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.

General chatbots

Chatbot	Developer	Released	Platform	Technology	License[a]	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]	Proprietary	Virtual assistant
AliGenie	Alibaba Group	2017-07-05	?	?	?	Virtual assistant
Bixby	Samsung Electronics	2017-04-21	Android, Tizen, Windows, Wear OS	?	Proprietary	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	Chatbot platform	Proprietary
ChatBot	Text	2019-08	API, Web app	?	Proprietary	Launched as BotEngine
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
DeepSeek	DeepSeek	2025-01-10	Web app, iOS, Android	DeepSeek-R1	Proprietary	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[21]	Virtual assistant
GigaChat	Sberbank	2023-04	Web app	?	Proprietary
Google Assistant	Google	2016-05-18	Android, ChromeOS, iOS, iPadOS, KaiOS, Linux, Android TV, Wear OS	?	Proprietary	Virtual assistant
Grok	xAI	2023-11-04	Web app, iOS, Android	?	Proprietary	Limited usage for all registered users on X.
Jabberwacky	Rollo Carpenter	1997	Web app	?	?	Predecessor to Cleverbot
Kuki	Steve Worswick	2005	Web app, various social networks	Pandorabots AIML	?	Embodied five-time Loebner Prize winner designed to befriend humans in the metaverse[22][23][24]
Lenny	"Mango"[25][26]	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	Markov chain (4th order)[27]	Unlicense
Meta AI	Meta AI	2023-09-27	Windows, macOS, iOS, Android	?	?
Perplexity AI	Aravind Srinivas	2022-12-07	Web app, iOS, Android	Sonar AI	?
SILVIA	Cognitive Code	2008-01-01	Windows, macOS, iOS, Android	?	Proprietary	Core platform technology
SimSimi	ISMaker[28]	2002	Web app, iOS, Android	?	?
Siri	Apple Inc.	2011-10-05	iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS, tvOS, audioOS, visionOS[29][30]	?	Proprietary	Virtual assistant
Q	Amazon	2023-11-28	Web app	Amazon Titan, Amazon Bedrock,[31] generative pre-trained transformers	?	Developed for enterprise use
Qwen	Alibaba Group	2023-09-01	Web app, Android	Qwen1.5, Qwen2, Qwen3	?
Ultra Hal	Robert Medeksza	2000-12-04 or earlier[32]	Windows		?	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[33]	2013-10-15	?	AIML	Open-source software[34]	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[35][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[36]	?	MS-DOS	Speech synthesis	?	Initially released in Singapore
ELIZA	Joseph Weizenbaum[37][38]	1964	1967 (stopped development)[39]	?	Pattern matching, MAD-SLIP, lisp-like representation[40]	?	Developed at MIT
Eugene Goostman	Vladimir Veselov, Eugene Demchenko, Sergey Ulasen[41][42]	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[43]	?	?	?	?
GooglyMinotaur	ActiveBuddy (under contract by Capitol Records)	2001-06	2002-03-24	AIM	?	?	ActiveBuddy's first offering,[44][45] specializing in Radiohead-related information[46]
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[47]
Jeeney AI	C.J. Jones	2007-02[48]	2010	?	?	?	2009 Chatterbox Challenge winner[49]
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[50]	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[51]
SmarterChild	ActiveBuddy	2001-06	2006-10-12	AIM, Windows Live Messenger	?	?	The second bot released by ActiveBuddy[52]
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[53][54]
Verbot	Avaya	1997	2012 (early in the year)	Microsoft Windows, web app	?	?	An artificial intelligence software development kit[55]
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

• Cursor (code editor) — Fork of VS Code with additional AI features
• J.A.R.V.I.S. — AI from Iron Man
• List of large language models
• The Pile (dataset), public data used to train many research models

Notes

1. Chatbots may be licensed differently from the large language models (LLMs) they use. For the licenses of LLMs used by chatbots, see List of large language models.