AI Toolbox
AI (Artificial Intelligence) Tools of General Interest
This is a compact list of readily available and commonly used AI applications. These tools facilitate various tasks, including generating/refining text, synthesizing information, generating images, analyzing data, coding, and performing miscellaneous tasks.
Free and versatile, Microsoft co-Pilot is free to all with @Purdue credentials. You may find it to be a good outline generator, text generator or editor, information synthesis tool, image creator, and code writing assistant. There is a sidebar extension for most browsers. Special note: you may want to experiment with the three modes of balanced, creative, and precise.
generating and refining text
ChatGPT/GPT4: Primarily used for natural language understanding and generation
Fees:
- Free
- $20 monthly/Premium
Rytr: AI content generator that lets content creators specify a content use case, tone of voice and keywords. It also comes with plugins for WordPress
Fees:
- Free
- $7.50 monthly/Unlimited
- $24.16 monthly/Premium
Claude: Claude brainstorms ideas, analyzes images, and processes long documents.
Fees:
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$20 monthly/Pro
Poe: Poe Allows you to create your own chatbot and engage in conversations with AI-powered bots.
Fees:
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$16.67 monthly/Premium
Compose AI: Write emails, create documents, chat faster, and use artificial intelligence to automate the writing process.
Frees:
- Free
- $9.99 monthly/Premium
- $29.99 monthly/Ultimate
ProWriting Aid: Advanced style suggestions and grammar analysis
Fees:
- Premium plans start at $20 per month, with discounts for annual and lifetime subscriptions.
Writesonic: Generates SEO-optimized blog posts and marketing content
Fees:
- Free trial available; premium plans start at $19 per month
Hemingway Editor: Simplifies complex writing and improves readability
Fees:
- Free version
- One-time purchase of $19.99 for the desktop app
synthesizing information
ExtensionBotv2: ExtensionBotv2 provides citations to Extension resources along with its responses
Fees:
- Free
Perplexity AI: A unique feature of Perplexity is that it can provide sources to back up the answers that it has generated. It functions more as a search engine than an original writer but still generates original content.
Fees:
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Free
Scite.ai: Citation database that indexes more than a million articles and has access to more than a billion citations.
Fees:
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Free
Scholarcy: Summarizes and highlights key points in research papers
Fees:
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Plans start at $7.99 per month
image generation
Adobe Firefly: Text prompts to create the highest-quality output — images, text effects, and fresh color palettes.
Fees:
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Free w/Adobe subscription
Canva: Popular no-code graphic design platforms that also offer AI image generation capabilities.
Fees:
- Free – Basic
- $14.99 monthly/Pro
- $119.99 yearly/pro
SlidesGo: AI feature for simple presentation outlines.
Fees:
- Free – Basic
- $23.99 yearly/Premium
- $13.99 yearly/for Educators
Stable Diffusion: AI's generator that can create photorealistic images from an input text. Stable Diffusion uses diffusion to create images.
Fees:
- Free 90-day trial
- In-app fees vary
Beautiful.ai: The DesignerBot helps create presentation slides quickly and brainstorm ideas, while smart templates on the platform give content creators a head start with their presentations
Fees:
- $12 monthly/Pro
- $40 monthly/Team
Stable Diffusion: AI's generator that can create photorealistic images from an input text. Stable Diffusion uses diffusion to create images.
Fees:
- Free 90-day trial
- In-app fees vary
Taranis: AI models provide unmatched insights, using the most extensive crop imagery dataset and a robust quality assurance process, backed by deep agronomic expertise
Fees:
- Free demos
- Plan pricing available depending on the services
analyzing data
Julius: Data science – _writes code then runs it to answer questions you pose to data you have provided.
Fees:
- $20 monthly/Basic
Watsonx.data: Access all your data through a single point of entry and share a single copy of data across your organization and workloads, without needing to migrate or re-catalog, reducing ETL and data duplication.
Fees:
- Free access w/ IBM acct
- Free trial using access code: WATSONXDATA
- Additional fees vary
AnyPicker: Data extraction, spreadsheets, etc.
Fees:
- Free - Basic
- $39 monthly/Pro
- $99 monthly/Business
analyzing code
CodeWP: AI code generator specifically for WordPress. It works with JavaScript, PHP, WooCommerce, Breakdance, Oxygen, and Regex conditions. CodeWP helps WordPress users by minimizing the time spent on development.
Fees:
- Free – _basic
- $28 monthly/Pro
- $68 monthly/Agency
Tabnine: Coding assistant that predicts and generates a programmer's next lines of code based on syntax. Tabnine makes suggestions based on a coder's style and programming patterns. It works with a variety of languages including Ruby, Python, Rust, and Go.
Fees:
- 90-day free trial
- $12 monthly/Pro
- $39 monthly/Enterprise
DeepCode (Snyk AI): AI-powered static code analysis for security vulnerabilities
Fees:
- Free tier available for individuals.
Power BI: Turn your data into visuals with advanced data-analysis tools, AI capabilities, and a user-friendly report-creation tool
Fees:
- Free for individual use with limited features.
- Pro: $9.99/user/month.
- Premium: Starts at $20/user/month.
performing miscellaneous tasks
Ranedeer: Configuration file for ChatGPT 4.0, to set it up as a private tutor that works on any topics. It supports customizable "courses" both at the beginning of the course (e.g., "I know C++; teach me Rust") and while the user takes the course (e.g., "The content you show now is more about backend development
Fees:
- Free – _Basic
- $3.67 monthly/Team
- $19.25 monthly/Enterprise
Otter AI: Virtual Meeting Assistant – _minutes, summaries, action items
Fees:
- $9.17 monthly/Pro
- $20 monthly/Business
Grok AI: Various functionalities, including real-time information retrieval, image generation based on textual descriptions, and advanced reasoning capabilities for complex problem-solving. Notably, it includes modes like "Think" for step-by-step reasoning and "Big Brain" for handling more demanding tasks.
Fees:
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X Premium+: Priced at $40 per month, this plan provides full access to Grok's features, an ad-free experience, the ability to publish articles, and prioritized engagement on the platform.
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SuperGrok: Offered at $30 per month, this subscription includes advanced features and early access to new functionalities.
SummarizeBot: AI for document summarization
Fees:
- Offers customizable solutions; pricing details are available upon request