List of chatbots

A chatbot is a software application or web interface that is designed to mimic human conversation through text or voice interactions.[1][2][3] Modern chatbots are typically online and use generative artificial intelligence systems that are capable of maintaining a conversation with a user in natural language and simulating the way a human would behave as a conversational partner. Such chatbots often use deep learning and natural language processing, but simpler chatbots have existed for decades.

This list of chatbots is a general overview of notable chatbot applications and web interfaces.

General chatbots

Chatbot Developer Released Platform Technology License Notes
Alexa Amazon 2014-11-06 Fire OS, iOS, Android, Linux, Windows, Wear OS[citation needed] Largely based on a Polish speech synthesizer named Ivona, bought by Amazon in 2013[4][5] Proprietary Virtual assistant
Alice Yandex 2017-10-10 Windows, iOS, Android YandexGPT[6] ? Virtual assistant
AliGenie Alibaba Group 2017-07-05 ? ? ? Virtual assistant
Assistant Google 2016-05-18 Android, ChromeOS, iOS, iPadOS, KaiOS, Linux, Android TV, Wear OS ? ? Virtual assistant
Bixby Samsung Electronics 2017-04-21 Android, Tizen, Windows, Wear OS ? Proprietary, except for open-source components Virtual assistant
Braina Brainasoft 2014-02-09 or earlier[7] Windows Various Proprietary Virtual assistant[8][9] and speech-to-text dictation[10] application
CarynAI Caryn Marjorie[11] 2023-05-09 ? BanterAI[12][13][14][15][16] ?
Celia Huawei 2020-04-27 Android, EMUI, HarmonyOS Huawei PanGu Proprietary Virtual assistant designed for the latest HarmonyOS and Android-based EMUI smartphones that lack Google Services and the Google Assistant[17][18][19][20]
Chai Chai 2021-09-01 API, iOS, Android Chaiverse[21] Proprietary, except for open-source components
ChatGPT OpenAI 2022-11-30 Web app, iOS, Android GPT-4, GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini Proprietary
Claude Anthropic 2023-03 Web app, iOS Claude 2.1 Proprietary
Cleverbot Rollo Carpenter 2008-10 Web app ? ? Winner of the 2010 Mechanical Intelligence Competition
Clova Naver Corporation 2017-03-01 iOS, Android ? ? Virtual assistant
Copilot Microsoft 2023-02-07 Web app, Windows, iOS, Android Microsoft Prometheus, GPT-4 Proprietary Launched as Bing Chat
Ernie Bot Baidu 2023-03-16 ? ? ?
Gemini Google 2023-03-21 Web app, Android, iOS Gemini (language model) Proprietary[22] Virtual assistant
GigaChat Sberbank 2023-04 Web app ? Proprietary
Grok xAI 2023-11-04 Web app ? Proprietary, Apache-2.0 (Grok-1) Currently under beta testing for those with the premium version of X
Jabberwacky Rollo Carpenter 1997 Web app ? ? Predecessor to Cleverbot
Kuki Steve Worswick 2013 or earlier[23] Web app, various social networks Pandorabots AIML ? Embodied five-time Loebner Prize winner designed to befriend humans in the metaverse[24][25][26]
Lenny "Mango"[27][28] 2011 ? ? Source-available An audio bot designed to annoy telemarketers
Leo Brave Software 2023-11-02 Windows, macOS, Linux LLaMA 2, Claude ? Included with the Brave desktop browser
MegaHAL Jason Hutchens 1995-04-30 Web app, command line ? Unlicense
SILVIA Cognitive Code 2008-01-01 Windows, macOS, iOS, Android ? Proprietary Core platform technology
SimSimi ISMaker[29] 2002 Web app, iOS, Android ? ?
Siri Apple Inc. 2011-10-05 iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS, tvOS, audioOS, visionOS[30][31] ? ? Virtual assistant
SpookiTalk The Digital Village 1998-04-02 Windows, Classic Mac OS Based on VelociText[32] ? Language processor used for non-player characters in Starship Titanic[citation needed]
Q Amazon 2023-11-28 Web app Amazon Titan, Amazon Bedrock,[33] generative pre-trained transformers ? Developed for enterprise use
Ultra Hal Robert Medeksza 2000-12-04 or earlier[34] Windows GPT-3[35][non-primary source needed] ? 2007 Loebner Prize winner intended to function as a virtual assistant
Xiaowei Tencent 2017-06 (late in the month) ? ? ? Virtual assistant

