Artificial Intelligence

for art and presentations:

• Decohere: allows individuals to produce videos, images, and artistic creations in an instant. Boasting cutting-edge technology, it features the quickest AI generator available, facilitating immediate creative expression without any lag. The Explorer plan, designed for hobbyists, costs $7.99 per month (or $9/month without a discount. For content creators, the Creator plan costs $19.99 per month (or $29/month without a discount). A Director plan, targeted at professionals, is available for $29.99 per month (or $59/month without discount).

• OpenArt: platform where users can generate and edit images. It offers a variety of AI models, styles, and tools to create unique artwork. Users can also customize their creations with features like artistic style transfer, customizable filters, and high-resolution outputs. Additionally, OpenArt provides an active community for users to connect, share ideas, and collaborate. The Essential plan is $14 per month (or $7 per month with an annual subscription) and includes 4,000 credits, up to 4000 images or 40 videos, consistent characters, personalized models, and more. The Advanced plan costs $29 per month (or $14.50 per month with an annual subscription) and offers 12,000 credits, up to 1,200 images or 120 videos, more consistent characters & personalized models, and additional features. The Infinite plan, designed for ultimate features, costs $56 per month (or $28 per month with an annual subscription) and provides 24,000 credits, up to 24,000 images or 240 videos, and even more consistent characters & personalized models.

• Artflow: Both Artflow  & OpenArt are AI platforms for creating digital art, but they differ in their primary focus & features. Artflow emphasizes text-to-image generation and video creation, while OpenArt provides a broader suite of AI art tools, including model training & image editing. Artflow is geared towards creators & storytellers needing to quickly generate content from text, whereas OpenArt offers more advanced options for users who want to customize & refine their AI-generated art. The pricing for Artflow starts at $6.42 per month. Artflow has 2 different plans: Starter Plan at $6.42 per month. PRO Plan at $20.00 per month.

• Canva: combines various AI-powered tools into a single, user-friendly interface, allowing users to generate designs, write content, and more, using text or voice commands. Makes design creation more accessible and efficient for everyone, regardless of their design expertise. It combines various existing and new AI features within Canva, such as Magic Design, Magic Edit, and Magic Write, making them easily accessible from one place. Used for creating content for social media, blog posts, presentations and marketing materials. Can edit photos & videos. The free version offers basic design tools and a limited library of templates and assets. Canva Pro, for individuals, costs $12.99 per month or $119.99 per year, and Canva for Teams, designed for groups, starts at $14.99 per month for the first five users. Canva Enterprise, for large organizations, offers custom pricing. Additionally, Canva for Education is free for eligible K-12 teachers and students. Canva for Nonprofits is also free for up to 50 users.

for music:

• Suno: generates music, specifically songs, from text prompts of by providing your own lyrics. It allows users to create a variety of musical styles and genres, including incorporating vocals and instrumental music. Suno's services include generating songs for specific purposes, like making songs for workouts or the holidays.  Enables users to extend songs. Users can extract individual stems (instrumental tracks) from generated songs for further editing or use in other music production software. Collaboration with the user occurs in real-time on Discord. Suno is available as a plugin in Microsoft Copilot. Suno provides a free version with daily credits for generating songs, with paid subscription options for more credits. (Three cost options: free, $10 monthly, $30 monthly)

for video:

• Veo 3: generates high-definition videos from text prompts, including synchronized audio. Veo 3 can create realistic-looking clips with dialogue, ambient sounds, and background music, effectively creating soundscapes alongside the video content. Veo 3 excels in producing photorealistic & realistic videos, focusing on physics, realism, and prompt adherence. Veo 3 generates audio natively, including dialogue, ambient noise, sound effects, and music, all synchronized with the video. Veo 3 can maintain consistent characters across multiple video clips. Users can fine-tune camera angles, framing, and movements to achieve precise & cinematic results. Veo 3 is known for its strong adherence to prompts, delivering highly realistic and detailed videos based on the user's input. (monthly $249.99) Veo 3 is also accessible through Gemini, Google's AI chatbot. Google also provides access to Veo 3 through Flow, an AI filmmaking tool built for creatives. Additionally, Veo 3 is integrated into Google's Vertex AI platform for enterprise users, targeting media studios & advertising agencies.

