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Pexo is an AI video agent that produces launch and product videos from a conversation. It's for founders, marketers and product teams who need a polished video and have no interest in learning to edit one. You share your product, website or assets, and Pexo plans the story, writes the script, picks an AI model for each step and assembles the final cut with voiceover, music and captions. There is no timeline to work in: you click a frame or circle what you want changed, and Pexo makes the edit. If you want more control, you can bring your own script and review the storyboard before production starts.

Kling 3.0 makes realistic video clips from a text prompt or a reference image, with sound, lip-synced dialogue and movement that obeys physics. People are where it shines. Walking, running and gestures look natural enough to actually use, which still isn't true of most AI video. It can generate up to six connected shots in one go, so you spend less time stitching clips together. The free plan gives you 66 credits a day at 1080p, enough to find out if it suits your work. Professional mode costs twice the credits for harder prompts. Keep in mind that it makes clips and doesn't edit them. You'll still need a video editor to put the final piece together. And if you'd rather steer a scene live than wait for a file, try PixVerse R2.

Hob is a free desktop assistant that runs entirely on your own computer. Install it and it picks an open model that fits your machine, such as Google's Gemma or OpenAI's gpt-oss, then downloads and sets it up. After that you use it like ChatGPT, with one difference: your chats and files never leave the laptop. No account, no subscription, no telemetry, and it keeps working offline. It does real file work. Point it at a folder and it can read a sales spreadsheet and chart revenue by region, fill out a PDF form, or edit a document. It asks before every change and lets you undo one it got wrong. On Mac, Mail and Calendar are built in. It needs 8 GB of RAM at minimum, 16 GB for everyday work, and 10 to 25 GB of disk. It runs on Apple silicon Macs, Windows, and Linux, and it's MIT-licensed by Frigade.

Strawberry is a desktop browser for Mac and Windows with AI "companions" that work inside your open tabs. Ask Sales Sally for prospects from LinkedIn and she builds the lead list in a Google Sheet, with company names and a fit rating. Talent Theo scores candidates against a role. Executive Ellis writes a morning brief and tracks follow-ups. You can also build your own companion around a process your team repeats every week. Because it's a real browser, the companions can work on pages behind your logins, like LinkedIn, HubSpot, and Gmail. Strawberry says passwords, cookies, and history stay on your machine, and you set permissions per app and per action. It also transcribes Zoom, Teams, and Meet calls without a bot joining. Browsing is free. Companion work costs credits: 500 a month free, then $20 for 6,000, up to $250 for 75,000.