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Source-controlled AI checks that enforce engineering standards on every GitHub pull request.
Source-controlled AI checks that enforce engineering standards on every GitHub pull request.
coding
Paid
Manus
An autonomous AI agent for building websites, slides, apps, and research, now part of Meta.
An autonomous AI agent for building websites, slides, apps, and research, now part of Meta.
agents
Paid
MiniMax
A full-stack multimodal AI platform offering text, video, voice, music, and agent capabilities for developers and creators.
A full-stack multimodal AI platform offering text, video, voice, music, and agent capabilities for developers and creators.
api
Paid
Wan
Alibaba Cloud's open-source AI suite for generating and editing images and videos with precise control over text, color, and characters.
Alibaba Cloud's open-source AI suite for generating and editing images and videos with precise control over text, color, and characters.
video
Paid
You.com
Real-time web search APIs that ground AI agents and LLMs with accurate, cited answers from live sources.
Real-time web search APIs that ground AI agents and LLMs with accurate, cited answers from live sources.
api
Paid
Claude Code
Anthropic's agentic AI coding agent that builds, debugs, and ships from your terminal, IDE, Slack, or the web.
Anthropic's agentic AI coding agent that builds, debugs, and ships from your terminal, IDE, Slack, or the web.
coding
Paid
Midjourney
A community-funded research lab building beautiful AI image and video models with an eye toward human flourishing and future hardware.
A community-funded research lab building beautiful AI image and video models with an eye toward human flourishing and future hardware.
image
Paid
OpenAI API
The default AI API — broad model selection, including GPT-5.5 and Sora.
The default AI API — broad model selection, including GPT-5.5 and Sora.
api
Paid
Anthropic API
Direct API access to Claude — the platform that powers most AI dev tooling.
Direct API access to Claude — the platform that powers most AI dev tooling.
api
Paid
Replicate
Run any open model with a single API call, now with sub-100ms cold start.
Run any open model with a single API call, now with sub-100ms cold start.
infrastructure
Paid
GitHub Copilot
The IDE assistant that started it all — now bundling Claude Code on Pro.
The IDE assistant that started it all — now bundling Claude Code on Pro.
coding
Paid
MidjourneyFeatured
The image model with the most distinctive aesthetic — favoured by designers.
The image model with the most distinctive aesthetic — favoured by designers.
image
Paid
Modal
Run Python code in the cloud — including GPU workloads — with a function decorator.
Run Python code in the cloud — including GPU workloads — with a function decorator.
infrastructure
Paid