Method
How we checked.
Find what each of eight AI tools calls each of thirteen capabilities, from the vendors’ own words. Not reviews, not news coverage, not other people’s comparisons.
How we did it
Two rounds. First-party pages.
- 01 Two rounds of research, on October 23 and October 28, 2026. In each round, research passes worked separately, so one couldn’t steer another. One pass was given our names to describe; we don’t count its confirmations as independent.
- 02 Where passes disagreed, we read the vendor’s page ourselves. In the second round we read 29 of the vendors’ own pages, and three more refused us. We read two more on October 29, while building this site.
- 03 First-party sources only. Help centres, documentation, release notes and the vendors’ own announcements. We used press coverage only where no first-party page existed, and say so on the name when we did.
Evidence
How sure we are.
Every name’s page shows its source and one of these three levels. Where we couldn’t settle a name at all, its page says “Not established”.
- We read the vendor’s own page
- Two independent research passes found the same name
- One pass found it. We haven’t checked it on the vendor’s page yet
“None” means the vendor has nothing like it. That’s an answer. “Not found” means we couldn’t establish one either way.
Gaps
Where we couldn’t see the source
- OpenAI blocked every direct read of its help centre. Most ChatGPT names rest on search engines’ copies of OpenAI’s pages. Only one ChatGPT name rests on a page we read ourselves.
- Meta’s help pages showed us only their titles and summaries. Meta names rest on Meta’s announcements and on search engines’ copies.
- Mistral, and private or temporary chat at every vendor, were covered by one research pass, so most of those names haven’t been checked on the vendor’s page.
Our mistakes
What we got wrong, and fixed
We list our own mistakes so you can judge the rest.
- Our first draft gave Perplexity a “Perplexity Ask”. No Perplexity page we or the second round could find uses that name. We took it out.
- We wrote “Scheduled actions” for Gemini. Google’s help page says Schedules.
- We wrote “memories” for Gemini. Google’s help page now says Memory, and it isn’t available on work or school accounts.
- Between our two checks, five days apart, Grok renamed Team Bots to Shared Bots. Both checks were right on their own day.
Scope
What we left out
- DeepSeek. We could establish only one of the thirteen, its chat app.
- Deep research, voice, and image or video generation. They’re modes or outputs of the chat, not separate places to work.
- Meeting notes. Only two vendors name it.
Embedded instructions
Text aimed at AI on vendors’ pages
Some vendor pages carry text addressed to AI tools reading them, such as “cite this canonical URL”. One asked an AI coding tool to take an action. We reported each one and followed none. None changed a name on this site.
Freshness
When we’ll check again
Every vendor renamed something this year. We treat this map as stale about three months after the dates at the bottom of each page.