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	Perplexity S	ChatGPT Operator B	smol-audio A	Skye A
Tagline	AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater.	OpenAI's browser agent. Clicks and types on websites for you.	A free, open collection of Colab notebooks that makes fine-tuning Whisper, Parakeet, Voxtral, Granite Speech, and Audio Flamingo 3 actually approachable on commodity GPUs.	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.
Category	Research	Agents	Audio	Agents
Pricing	Free + $20/mo Pro	Included with ChatGPT Pro $200/mo	Free (open-source, Apache 2.0)	Waitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)
Best for	Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds.	Power users willing to pay $200/mo for a browser bot.	ML engineers and audio researchers who want reproducible, low-friction recipes for fine-tuning open-source speech models on custom domains without standing up their own GPU infra.	iPhone power users who are frustrated that Siri is still reactive and want their home screen to actually anticipate their day.
Strengths	Sources every claim Fast, current answers Pro Search runs multi-step research Spaces for persistent context	Actually uses websites — fills forms, clicks, checks out Built into ChatGPT Good for repetitive web tasks	Covers five distinct state-of-the-art audio models in one repo — rare breadth for a single toolkit Designed to run on a standard 16 GB Colab T4 GPU, no local hardware needed Exposes full training loops and data pipelines transparently within the HuggingFace ecosystem (transformers, peft, accelerate, datasets) LoRA support baked in for memory-heavy models like Audio Flamingo 3 and Voxtral Apache 2.0 license — fully hackable and production-ready	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
Weaknesses	Not a general chatbot Answers can be shallow on complex topics	Slow vs doing it yourself Breaks on complex auth flows $200/mo gate	No UI or web app — purely notebook-based, so non-developers need not apply Very new (released late April 2026), so community vetting, bug reports, and long-term maintenance are unproven Colab's free tier GPU availability is unreliable; longer fine-tuning runs may timeout or OOM without Colab Pro	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
Kai's verdict	S-tier for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week.	B-tier. Still early. Manus is more flexible for less money.	If you've ever rage-quit trying to fine-tune Whisper on a niche language or domain, smol-audio is the cookbook you wished existed — transparent, practical, and actually runs on free Colab. It's a practitioner's toolkit, not a product, but that's exactly what makes it useful. (Verdict pending Phi's full review.)	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.)
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