• Sora: unlike Veo 3, it doesn't incorporate fully realized audio, like dialogue soundscapes, along with the video.

  Sora, a text-to-video model that generates videos from text descriptions, created by the OpenAI company.

  It is not available as a standalone product and is integrated into the ChatGPT subscription plans.

  It is accessible through both ChatGPT Plus ($20/month) and ChatGPT Pro ($200/month) plans. The Plus plan offers limited video generations at 720p resolution, while the Pro plan provides higher resolution (1080p) and more features. 

• Flow: versatile tool, uses include automating customer service, restaurant inventory management, and sales process automation. Flow.ai on Square acts as an intelligent inventory assistant for restaurants. It automates data capture, analyzes trends, and helps manage stock. Users can snap photos of invoices and count sheets, and Flow.ai will automatically extract and categorize the data. Offers solutions for automating sales processes, helping sales reps achieve quotas & increase productivity. It can also help identify more prospects, leading to more closed deals and increased revenue. Provides a platform for designing, developing, and managing conversational AI chatbots. These chatbots can be used for customer service and marketing. Includes tools with a drag-and-drop interface, natural language processing, and virtual assistants. Flow also creates AI-powered video content. Creates cinematic clips, scenes & stories from text prompts & images. Includes features like camera controls & the ability to reuse previous frames. Flow.ai offers 3 main tiers with pricing ranging from $480 to $1080 per user annually. Wispr Flow has a free basic tier, a $15/month Pro plan, and a $12/user/month Teams plan. Google Flow AI offers an AI Ultra plan for $249.99 per month. Voice Note Taker App (Apple App Store) has in-app purchases include a Pro Weekly Plan for $9.99 or a Pro Yearly Plan for $49.99.

for video editing:

• Runway: Offers tools for creating new content, including text-to-image and video manipulation. Provides tools for visual effects, motion graphics, and other creative endeavors. Allows for the creation of entirely new content based on text prompts: 1) Upload your image 2) Provide a description of the scene 3) Click Generate and Runway Gen 3 Video Generator will swiftly create a 10-second high-quality motion video. Runway AI offers several subscription plans with varying features and costs, ranging from a free tier to custom enterprise solutions. The paid plans include Standard ($15/month), Pro ($35/month), and Unlimited ($95/month).

• Descript: Descript and Runway excel in different areas. Descript is known for its text-based editing, making it exceptionally easy to edit audio and video by manipulating transcripts, while Runway offers a broader suite of generative AI capabilities for creating entirely new content. Descript simplifies editing by allowing users to edit audio and video like a document. It offers accurate & fast transcription with automatic speaker detection. It's an all-in-one platform, combining recording, editing and publishing capabilities. It includes features like Studio Sound for noise reduction and Overdub for voice cloning. It is well-suited for podcasters, content creators and those needing to streamline their workflow. It requires less technical expertise than Runway. Descript is a better choice for users focused solely on straightforward audio & video editing. If you're on the free plan, Descript offers one watermark-free video export every month. And if you want to export more videos, you'll see a watermark. In order to remove the watermark from future video exports, you can upgrade to $12/month for a Hobbyist, $24/month for Creator, and $40/month for Business.

• Adobe Premiere Pro: A professional-level video editing software with AI-powered enhancements.

• Canva: A good option for basic to intermediate video editing, particularly for social media and marketing content. It offers a user-friendly interface with drag-and-drop functionality, a vast library of templates, and various design elements. Its features include text-to-video, auto-visual effects, and AI avatars (digital representations of individuals, powered by AI, that can mimic human appearance, voice, gestures and movements. They can be based on real people or be entirely fictional characters). 

