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	DALL-E 3 B	DeepSeek S	Skye A	Gemini A
Tagline	OpenAI's image model. Built into ChatGPT Plus.	Chinese open-weight powerhouse. Crazy cheap, genuinely smart.	An agentic iPhone home screen that replaces your static icon grid with AI widgets that proactively surface health, calendar, finance, and local context — without you having to open a single app.	Google's answer. Best integrated with Workspace + free for a lot.
Category	Image	Chatbots	Agents	Chatbots
Pricing	Included with ChatGPT Plus $20/mo	Free web + ultra-cheap API (~$0.14/M input tokens)	Waitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)	Free + $20/mo Advanced (bundled with 2TB Drive)
Best for	ChatGPT Plus users who want images without paying extra.	Developers + cost-conscious builders. Anyone fine with self-hosting.	iPhone power users who are frustrated that Siri is still reactive and want their home screen to actually anticipate their day.	Anyone already on Google, research tasks, summarizing long documents.
Strengths	Excellent prompt understanding Built into ChatGPT — no extra subscription Good at composition + concepts	Open weights you can self-host Strong reasoning + math Near-free API pricing DeepSeek-V3 / R1 are serious models	Ambient, proactive intelligence delivered via native iOS widgets — no app-switching required Cross-domain context: health, calendar, email, finances, and local recommendations in one layer Works within iOS permission model (no jailbreak or sideloading), making App Store approval plausible Strong pre-launch signal: 25k+ waitlist and backing from a16z, True Ventures, and SV Angel	Native Google Workspace integration Very long context (1M+) Deep Research feature Free tier is generous
Weaknesses	Aesthetic ceiling below Midjourney + Ideogram Text rendering worse than Ideogram No fine control	Data goes to servers in China — privacy concerns for business use Chinese policy filters English polish trails Western models	Still pre-launch / beta — zero proven track record and no public pricing yet iPhone-only by design, which immediately locks out half the smartphone market Battery drain and privacy concerns from constant ambient context scanning are real and unresolved	Writing quality trails Claude Over-refusals on edge content UI is cluttered
Kai's verdict	B-tier standalone, A-tier value if you already pay ChatGPT. Don't pay for it separately.	S-tier for price/performance. A-tier for consumer use. If you build apps, this is the budget pick.	The concept is genuinely compelling — turning the home screen into a living AI layer is a smarter bet than yet another chat interface — but this is vaporware until it ships publicly and we see whether Apple's sandbox lets it breathe. (Verdict pending Phi's full review.)	A-tier. The Deep Research feature is genuinely useful. Don't sleep on it if you're already paying Google.
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