Popular GenAI Tools

• ChatGPT - launched in November 2022 by OpenAI, and has been credited with catalyzing widespread interest in generative AI.
• ChatPDF - One specific use case that might be very relevant for most users is to be able to ‘chat’ with a PDF document. This might be a research article, a printout of a web page (saved as .pdf), or a PDF of a book. It is a very simple and elegant solution. There are limitations on how much you can use it for free. This feature will be subsumed in one of the other platforms soon, but for now, it is an excellent tool.  
• Elicit - Advanced Semantic Search finds relevant papers using semantic similarity, even if they don’t match specific keywords, expanding the scope of your research.
• Google Gemini - A free interface available to everyone with a Google account. Gemini is a multimodal AI model, which means it can understand and generate text, as well as other types of information like images, audio, videos, and code. It was released in February 2024. Some AI capabilities are already integrated into other Google tools. 
• Grok - developed by xAI as an AI search assistant. X Premium and Premium+ subscribers have the ability to conduct searches and get answers using Grok, as an enhancement of X's search functions.
• Microsoft Bing Chat - A free interface available to all. Powered by OpenAI models. Currently requires downloading the Microsoft Edge browser to access the chat feature. Has default access to the web and is powered by the latest models from OpenAI, so for normal usage this could be considered a free version, versus the paid version from OpenAI. Microsoft has also enabled plugins for several services and will continue to add more. They have also committed to following the same standard for plugins as OpenAI, so the plugins developed once will work across both interfaces. Given that Microsoft is currently offering OpenAI models for free, and adding plugins support, it seems the best free option, and it includes references as well. 
• Microsoft Copilot - GenAI companion to inform, entertain, and inspire. Get advice, feedback, and straightforward answers.
• Perplexity - If you are looking for a response from a model that includes an aggregation of search and a generative model and present it with references, this is a good option. Microsoft Bing chat also includes references in its response, so this is not specific to Perplexity, though the experience is better with this tool. 
• Quillbot - Drop in articles - can summarize and create annotated bibliography
• Scholarcy - Scholarcy is an AI-powered article summarizer that reads research articles, reports, and book chapters in seconds. Identify key information such as study participants, data analyses, main findings, and limitations to reduce the time spent appraising a study by over 70%.
• Semantic Scholar - Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, providing access to over 211 million papers from all fields of science.
• SkipIt - Summarize and chat withYouTube videos via question and response.

Popular GenAI Image, Video, and Audio Tools

• Adobe Firefly – Generative AI can be used for images, audio, and video. Adobe Firefly (beta) is currently available via university license and lets you quickly create graphics. Two powerful features include: “text to image” to generate images from a detailed text description and “generative fill” which makes it easy to remove objects or paint in new ones by supplying text descriptions. Other features include text effects, generative recolor, 3D to image, and extending images. 
• DALL-E - generate images with a text prompt in ChatGPT with DALL-E.
• Descript - Edit your videos & podcasts just by typing. Descript's powerful AI editing tools let you make videos, podcasts, & short clips for social fast.
• Limewire - free AI Art generator that turns your words masterpieces! Use the LimeWire AI Studio to create images, videos, and audio content.
• Midjourney - a GenAI program and service created and hosted by the San Francisco-based independent research lab Midjourney, Inc. Midjourney generates images from natural language descriptions, called prompts. Get more information on Midjourney Prompts.
• Murf.ai - Generate natural-sounding voiceovers and dubs in multiple languages, streamline multimedia production, and explore endless creative possibilities.
• OpenArt AI - Free image generator with 100+ models and advanced options and controls.
• Photoshop Generative Fill - powered by the new Adobe Firefly Image 3 Model, is now in the Photoshop (beta) app. Create richer, more lifelike images with more control than ever before.
• Sora - create video from text with OpenAI's Sora.
• Stable Audio - an open-source model optimized for generating short audio samples, sound effects, and production elements using text prompts.
• Stable Video - from Stability.ai Stable Video allows users to create videos based on text prompts.

For a full searchable list of AI Tools, check out the AI Scout Directory.