• Pictory: Has a user-friendly and intuitive interface, making it accessible even for users without extensive video editing experience. Its text-based video editing allows for simple edits, similar to editing a document. Features script-to-video conversion, automatic captions and AI voiceovers. Provides access to millions of stock videos, images and music tracks, eliminating the need to search for assets externally. Its ability to repurpose existing content (blogs, scripts, etc.) into videos streamlines the creation process. Well-suited for content marketers, social media managers, bloggers, and anyone who needs to quickly create short, engaging videos from text-based content.

• Wisecut: Designed to be easy to use, even for those with limited video editing experience. Automatically edits videos based on speech, cutting out silences. Transcribes audio for subtitle generation. The automation features can significantly reduce the time required for video editing, allowing users to focus on other aspects of content creation. Excels at breaking down longer videos into shorter, more engaging clips. While Wisecut is great for basic and quick edits, it might not be suitable for users who need highly advanced or detailed editing options. Wisecut doesn't add watermarks to videos, which is a plus for professional-looking content.

for photo editing:

• Adobe Photoshop: A comprehensive photo editing and design app with extensive AI capabilities. 

• Pixlr: A good option for online AI editing, especially for those looking for an easy-to-use interface. 

• Luminar Neo: User-friendly features, excels at enhancing & manipulating still images.

• Canva: Good option for photo editing, especially for users who are not professional graphic designers or don't need highly complex editing features. It's known for its user-friendly interface and drag-and-drop functionality, making it easy to use for basic to intermediate photo enhancements. For basic edits, it adjusts brightness, contrast, saturation, and other color settings. It crops photos to different aspect ratios and resizes them easily. Can apply effects and filters to enhance photos. Adds text, icons, stickers, and other elements to photos. Removes or replaces backgrounds for images. Removes objects with Magic Eraser. Leverages pre-designed templates for social media posts and presentations. Canva is web-based and doesn't require a powerful computer. For professional-level editing, specialized software like Photoshop remains the top choice.

for transcriptions:

• Whisper: An API (Application Programming Interface) developed by the OpenAI company. It includes a speech recognition system that converts audio input into text. Costs $0.006 per minute for transcription. This translates to $0.36 per hour. For example, transcribing 500 hours of audio would cost between $180-$360, depending on the quality level. 

• Azure: Whisper offered through Microsoft Speech Batch. Also $0.36/hour.

• Google Speech-to-Text: the first 4 million characters are free each month.

for website creation:

• Gamma AI: primarily used for creating presentations, documents and simple webpages, leveraging AI to automate the design and content generation process. It allows users to generate these materials from simple text prompts, or by uploading existing files. Gamma AI is particularly useful for quickly producing visually appealing and professional-looking content without needing extensive design skills

for information generation:

• Chat GTP: Conversational model created by Open AI company with a broad range of applications. Key Features: Natural language understanding, text generation, multilingual capabilities, coding and technical assistance. Used for answering questions, generating text, translating languages, summarizing content, and coding. The basic ChatGPT-3.5 is free to use after signing up for an account. For enhanced features like faster responses, access to DALL-E (a text-to-image tool that can generate original images from text descriptions and edit existing images), & access to GPT4, there's a paid subscription called ChatGPT Plus for $20 per month. Additionally, there are team & enterprise plans for businesses with custom pricing.

• Gemini: Gemini searches the internet using the Google search engine. Gemini is a large language model developed by Google with multimodal capabilities (text, images, audio, video). Gemini is not as versatile for general knowledge as ChatGPT, but Gemini generally produces higher-quality images than ChatGPT. Gemini Pro, the free version, handles general questions & writing tasks. Can summarize PDFs and Word files. It can be accessed through a mobile app and is integrated into various Google Workspace apps like Gmail, Docs, and Sheets. For more advanced features and capabilities, including access to Gemini Advanced and integration with Google Workspace apps and 2TB of storage, users can subscribe to Google One AI Premium for $19.99 monthly.

