

Seekee is a mobile-oriented AI search and assistant product.

  • Mobile monthly active users #21
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Photo and video editing / service / checked 2026-10-05

VN

Video creators who want to assemble and refine short pieces while retaining manual editorial control.

  • Mobile monthly active users #22
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Photo enhancement and generation / service / checked 2026-10-05

Remini

People improving personal images or exploring synthetic portraits who can inspect changes and obtain permission from everyone depicted.

  • Mobile monthly active users #23
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Search and information app / service / checked 2026-10-05

Baidu AI Search

Chinese-language readers and researchers who want to explore Baidu’s information ecosystem and can assess source quality and regional differences.

  • Mobile monthly active users #24
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Photo and video editing / service / checked 2026-10-05

Meitu

Fits mobile creators and casual editors who want quick visual treatments and are comfortable reviewing their effects on accuracy and representation.

  • Mobile monthly active users #26
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Keyboard / service / checked 2026-10-05

Facemoji

Facemoji combines keyboard personalization with emoji, fonts and AI-assisted content tools.

  • Mobile monthly active users #27
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Video enhancement and retouching / service / checked 2026-10-05

Wink

Creators improving authorized footage who can inspect artifacts and retain an untouched original.

  • Mobile monthly active users #29
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Mobile photo editing / service / checked 2026-10-05

Hypic

Mobile creators making social images, collages, and visual drafts who will review the result and respect the subject’s consent.

  • Mobile monthly active users #30
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Design and content creation / service / checked 2026-10-05

Adobe Express

Small businesses, communicators, educators and non-specialist designers creating repeatable branded materials without a complex production pipeline.

  • Mobile monthly active users #31
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Search and discovery / service / checked 2026-10-05

Microsoft Bing

Useful for people finding public information, checking sources or starting a visual search from an everyday object or image.

  • Mobile monthly active users #32
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Video editing / service / checked 2026-10-05

YouCut

YouCut is a mobile video-editing application with an AI-branded toolset in its current U.S.

  • Mobile monthly active users #33
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Mobile photo editing / service / checked 2026-10-05

Polish

People making occasional mobile photo edits and simple visual compositions from their own images.

  • Mobile monthly active users #34
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Translation / service / checked 2026-10-05

Papago

Travelers, language learners, and professionals dealing with supported languages who can seek human review for consequential communication.

  • Mobile monthly active users #36
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Study assistance / service / checked 2026-10-05

Gauth

Independent learners and students using permitted study support, with adult oversight and school-policy checks wherever age or classroom requirements apply.

  • Mobile monthly active users #37
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Translation / service / checked 2026-10-05

Hi Translate

Fits travelers, multilingual readers and teams evaluating low-stakes communication support for a specific language pair.

  • Mobile monthly active users #38
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Photo editing / service / checked 2026-10-05

BeautyPlus

BeautyPlus offers photo-editing and creation tools across its mobile app and website.

  • Mobile monthly active users #39
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Portrait photography and styling / service / checked 2026-10-05

BeautyCam

Adults exploring consensual portrait styling or creative camera effects while retaining control over presentation.

  • Mobile monthly active users #40
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Camera effects and portrait editing / service / checked 2026-10-05

SNOW

People making playful selfies and social imagery who want camera-oriented effects and understand the difference between styling and factual depiction.

  • Mobile monthly active users #42
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Portrait editing / service / checked 2026-10-05

FaceApp

Adults experimenting with their own portraits or authorized creative images, and communicators who can maintain clear consent and labeling.

  • Mobile monthly active users #43
  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #47
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AI assistant; chart identity qualified / service / checked 2026-10-05

NOVA

Unresolved chart identity / no confirmed product link

Potentially useful to people comparing an aggregated assistant interface, once the intended publisher and app listing are confirmed.

  • Mobile monthly active users #44
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Camera effects / service / checked 2026-10-05

Faceu

Faceu is the Faceu激萌 camera and effects application corroborated by its official agreement and Chinese App Store listing.

  • Mobile monthly active users #48
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Math learning support / service / checked 2026-10-05

Photomath

Learners practicing permitted material, plus adults revisiting mathematical fundamentals.

