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Reference profiles

dalao.ai's catalog is for AI products from independent developers, small teams and open source. Products from big tech and leading companies live here instead, with their profiles, changelogs and related news, to give the news context.

Reference profiles are left out of recommendations, rankings, weekly boards, collections and catalog numbering. The catalog

Agents & coding9

  • BoltBuild websites, apps and prototypes by chatting with AI
  • CognitionThe applied AI lab behind the Devin coding agent
  • CursorThe coding agent for building ambitious software
  • GitHub CopilotGitHub's AI coding agent, from the open issue to the merged pull request
  • LovableDescribe an app in plain language and Lovable builds it
  • ManusThe general AI agent that delivers results
  • ReplitDescribe an app and Replit builds and hosts it
  • TRAETraeCode for AI-assisted coding and TraeWork for everyday work
  • v0Vercel's AI assistant for building full-stack web apps

Dev tools & infra6

  • Cloudflare Workers AIRun machine learning models, powered by serverless GPUs, on Cloudflare's global network.
  • Hugging FaceA platform for hosting and collaborating on open machine-learning models, datasets, and apps, with pay-as-you-go inference and compute.
  • OpenRouterA model gateway that puts hundreds of AI models from dozens of providers behind one OpenAI-compatible API, billed from prepaid credits.
  • SGLangSGLang is a high-performance serving framework for large language models and multimodal models.
  • WarpAn agentic development environment born out of the terminal, with a mostly AGPL client and a proprietary server.
  • ZeaburA developer deployment and operations platform that is shutting down: services wind down from December 1, 2026, everything stops on December 31, and Zeabur recommends migrating by November 30.

Design & creative5

  • ElevenLabsAI voice generation and voice agents
  • Kling AIAI video and image generation
  • MidjourneyA self-funded research lab known for its image and video models
  • RunwayAI models and tools for generating and editing video, images and audio
  • SunoMake an original song from a text prompt

Indie business & craft1

  • FamilyAn iOS Ethereum wallet being wound down: no new users from April 1, 2026, and existing users can stay until April 1, 2027.

Models & assistants16

  • AnthropicMaker of the Claude models and Claude Code, with a pay-as-you-go API and Apache-2.0 SDKs.
  • DeepSeekA large-language-model company with MIT-licensed open weights and a pay-as-you-go API priced by peak and off-peak hours.
  • ERNIEBaidu's ERNIE (Wenxin) foundation models
  • Google DeepMindGoogle's AI lab, building the Gemini models
  • GrokSpaceXSI's AI assistant, built on the Grok models
  • KimiMoonshot AI's assistant and agent, built on its own Kimi models
  • Meta AIMeta's AI organization, behind the Llama models and the Meta AI assistant
  • Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft's AI assistant for chatting, creating and learning
  • MiniMaxMultimodal foundation models and AI-native products
  • Mistral AIFrontier open-weight models you can run on your own infrastructure
  • OpenAIMaker of ChatGPT and the GPT-6 model family, with a pay-as-you-go API and Apache-2.0 open-weight gpt-oss models.
  • PerplexityAn AI answer engine with cited sources, plus the Computer agent, the Comet browser and a developer API.
  • QwenAlibaba Cloud's family of open foundation models and the Qwen assistant
  • StepFunIts own Step foundation models for language, vision, audio and video
  • Tencent HunyuanTencent's foundation models for text, image, video and 3D
  • Z.aiThe lab behind the GLM models, and the Z.ai assistant