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AI stuff
A short list of AI tools worth knowing about. This used to be a much longer directory, but this space moves so fast that a big list goes out of date quickly, so I've cut it down to these.
More on this site: AI Coding Assistant Comparison Report and Responsible AI.
Chat assistants
- ChatGPT - OpenAI's general purpose assistant
- Claude - Anthropic's general purpose assistant
- Gemini - Google's general purpose assistant, connected to Google search and apps
- Duck.ai - DuckDuckGo's private front end to several different models
- Lumo - privacy focused assistant from Proton
Search & research
- Perplexity - web search that gives summarized answers with citations
- NotebookLM - upload your own documents and ask questions based off of them
- Elicit - find, summarize, and extract data from academic papers
- Semantic Scholar - free AI-powered search for scientific literature
Images, audio & video
- Midjourney - image generator known for its artistic style
- FLUX - image models from Black Forest Labs
- ElevenLabs - realistic text-to-speech and voice cloning
- Suno - generates complete songs with lyrics and vocals from a text prompt
- Descript - edit audio and video by editing the transcript
AI code editors
- Cursor - VS Code based editor built around AI
- Kiro - AWS's agentic IDE, built around turning requests into specs
- Replit - cloud IDE with an agent that can build apps with no local setup
Coding agents in the terminal
- Claude Code - Anthropic's coding agent
- Codex CLI - OpenAI's coding agent
- Crush - coding agent from Charm that connects to many different AI backends (written in Go)
- Gemini CLI - Google's open source coding agent
- opencode - open source coding agent
- sidecar - runs next to your CLI agents to show diffs, file trees, conversation history and tasks (written in Go)
Running AI locally
- Ollama - the easy way to download and run LLMs on your own machine
- Pinokio - a sort of "package manager" for AI apps on your computer
- AnythingLLM - local-first app for chatting with your own documents
- Fabric - framework with a crowdsourced set of prompts for everyday tasks