  • Mobile monthly active users #49
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Image and video generation / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Midjourney

Designers, art directors, and independent creators exploring visual concepts with time for iteration, rights review, and human finishing.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #11
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AI image and video creation / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

OpenArt

Visual storytellers, marketers and independent creators who want iterative concept development and can review every output for consistency and rights concerns.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #12
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Meeting transcription and notes / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Otter.ai

Fits teams and individuals who have permission to record and need a searchable record of decisions and discussions.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #14
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Recording hardware / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Plaud

Plaud sells recording devices and related software that turn captured conversations into transcripts and structured notes.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #16
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AI creative-app vendor / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Reface

Adults exploring clearly labeled creative transformations with consent and appropriate image rights.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #18
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Text to speech and voice tools / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Speechify

Readers who prefer listening, people reviewing their own writing aloud, and teams exploring approved audio-access workflows.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #20
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Audio and video editing / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Descript

Podcasters, educators, interview producers and workplace communicators who make speech-heavy recordings and want a text-oriented editing workflow.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #21
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Advertising creative and campaigns / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Zeely

Fits small-business marketers who can supply accurate product information, review generated claims and control campaign spending.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #22
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Avatar video / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

HeyGen

HeyGen creates AI-assisted videos using avatars, scripts and translation workflows.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #23
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Spoken-language practice / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Jumpspeak

Adult learners seeking frequent speaking practice alongside other listening, reading and human feedback.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #24
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Generative video and visual production / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Runway

Video creators and creative teams that can budget for iterations and assess continuity, factual appearance, rights, and final production quality.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #25
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Image and video enhancement / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Topaz Labs

Photographers, video producers and media teams improving authorized assets while preserving originals and checking whether reconstructed details remain appropriate.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #27
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Video creation and editing / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

InVideo

Fits marketers, educators and content teams making draft explainers or promotional material with time for editorial and rights review.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #28
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Video generation / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

TopView

TopView is an AI video-creation service that accepts ideas, scripts, references or product links and organizes generated scenes into an editable workflow.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #29
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3D asset generation / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Meshy.ai

3D artists, game developers and learners comfortable inspecting and revising generated assets.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #31
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Fiction writing and anime imagery / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

NovelAI

Adults writing original fiction or experimenting with illustrated fictional worlds while retaining editorial and rights responsibility.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #33
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Writing and study tools / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

JustDone

Writers and independent learners seeking help revising their own work while maintaining accurate citations and following workplace or academic disclosure rules.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #34
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Meeting transcription and team workflows / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Fireflies.ai

Fits teams with an approved recording policy that want to retrieve meeting details and move reviewed notes into their existing workflow.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #35
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Fiction writing / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Sudowrite

Sudowrite is an AI-assisted writing environment focused on fiction.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #36
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Marketing content and workflows / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Jasper

Marketing teams with repeatable briefs, documented brand rules and a human approval process.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #37
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Portrait editing and photography workflow / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Evoto AI

Photographers and studio teams handling repeated editing work who can maintain client consent, consistency, and a rigorous export review.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #41
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Multimodal AI vendor / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

MiniMax

Product evaluators and creative or technical teams comparing the vendor’s offerings before choosing a specific service, contract and data-handling arrangement.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #42
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Presentation creation / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Beautiful.ai

Fits consultants, operators and teams that produce repeated business presentations and value a structured design system.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #43
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Generative media infrastructure / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

fal

fal is a generative-media platform for developers, offering access to image, video and audio models alongside compute and deployment options.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #44
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Workflow automation / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

n8n

Technical operators and developers building bounded automations with explicit ownership and approval controls.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #45
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AI software-development vendor / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Cognition

Software developers and engineering teams able to review generated changes, manage repository access, run tests, and enforce deployment controls.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #46
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Music practice and production / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Moises

Musicians, music teachers and producers working with recordings they own, have licensed or are otherwise authorized to process.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #48
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AI presenter and training video / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Synthesia

Fits learning teams, internal communications staff and businesses producing repeatable explanations from carefully approved scripts.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #49
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AI research vendor / vendor / checked 2026-10-05

Nous Research

Nous Research is an AI research and product organization whose official site links Hermes Agent and the Nous Portal.

  • Observed U.S. consumer-card spend #50
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