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Modeinspect is a design canvas for product teams who are tired of mockups drifting from what actually ships. Launched as Modeinspect 1.0 on September 10, 2026, it connects to your real repository and lets you design UI with the exact components, design tokens, and live data your app already uses, so nothing is redrawn from scratch. Core Features Connect a codebase and Mode turns it into editabl...

Dazzle is a photo-first personal AI assistant for iPhone users who want help without retyping their life story. Launched on September 29, 2026 by Dazzle AI, the startup founded by former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Dazzle builds context from your camera roll instead of your email or calendar. Core Features Learns about you from photos and screenshots rather than inbox, bank, or messages. A "Get It...

Maket 2.0 is an AI home design studio that turns a plain-language description into an editable residential floor plan, then renders rooms in 3D. Built by Montreal startup Maket (founders Patrick Murphy, Stephane Turbide and Simon Vallee, public since 2023 with 1M+ registered users), it targets homeowners, renovators, builders and real-estate professionals who want architect-quality layouts with...

X-Design, built by Starii Tech under the Zawa brand, is an AI branding agent that keeps a brand visually consistent for small-business owners, cafes, and e-commerce sellers who need production-ready logos, menus, and social graphics without hiring a designer. You set a brand kit once, and every asset it generates stays aligned to your colors, fonts, and logos, so a menu, a poster, and an Instag...

Hark Pro is a proactive personal AI assistant for people who want a delegate to handle their daily online errands, launched on October 6, 2026 by Brett Adcock's startup Hark, also behind Figure AI and Archer Aviation. Unlike a chatbot that waits for prompts, Hark acts first: it books travel, pays bills, and manages tasks across your accounts. Core Features Handoff, Hark's cloud computer, drives...

Ptero is a free, no-signup multi-model AI chat platform for developers and students who want to compare language models in one browser tab without creating accounts. Built by aminkheddache and released as open-source under Apache 2.0, it stores conversations locally in your browser and needs no installation. Core Features Multi-model chat: switch in one click between models such as DeepSeek V4,...

Google Gemini 3.8 Live is a real-time multilingual voice model for agents that run customer-facing spoken dialogue in many languages. Google DeepMind shipped two versions on September 15, 2026 - the cost-efficient Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, which narrates its reasoning aloud while it works. Core Features Speech-to-speech architecture: audio goes in and audio comes ou...

Bolt.new Visual Edits is a canvas editing layer inside Bolt.new, the AI app builder from StackBlitz, that lets you change your generated app by clicking elements instead of writing another prompt. You select a text block, button, or nav bar, tweak size and color on the spot, stack as many changes as you want, then send them to the model in one batch. It shipped to every Bolt.new user, free and ...

Nous Hermes Desktop is a desktop app from Nous Research that gives Mac and Windows users one-click local model setup, so anyone can run open-weight LLMs privately without editing config files. Updated in early September 2026, it detects your hardware, picks the best build, downloads it, and starts the runtime in a single flow. Core Features Automatic hardware detection that selects the optimal ...

Inline is a thread-based chat app that keeps your teammates and AI agents working together in the same conversations, built for product and engineering groups who want agents assisting inside daily chat rather than in a separate tab. Core Features Thread-based layout that keeps agent output out of the way of the human conversation and lets you close or reopen threads as needed. Agents as first-...

World Labs Atlas is a multimodal world model from Fei-Fei Li's World Labs that turns a handful of photos into navigable 3D scenes and camera-controlled video, built for filmmakers, game designers, and robotics teams who need consistent spatial output rather than random clips. Core Features Pixel-perfect camera control: feed Atlas a camera trajectory as a native geometric input, and it generates...

Runway Solaris is an interface world model that generates working software interfaces frame by frame in real-time, announced by Runway on August 31, 2026 for designers and product teams who want to prototype interactive experiences without writing a line of front-end code. Instead of producing HTML or React, Solaris renders each screen as a continuous video-like stream that reacts to clicks, dr...

GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's computer-using flagship frontier model, released on September 3, 2026, built for professionals who need an AI assistant that can actually operate software rather than just chat about it. Unlike earlier ChatGPT models, Astra can drive desktop applications, write and refactor code, run cybersecurity reviews, and assemble documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks from a temp...

What Is Google Pics Google Pics is an AI image-creation tool for Google Workspace users that turns a text prompt into finished posters, social graphics, and slides. Launched on September 2, 2026, it runs on Google's NanoBanana image model and slots directly into Docs and Slides, with Drive support arriving later. It targets marketers, educators, and everyday Workspace users who need on-brand vi...

Mistral Le Chat is Mistral's privacy-first AI chat assistant for professionals who want a capable chatbot without sending their prompts to US servers. Built by the French lab Mistral AI, it runs on the company's own open-weight models and adds web search, code execution, and image generation in one thread. Mistral AI is a French company valued near 14 billion dollars and positions Le Chat as a ...

Figma Make is Figma's prompt-to-app tool that turns a sentence, a screenshot, or an existing Figma frame into a working prototype for product designers, PMs, and front-end engineers who already live in the Figma ecosystem. It is not a full app builder; it is a functional prototyping surface that generates real React and TypeScript code running in a live browser preview, so stakeholders click th...

Vercel v0 is an AI UI generator that turns prompts and screenshots into production-ready React and Next.js components. Built by Vercel, it targets frontend developers and design teams who live in the Next.js ecosystem and want working interface code instead of throwaway mockups. Core Features Prompt-to-UI generation: describe a page or paste a screenshot, Figma export, or wireframe and v0 retur...

Super Xiaoai 2.0 Expert Mode is a MiMo-powered AI assistant from Xiaomi for phone users who want heavy task orchestration rather than quick answers. Announced on 13 August 2026 and rolling out on the HyperOS 4 Beta, it adds a credit-based Expert tier on top of the free Quick mode. Core Features Two modes: a free Quick mode for daily Q and A, smart-home control, and photo touch-ups, and an Exper...

Figma Weave is a node-based, multi-model canvas for designers and creative teams who need repeatable AI image and video pipelines instead of lucky one-off generations. Figma bought the Tel Aviv startup Weavy in October 2025, its first acquisition after the IPO, and relaunched it as Weave at weave.figma.com. Core Features Chain models from Google, OpenAI, Kling, ByteDance, Black Forest Labs, Run...

ChatGPT is a conversational AI assistant from OpenAI for anyone who wants a single, unified place to write, research, code, and create with a frontier model. Powered by the GPT-5.6 family, it serves free users and paying subscribers through a web app, desktop apps, and mobile, with voice, image, and file inputs. Core Features Frontier models: GPT-5.6 with auto mode plus reasoning and faster var...