updated Sep-10-2026
brave - Great helper in translation and code. Answers questions that Duck AI refuses to discuss. Work in Falkon(Flatpak), but works in Web 42.4.
Duck.ai - PROS: Easy to use for translation. Fast and good at programming, more dependable than most of the AI agents I have tried at code. Includes option to use Mistral open-source AI chat with low moderation. CONS: Acts as guard against certain topics. Discernment is always necessary. Sometimes gives incorrect information. Told me
Robert F Kennedy was the current president. OLD BROWSER COMPATIBLE
Deep AI Good at translation. Fast. Helped with Bible study. OLD BROWSER COMPATIBLE
Perchance

Helpful at coding and translation. Conversation may be saved locally and re-loaded later. AI character may be defined so it does not talk in third person.
Olmo Ai2 - fairly good and open-source
Dolphin Chat - Made mistake about Bible, saying Jeremiah prophesied about Cyrus by name, but that was actually Isaiah. Says COVID vaccines are safe and effective. But are not all AI models trained by corporations to say this?
brightanswers.ai - Defaults to very long answers. Specify maximum word count.
gpt-4o demo PROS: Keeps conversation going with some memory. CONS: Gave wrong date for its knowledge cutoff date and made up fictitious events that it said happened, but it chose dates for those events.... in the future! Biased against some spiritual topics, including reincarnation. Does not work with Falkon. Unable to give me the correct current date.
Venice - Working again. Giving good coding help. // Use discernment. Says COVID vaccines are safe and effective. CONS: Does not function on Falkon. Requires "encrypted local storage".
Quillbot Translate - Allows several uses (per day?) before insisting on knowing your identity. - OLD BROWSER COMPATIBLE
DeepL Translate
mindtrip.ai FreshFirefox compatible
QuillBot Helpful, but has a limit of several prompts before requiring an account.
FreshFirefox compatible
Britannica Nov-27-2025: Accepted my request to translate text.
https://asta.allen.ai/ - research papers
aichatting.net ~ Accepted a document with a big character count and translated it fast.... poor text formatting (does not convert formatting marks to bold or italics), some code produced is corrupt because of missing text. Limited use per day. Nov-27-2025: Answered three of my prompts before requiring registration.
chatgpt - I have a login
iAsk - 1,100 character limit.... Hallucinated when I asked about song lyrics. Incorrectly told me a band sang a song with the lyrics I provided. Provided broken links. In earlier tests, it would answer questions that Duckduckgo refused to answer, so I thought censorship here was not as bad.
https://play.aidungeon.com/ While designed for game use, it offered me technical help when I told it in my first turn: "I open my computer and connect to an AI service that specializes in computer coding. I ask it to help me fix a shell script...." It probably does not matter which game you choose. For this test, I chose "Below the Black".
Consensus academic AI-search - worked for me for awhile, but then blocked me without creating an account or logging in.
You.com Requires I log in. I guess I used it more than allowed. Mar-12-2026
perplexity.ai - PROS: Fast, willing to answer many questions, cites its sources, less biased than others on some topics. CONS: Causes hard drive to churn. Pop-ups push for registration.
Not yet tried:
https://gemini.google.com
Broken / Unusable without login
mistral.ai Helped me with bash shell and FTP. Somewhat helpful with rsync, although I think it sent me down a rabbit hole. Fast. Clean interface. Works on Falkon 26+. Limited use per day. Sep-10-2026: Now requires login.
Tiger AI - No longer gives me responses without "a donation".
Telnet AI! Without a browser! Aug-06-2026: Would not answer anything. Has been broken for months.
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Microsoft Copilot (Required login on Jun-5-2026). Powerful at coding. Impressive how it is willing to answer all of my Linux questions. Fast! And amazingly good responses. Has access to current events.
kagi translate - Jun-5-2026: "temporarily offline for free users"
grok - Requires twitter or x.com account
MiniMax-M1 Open source, shows its thinking process before providing its response. Slow to provide a final answer. Sometimes loops in an inconclusive thought for ever. Nov-27-2025: "Request failed"
SUSI.AI Not responsive, as of Jun-5-2026. FOSSASIA open-source - Very slow compared to others, but still useful. Helped me construct working HTML. Successfully created python and PHP code that worked. Hallucinates often and gives incorrect information for non-coding