Reference
Two layers. Use this map when a name comes up; every card links to its maker.
Models
Best for coding, long context and agents.
Claude is the chat assistant; Claude Code is the terminal coding agent.
Best for general chat, multimodal work and tools.
ChatGPT is the chat product; Codex is the coding agent.
Best for multimodal work, long context and Workspace.
Gemini is the assistant; Antigravity and Gemini CLI are the coding agents.
Open, low-cost agentic coding.
Kimi is the chat product; Kimi Code is the terminal coding agent.
Open, self-hostable coding across languages.
Qwen Chat is the assistant; Qwen Code is the open-source CLI agent.
Open coding for existing agents.
Z.ai is the chat product; the GLM Coding Plan powers Claude Code, Cline and others.
Text-to-speech, dubbing and voice cloning.
A go-to audio lab for realistic voice.
Finished songs: vocals, structure and genre range.
Turn a text prompt into an exportable track.
Musician-grade quality and per-stem control.
Download bass, drums and vocals separately.
All-around video quality with native audio.
Text or image to video with synced sound.
Top video quality with native audio.
Text-to-video with audio; access via Dreamina.
High-motion scenes, native audio and multilingual lip-sync.
Strong dialogue and movement.
Navigable 3D environments from prompts.
Marble builds explorable 3D worlds.
Real-time interactive worlds you can steer.
Playable environments from video that respond live.
Physical AI: robotics and vehicle training data.
World models for photorealistic physical-world video.
Application layer
Tools and products built on models: host code, find data, ship apps and read research.
Code and open-source projects.
Host repos, study public work and contribute.
Open models, datasets and live demos.
Download a model or run one in a Space.
Datasets, notebooks and ML competitions.
Learn through a competition or public notebook.
Ship a website or app to a live URL.
Connect a repo; it redeploys on every push.
Write, run and host code in the browser.
Use it when setup blocks your first project.
Describe an app; get a web frontend.
For prototypes and quick internal tools.
An answer engine with live citations.
Research faster than search-and-read loops.
Connect apps and AI into low-code workflows.
A self-hostable backbone for agentic automation.
Turn a prompt or outline into a presentation.
Decks, docs and one-page sites without slide-layout work.
Open-access preprints; AI research lands here first.
Read the paper before the summaries.
Papers linked to implementations and benchmarks.
Find the repo and task leaderboard.
A daily, community-voted AI-paper feed.
See what the field is watching this week.
Where this fits
A reference, not a route. The eight-step route does not depend on any name here.