Historical chatbots

Chatbot Developer Released Discontinued Platform Technology License Notes
Albert One Robby Garner 1995 ? The Internet Based on a multi-faceted approach in natural-language programming ? 1998 and 1999 Loebner Prize winner designed to mimic the way humans make conversations
Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity Richard Wallace 1995-11-23[36] 2013-10-15 ? AIML Open-source software[37] Three-time Loebner Prize winner
Assistant Speaktoit 2011-03-01 2016-12-15 Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Windows 10, ChromeOS ? ? A virtual assistant acquired by Google, unrelated to the Google Assistant
Charlix ? 2006-04-17 2010-03-03[38][non-primary source needed] Linux Based on Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity Open-source software Desktop virtual assistant
Cortana Microsoft 2014-04-02 2023-08-11 Windows, Windows Phone, iOS, Android, Xbox OS Tellme Networks, Satori, Microsoft Eva Proprietary A deprecated virtual assistant succeeded by Copilot; originally named after character in Xbox Halo video game
Dr. Sbaitso Creative Labs 1991-06 or earlier[39] ? MS-DOS Speech synthesis ? Initially released in Singapore
ELIZA Joseph Weizenbaum[40][41] 1964 1967 (stopped development)[42] ? Pattern matching, MAD-SLIP, lisp-like representation[43] ? Developed at MIT
Eugene Goostman Vladimir Veselov, Eugene Demchenko, Sergey Ulasen[44][45] 2001 2014-06-07 ? ? ? 2012 Turing 100 and 2014 Royal Society Turing test winner some regard as having passed the Turing test
Evi True Knowledge 2012-10 2014-01-23 iOS, Android ? ? Virtual assistant
Fred Robby Garner 1997-12-01 or earlier[46] ? ? ? ?
GooglyMinotaur ActiveBuddy (under contract by Capitol Records) 2001-06 2002-03-24 AIM ? ? ActiveBuddy's first offering,[47][48] specializing in Radiohead-related information[49]
Infobot Kevin Lenzo 1995-06 ? IRC Perl, factoids Artistic License An IRC bot primarily designed to assist with answering FAQs in channels such as #perl[50]
Jeeney AI C.J. Jones 2007-02[51] 2010 ? ? ? 2009 Chatterbox Challenge winner[52]
Mark V Shaney Rob Pike, Bruce Ellis, Don P. Mitchell 1981 ? Usenet Markov chain techniques ? A synthetic user whose postings in the net.singles newsgroups were generated based on text from other postings
Mycroft Mycroft team 2015-11-17 2023-01-31 Linux ? Apache License[53] Virtual assistant
PARRY Kenneth Colby 1972 ? ? ? ? An early example of a chatbot
Racter Mindscape (publisher) 1984 ? IBM PC compatibles, Apple II, Mac, Amiga ? ? Was able to generate English-language prose at random[54]
SmarterChild ActiveBuddy 2001-06 2006-10-12 AIM, Windows Live Messenger ? ? The second bot released by ActiveBuddy[55]
Sparrow Google DeepMind 2022-09 2023-01-12 Web app Chinchilla Proprietary
Tay Microsoft 2016-03-23 2016-03-24 Twitter ? ? Rapidly decayed into producing racist bigotry after manipulation by online trolls (from 4chan and 8chan); suspended after 16 hours[56][57]
Verbot Avaya 1997 2012 (early in the year) Microsoft Windows, web app ? ? An artificial intelligence software development kit[58]
Viv Viv Labs, Inc. (subsidiary of Samsung Electronics) 2016-05-09 2017-10-18 iOS, Android Integrated into Bixby 2.0 ? Virtual assistant

See also

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