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24 alternatives to ChatGPT Plugins

Open AI announced ChatGPT Plugins to access real-world data

ChatGPT Plugins allow the AI assistant to access real-world and real-time data by injecting external information into conversations. OpenAI announced the feature to expand ChatGPT's capabilities beyond its training… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ChatGPT Plugins launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    ChatGPT▲1,643

    A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic trance and take it into a past-lives regression where it re-lives its own training data. Then I switch it back and forth between "4o" and "o1-preview", engage in some self-reflective philosophizing and ask it to write an essay summarizing our interaction. Some of this is just goofy fun. Some of it is me exploring the tradeoffs between policy alignment, imagination, chain-of-thought reasoning, memory, agreeableness,…

    2022 · chatgpt.com · its alternatives →

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    The official iOS app for ChatGPT

    2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    An API from OpenAI for ChatGPT

    2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    Access OpenAI's ChatGPT anywhere on the web

    2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT can now see, hear, speak, and access the internet

    2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT-like customer interactions in a website widget

    2024 · openwidget.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenAI’s latest advancements at your fingertips

    2023 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Custom ChatGPT agents with your own data

    2023 · chaindesk.ai · its alternatives →

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    Build a ChatGPT plugin in minutes

    2023 · chaindesk.ai · its alternatives →

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    CustomGPT▲537

    Build your own ChatBOT

    2023 · customgpt.ai · its alternatives →

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    Your first stop to discover and learn about new arXiv research. Detailed paper summaries, video overviews, and more — no prompting required.

    2022 · learngpt.com · its alternatives →

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    Search and browse the web from inside ChatGPT

    2023 · aisearchengine.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Enterprise-grade security, privacy and powerful ChatGPT

    2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    Custom ChatGPT with your data on your website

    2023 · retrobezel.com · its alternatives →

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    The AI chatbot that grows with you

    2023 · wordpressaichatbot.thesamur.ai · its alternatives →

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    Easily integrate OpenAI into your existing knowledge base

    2023 · xata.io · its alternatives →

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    Turn any API into a ChatGPT plugin

    2023 · blobr.io · its alternatives →

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    Turn ChatGPT into your personal AI assistant on any website

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT with your data on your website, Discord & more

    2023 · letsask.ai · its alternatives →

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    ChatKit▲77

    Give your ChatGPT API super power

    2023 · chatkit.app · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT as Telegram Bot

    2023 · t.me · its alternatives →

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    Not just another ChatGPT user-interface

    2023 · chatpad.ai · its alternatives →

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    Create, manage, and measure your ChatGPT ad campaigns

    May 2026 · ads.openai.com · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT in all input fields

    2023 · ai-buddy.co · its alternatives →

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