ChatGPT
OpenAI
Conversational AI assistant capable of drafting text, answering questions, summarising documents and coding help. One of the most widely used AI tools globally.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2026
OpenAI
Conversational AI assistant capable of drafting text, answering questions, summarising documents and coding help. One of the most widely used AI tools globally.
Anthropic
AI assistant focused on being helpful, harmless and honest. Excels at long-context reasoning, document analysis, coding, and nuanced conversation.
Google DeepMind
Google's multimodal AI integrated with Search, Docs and Gmail. Strong at real-time information retrieval and cross-product productivity tasks.
Microsoft
Microsoft's AI assistant embedded across Windows, Office and Bing. Drafts emails, summarises meetings and generates spreadsheet formulas.
Midjourney Inc.
Industry-leading image generation model known for highly aesthetic painterly outputs. Operated via Discord and a web interface.
OpenAI
OpenAI's third-generation image model integrated into ChatGPT. Excels at following detailed prompts with coherent composition and text rendering.
Stability AI
Open-source image generation model runnable locally or via APIs. Highly customisable through LoRAs, ControlNet and community fine-tunes.
Adobe
Adobe's commercially safe generative image tool trained on licensed content. Integrated into Photoshop, Illustrator and Express.
GitHub / OpenAI
AI pair programmer that autocompletes code inline in VS Code and JetBrains. Supports dozens of languages and can explain or refactor existing code.
Anysphere
AI-first code editor built on VS Code. Offers whole-codebase chat, multi-file edits and autonomous bug fixing with GPT-4 and Claude models.
Anthropic
Agentic coding CLI that reads, edits and runs code autonomously in your terminal. Handles complex multi-file refactors and shell commands end-to-end.
Replit
Autonomous coding agent that builds full-stack apps from plain text inside Replit's browser IDE, handling setup, coding and deployment.
Suno AI
Generates full songs with vocals, production and instrumentation from a single text prompt in seconds. Used to create intro music, jingles, podcast music, royalty-free tracks and AI music channels on YouTube.
Udio
AI music generation platform offering studio-quality audio from text prompts. Known for realistic vocals and fine-grained style controls.
ElevenLabs
Text-to-speech and voice cloning platform with ultra-realistic output. Used for audiobooks, dubbing, AI companions and custom voice products.
Runway
State-of-the-art AI video generation model producing high-fidelity clips from text or image prompts. Widely used in creative and film production.
OpenAI
OpenAI's video generation model capable of creating realistic scenes up to a minute long from detailed text descriptions.
Kuaishou
AI video generator offering high-quality physically coherent video from text or image prompts, rivalling Sora in realism and motion quality.
Higgsfield
AI video and image creation platform built around realistic human motion and cinematic output. Features a creator earn programme where users get paid for posting AI videos to Instagram, and Sora 2 integration for 1080p text-to-video generation.
Dreamface
AI avatar and video creation tool that lets you upload a photo and generate lip-synced talking avatar videos with a cloned or chosen voice. Used for faceless YouTube channels, AI influencers, TikTok content, digital ads, brand mascots and freelance spokesperson videos for social media.
Gamma
AI presentation builder that generates polished, professional-looking decks, proposals, pitch decks, mood boards and branded PDFs from a text prompt in minutes. Removes the need for PowerPoint skills or a designer. Used by freelancers, agencies, coaches and consultants to take on more clients faster.
Canva
AI-powered design platform with Magic Design, text-to-image generation and one-click editing. Used to create thumbnails, social posts, book covers, presentations and marketing visuals without design experience.
DistroKid
Music distribution platform that puts AI-generated and human-made music onto Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Tidal and all major streaming platforms. Popular with creators monetising AI music made with tools like Suno.
Perplexity AI
AI-powered answer engine that searches the web in real time and cites sources for every claim. Ideal for research and fact-checking.
AI research assistant that lets you upload documents and chat with them. Auto-generates summaries, study guides and audio overviews from your sources.
Elicit
AI research assistant for academic literature. Extracts key findings from papers and synthesises evidence across studies for faster literature reviews.
Notion
AI writing and summarisation layer built into Notion. Drafts pages, summarises notes, generates action items and auto-fills databases.
Otter.ai
Real-time AI meeting transcription and summarisation. Captures speaker-labelled transcripts, action items and highlights from Zoom and Teams.
Zapier
AI-powered automation that lets you describe workflows in plain English. Connects 6,000+ apps without writing code.
Google Labs / DeepMind
Free AI marketing tool that scans your website to build a "Business DNA" profile capturing your brand colors, fonts and tone, then auto-generates on-brand social media campaigns, ad creatives and visuals for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and more. Currently free in public beta, available in 170+ countries.
Significant Gravitas
One of the first open-source autonomous AI agents. Chains GPT-4 calls to break down goals, browse the web, write files and execute code.
Cognition AI
First AI software engineer that autonomously plans and executes complex engineering tasks end-to-end: writing, testing, debugging and deploying code.
Monica AI
General-purpose autonomous AI agent that browses the web, writes code, manages files and completes multi-step tasks independently.
xAI
xAI chatbot with real-time access to X (Twitter) data. Known for its unfiltered tone and ability to answer questions about trending topics.
Meta
Meta's open-weight large language model family. Freely downloadable and fine-tuneable, powering thousands of custom AI applications worldwide.
Mistral AI
French AI company's family of efficient open-weight models. Excels at code and reasoning with low compute requirements.
Ideogram AI
AI image generator with best-in-class text rendering inside images. Ideal for logos, posters and social graphics needing legible words within visuals.
Hedra
Turns a portrait photo and audio clip into a realistic talking-head video. Popular for AI avatars, personalised messages and video content at scale.