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:

  • $20 monthly/Pro

Poe: Poe Allows you to create your own chatbot and engage in conversations with AI-powered bots.

Fees:

  • $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

synthesizing information

ExtensionBotv2: ExtensionBotv2 provides citations to Extension resources along with its responses

Fees:

  • Free 

UIUC Crop Wizard: Query land-grant and trusted sources in an LLM-enabled engine

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:

  • Free

Scite.ai: Citation database that indexes more than a million articles and has access to more than a billion citations.

Fees:

  • Free

image generation

Adobe Firefly: Text prompts to create the highest-quality output — images, text effects, and fresh color palettes.

Fees:

  • 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

DALL-E2: Image generator

Fees:

  • Free – _Purdue Microsoft

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

Gemini: Math and coding problems

Fees:

  • Free – _basic
  • $19.99 per month/Advanced

Copilot: Coding Assistant 

Fees:

  • Free – Purdue
  • $19.00 per month/Advanced

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

performing miscellaneous tasks

ChatBots: Purdue perspective student resources

Fees:

  • Free – _Purdue

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

Turnitin: AI writing detection tool (within Brightspace only)

Fees:

  • Free – _Purdue

Otter AI: Virtual Meeting Assistant – _minutes, summaries, action items

Fees:

  • $9.17 monthly/Pro
  • $20 monthly/Business