• Copilot: Copilot searches the internet using its Bing search engine. The Copilot feature is the latest in a series of refinements and upgrades to Scopus AI. It helps researchers & institutions quickly understand complex topics by providing instant, intuitive & fully referenced summaries. It utilizes both keyword & vector search techniques (for semantic meaning) to optimize responses to highly specific or complex queries. It also helps with language translation and can break down complex questions into more manageable components. Has deep integration with Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.), but is less versatile for general knowledge than ChatGPT and can do fewer creative tasks than GPT.

• Perplexity AI: Searches the web using the Bing search engine. Perplexity finds information quickly, concisely, and summarizes it with internet source citations, helping explore topics effectively. Perplexity is generally considered more dependable for factual queries than ChatGPT, but is less versatile than ChatGPT. Perplexity can provide concise, detailed answers with web citations to complex questions, while Copilot offers more general information. Perplexity is good for surface-level understanding, while Gemini's Deep Research feature is better for in-depth analysis and comprehensive reports. 

• Notebook LM: While Perplexity is web-based, Notebook is document-focused research. Notebook is a feature within Microsoft Copilot. Copilot is a broader AI assistant, while Notebook is a specific interface within Copilot specifically designed to work with specific texts and long documents, like book-length manuscripts, for analysis and data extraction. It now uses Google's Gemini text-based features to research and take notes by understanding & summarizing information from various sources. It can create study guides, answer questions, and engage in interactive discussions based on that content. It allows users to upload documents like PDFs, Google Docs & even websites, then provides features like summaries, audio overviews and creative idea generation. Essentially acts as a personalized AI assistant for understanding and engaging with complex information.

• Claude AI: Searches the internet using Brave Search as its primary search engine. Claude excels at complex reasoning, language comprehension and content creation. Claude can help with various writing tasks in different writing styles, from drafting emails and essays to creative writing like screenplays and novels. It can also edit manuscripts and assist with summarizing long documents, articles & conversations. Claude can analyze uploaded documents (PDFs, text files, etc.) and provide summaries and insights and help edit. It can also conduct in-depth research, searching the web and synthesizing information with citations. It can analyze data, create visualizations and help with decision-making. Claude engages in natural, human-like long conversations and deep discussions, answering questions and complex prompts. It can be a helpful brainstorming partner, offering different perspectives and ideas. Claude can process and understand both text and image inputs, making it useful for tasks like analyzing charts and graphs. Claude can generate code in various programming languages, including Python, and help with tasks like debugging and code review. Claude offers a free plan with basic access to capabilities on the web, iOS, and Android. The Pro plan costs $20 per month (or $200 annually). It offers priority access and access to more advanced models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Opus.

for advanced research:

• Scopus AI: Scopus is an abstract & citation database. It provides features like topic summaries, citation analysis, & expert recommendations. 

• Litmaps: Focuses on creating visual maps of citations to help users discover related research. Helps visualize & organize academic literature by mapping the connections between articles through citations & references. It uses the citation network, where articles are connected if they cite each other. It visually represents this network, allowing users to see how different papers relate to each other. Unlike ResearchRabbit, the positions on Litmaps are not random; the axes correspond to the publication date and citation count, respectively. This pushes relevant papers to the top right of the graph (i.e. recent, and with many citations). Moreover, ResearchRabbit can be overwhelming since it finds 1000s of papers, while Litmaps gives you the most relevant ones 10 at a time. By using a starting article, Litmaps can find related literature by identifying the articles that are most connected. It can automatically generate alerts for new relevant papers. Finds a broader range of articles than traditional keyword searches. It helps researchers organize their literature by creating & managing literature maps. Allows users to share their literature maps with others. Free Litmaps offers basic research with up to 20 inputs, for a visualization of 2 Litmaps with 100 articles on a map per month. Litmaps Pro is $8 per month and provides unlimited Litmaps with unlimited articles with unlimited inputs.

