AI Tools Collection

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This curated collection highlights a wide range of AI tools currently in use across education, research, and creative industries. Tools are grouped by function—from writing and search to image generation and course design—and include brief descriptions and direct links. Whether you’re exploring generative AI for the first time or comparing platforms for specific tasks, this list offers a practical starting point.

Conversation and Search Engine

  • ChatGPT: the most used AI chatbot as of 2024.
  • Copilot: Microsoft’s AI tool, offering enhanced security features for Virginia Tech accounts.
  • Claude: highly capable tool for natural language processing.
  • Gemini: an AI model developed by Google.
  • Perplexity: search engine that provides accurate and relevant search results.

Writing, Editing, and Presenting

  • DeepL: a translation tool known for its high-quality translations.
  • Notion AI: AI app that integrates with Notion to enhance productivity by automating content generation.
  • Grammarly: an AI assistant that provides grammar, punctuation, and style suggestions.
  • Canva: a user-friendly graphic design tool with AI-powered design suggestions and templates.

Image and Art Generation

  • Leonardo.ai: AI-powered creative tools for generating and editing images.
  • Midjourney: an AI-powered platform that creates high-quality, realistic images from textual descriptions.
  • Vizcom: a digital tool that allows designers to create and visualize 3D sketches in real-time.
  • DALL-E 3: an AI model that generates unique images from textual descriptions.
  • Mooed: a creative tool for designers to quickly generate inspiration boards.
  • Stable Diffusion: an AI model that generates high-quality, detailed images from text prompts.
  • Civitai: web-based image generator.
  • Skybox AI: a tool for creating 360-degree panoramic images and environments using AI.
  • Adobe Firefly: Adobe's suite of generative AI tools for creating, editing, and enhancing images and designs.

Video Generation

  • Lumalabs.ai: AI-driven tools for video creation and editing.
  • Vidnoz: an AI-powered video editing tool that simplifies the video creation process.

Voice and Music

  • ElevenLabs: AI-generated speech, providing realistic voice cloning and synthesis.
  • Suno: AI-powered music tool.

Course Content Design

  • Magic School AI: interactive AI-powered educational tool for teachers and students.
  • Khanmigo: AI tutor and educational assistant developed by Khan Academy.
  • Gatekeep: AI tool to generate personalized videos from prompt.

Assignments and Grading

  • Quizlet: AI-driven tool providing various study modes such as flashcards, games, and quizzes.
  • GradeScope: a tool for administering and grading student work.
  • QuillBot: an AI-powered tool that supports functions like paraphrasing, grammar checking, plagiarism checking, AI detection, summarizing, and citation generation.
  • Turnitin: plagiarism detection service used by educators to check for originality in students' papers.

Literature Review and Management

  • Consensus: AI site to aggregate and synthesize scientific research findings.
  • SciSpace: AI-powered search and summarization tools.
  • ResearchRabbit: AI research tool offering publication discovery and literature mapping.
  • Zotero: bibliography tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research.

LLM Benchmarking

Local LLM

  • Anything LLM: AI model accepting uploaded documents and local LLMs.
  • LM Studio: collection of local LLMs.
  • Huggingface: list of pre-trained machine learning models.

Additional Tool Sites

If you do not find an AI tool to fit your needs above, try one of these sites, which provide details on even more options.

  • Toolify: a comprehensive directory for AI tools with monthly web traffic ranking.
  • There’s An AI For That: a searchable database of AI tools organized by task and category.

 

Last Updated on July 26, 2025