Best AI for a personal assistant
What 66 creators said they actually use for a personal assistant, from podcasts and YouTube. Not benchmark scores. Updated Oct 18, 2026.
Short answer
For a personal assistant, Claude (24 creators) and ChatGPT (23) are neck and neck. The model they name most is Muse (11).
Top tools for a personal assistant
Creators who use or recommend each"I have built personal operating systems in Claude and whatnot that I find really helpful as like a chief of staff for big complex projects that take all the inputs from, whether it's Granola or calendar and email, with all the research I..."
"If you don't want to use Superfocus, you can always try and connect different apps to ChatGPT and run a routine overnight or something to flag these."
"When I use the Grok bot, for example, it's the same one in the car, it's the same one in my Twitter feed when I ask questions. It's all unified, and I feel like that's what Google needs to do."
"I actually do this with Codex because it turned out Comcast is blocking Muse. They know the IP addresses or something, so it won't let you log in. So, I just have ChatGPT, you know, Codex, Astra, like log in on my computer, does everything."
"If you don't use the Gemini stuff so much, you can still get just as much computer for less with a Chromebook, but I find that stuff useful."
"You can also use Claude Code. So, I asked it, without revealing any confidential information, 'What should I focus on to grow my business?'"
"When I'm in China for two weeks, it's DeepSeek and Gemini. Those are my friends. DeepSeek is intentionally crippled in China. It's not as good as it is here. It can't search the web and it is trained on different data as near as I can tell."
"Like if you talk to Perplexity which is what I use for everything if I talked to it I would not know whether or not that's a person or not. It can communicate like a human."
Models creators name for a personal assistant
Most creators name the app (like Claude Code), not the model, so these counts are smaller.
Head to head for a personal assistant
Only creators who compared the two for a personal assistant.
Best AI for other jobs
How this works: we read every podcast and YouTube transcript we track and note when a creator says they use or recommend an AI tool for a job. Each creator counts once per tool. Sponsored mentions are left out. More about Followed.