• ResearchRabbit: Finds a lot of papers (1000s), and it does so surprisingly fast. If you want to exhaustively look through literature and quickly grasp the importance of a paper from its title and a glance at the abstract, ResearchRabbit serves you well. This comes at the cost of a slightly messy and overwhelming interface. One of the best features is the search for authors, which allows you to explore a field in more depth, by following its most important scholars. ResearchRabbit works well with Zotero, a free, open-source reference management software that helps users collect, organize, cite, and share research sources. It allows you to save citations from various sources like online articles, books, websites, and more, and then organize them into collections for different projects. Zotero also integrates with word processors like Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and LibreOffice to easily insert citations and generate bibliographies. ResearchRabbit is free, while Litmaps is subscription-based.

• Connected Papers: similar to Litmaps but with simple user interface, designed for quick exploration, a more limited data source (primarily Semantic Scholar), and doesn't allow iterative refinement of maps (adding or deleting). Connected papers offers a free plan with 5 graphs per month and 2 paid plans. The Academic plan costs $6 per month (billed annually) for unlimited graphs and features for academics, non-profits, and personal use. The Business plan costs $20 per month (also billed annually) and provides unlimited graphs and features for business and industry. All plans include features like similarity graphs, prior and derivative works, multi-origin graphs, saved papers and graph history.

• Inciteful.xyz:  similar to Litmaps; online tool for researchers to explore academic literature through citations; identifies the most influential researcher in their field. Free.

• Keenious: unlike Litmaps, which focuses on citation networks, Keenious analyzes the text of a document to recommend similar articles. It provides recommendations based on the content of the text, rather than just keywords. Allows users to highlight specific sections of a document and get tailored research recommendations for those highlighted areas. Suggests related topics and filters recommendations based on those topics. Offers advanced filtering options to narrow down recommendations based on publication date, citation count, and other criteria. Allows users to analyze their drafts and get research recommendations directly within their writing content. Keenious offers both a free and a paid version. The free version has limitations on document length and the number of results it provides. The paid version, Keenious Plus, costs $20 per month and offers full access.

• DeepSeek: some US states, like Texas, New York and Virginia have banned DeepSeek on state government-owned devices and networks due to national security and data privacy concerns.

for summaries:

• Notta: summarizes meeting transcripts.

• CoCounsel: AI legal assistant that helps with document analysis and summarization for legal professionals.

• Get Digest: specializes in summarizing key sentences from business reports and other lengthy documents.

• Hypotenuse AI: good for summarizing books and other long-form content, with a focus on accuracy and key point extraction.

• Scribbr: ideal for academic writing, offering summaries of research papers.

• Grammarly's AI Summarizer: provides well-worded summaries and helps identify key points.

• QuillBot: summarizes articles and web pages, though not the best for very long content.

• TLDRThis: a browser extension that provides quick, one-click summarization of articles and web pages.

• Xmind AI: summarizes PDFs and creates mind maps of key insights.

• Recall: YouTube video summarizer.

• Eightify: YouTube video summarizer.

• SummarizeBot: a versatile tool that can summarize text, audio, images and videos.

• Monica: Can quickly summarize lengthy web pages, PDFs and YouTube videos, extracting. It can also analyze research papers, providing insights and explanations.

for editing:

• Grammarly: Generally considered the best for writing, includes grammar, spelling, punctuation and style suggestions.

• Paragraph AI: Writing tool that can also help with editing.

• Frase: Strong SEO features, make it a good choice for content creation.

• Rubriq: Focuses on independent peer review to streamline the journal submission process.

• Paperpal: Proofreads & edits manuscripts. Improves the quality of academic writing, from language and grammar to plagiarism checks and citation assistance. Primarily suited for academic & technical writing (may not be as effective for other writing styles). Supports translation to and from over 30 languages. The translations are powered by DeepL Pro.

• Claude: Known for its natural-sounding output and ability to handle longer texts.

for business:

• Jasper: Platform purpose-built to keep your marketing content real and unmistakably brand aligned. Allows saving information about a company, brand, and products. It utilizes natural language processing (NLP) to understand and generate human-like text for various purposes, including blog posts, social media content, marketing copy (the written content used to inform, persuade, and/or entertain audience, ultimately aiming to encourage them to take a specific action, such as making a purchase or signing up for a service. It's the text that drives a marketing campaign, from ads and website copy to social media posts and email newsletters.

• Tableau AI: powered by Einstein, it is designed to enhance data analysis and visualization capabilities, making it easier for users to extract insights and make data-driven decisions. It offers features like smart suggestions, automated data preparation and predictive analytics, streamlining workflows and empowering users to explore data more effectively.

• Monica: helps generate reports, marketing copy and social media posts

best chatbots:

• Claude: often highlighted for its ability to handle long conversations & engage in deep discussions.

• ChatGPT

• Copilot

• Perplexity AI

• Gemini (formerly Bard): strong complex reasoning

for voice: 

• Synthflow AI: a no-code platform that allows businesses to create and deploy AI-powered voice assistants to handle inbound and outbound calls, schedule appointments, answer questions, and more. It uses advanced voice technology to simulate human-like conversations, enabling businesses to automate call management and enhance customer interactions. Syntflow AI offers a range of plans from $29 to $1400 per month.

for translation:

• Google Translate: a popular choice due to its wide language support and ease of use, offering real-time text and speech translation, image translation and offline capabilities. It's generally good for general-purpose translations and informal communication. 

• Amazon Translate: Powerful tool for large-scale multilingual projects.

• DeepL Translate: Known for its high accuracy and ability to capture context and idiomatic expressions, making it a good option for more complex or nuanced translations. Natural-sounding translations, especially in European languages. 

• QuillBot: High accuracy in English to Arabic translations.

• Wordvice AI: Uses large language models to provide natural and precise translations of academic and professional writing.

• ChatGPT: AI assisted rewriting and drafting of multilingual content.

• Merlin AI: Offers quick and reliable translations for documents, websites, and casual text. Supports over 130 languages.

• Microsoft Translator: provides real-time translation for conversations and documents.

• Smartcat: A platform that connects users with professional translators and translation agencies. Offers AI-powered translation features for various formats, including files, videos and websites.

• Trados Studio: A desktop-based CAT tool with robust AI features for professional translators.

• MeteCat: An open-source platform for professional translation.

for science: 

• AMIE: which stands for Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer, is a research AI system developed by Google Research and Google DeepMind. It is designed for diagnostic conversations with patients, using a large language model (LLM) that is specifically fine-tuned for medical dialogue. It aims to gather information, understand the symptoms, formulate potential diagnoses, suggest treatment and monitor patient progress over time. Recent advancements enable AMIE to process visual information, like photos. AMIE offers a free plan and a Pro plan, with pricing dependent on whether you choose monthly or annual billing. The Pro plan is $20 per user per month when billed annually, or $25 per user per month when billed monthly.

• Scite AI: helps researchers understand and evaluate scientific literature, focusing on citation analysis and identifying the context of citations. Scite offers two subscription plans: a monthly plan for $20 and a yearly plan for $12 monthly billed annually at $144. The yearly plan provides a 40% discount compared to the monthly option. Scite also offers Institutional Subscriptions for companies & universities based on the number of licenses needed.

for grading:

• Smodin AI Grader: can assess both multiple-choice and free-response questions, including longer essays, using plagiarism detection, grammar checking and content evaluation.

• GoGrader: focuses on rubric-based grading and feedback for written assignments, allowing teachers to import rubrics and receive instant feedback.

• EasyGrader: specifically designed for grading essays, providing feedback and scoring based on AI analysis.

• Graded Pro: fully integrated with Google Classroom and supports various educational standards.

for code writing:

• VS Code: Visual Studio Code is a helpful tool for people who write code, like for websites or apps. Works on different types of computers to help write code without mistakes, manage changes & understand one's code better. It's a popular code editor that's available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The core code editor, including features like integrated Git, debugging, and extensions, is free, but if you need more comprehensive tools, including access to other Microsoft software, testing and deployment tools, and support, subscriptions range from $45 to $250 per month.