Introduction

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the way we live and work. a16z, a renowned venture capital firm, has put together a list of some of the most powerful AI tools that you can use today. This blog post will break them down into categories, and help you to find the tool that best meets your needs:

General Assistance

  • Perplexity: AI-powered search engine and research assistant.

  • Claude (Anthropic): General chatbot for projects and sharing work.

  • ChatGPT: A well-known chatbot, with a mention of its "Advanced Voice Mode."

Get Work Done

  • Granola: AI notetaker that listens to your meetings and transcribes them into notes.

  • Wispr Flow: AI voice dictation that turns your speech into text in any app.

  • Gamma: AI for creating decks, documents and websites.

  • Adobe: Summarize and chat with PDF documents.

  • Cubby: AI workspace built for collaborative research.

  • Cora: AI email assistant that organizes your inbox and automates responses.

  • Lindy: AI tool for building agents to automate your workflows.

Build an Audience

  • Delphi: AI tool for generating text, voice, and video clones for chatting with your audience.

  • HeyGen: AI avatars to scale content production or translate your videos.

  • Argil: AI avatars for social media videos.

  • Overlap, Opus: AI for turning long-form videos into short clips.

  • Persona: AI agent builder for creators.

  • Captions: AI tool for auto captions and video editing.

Build a Product

  • Cursor: AI code editor that knows your codebase.

  • Replit: AI tool for creating apps and sites from natural language.

  • Anychat: AI tool to use any AI model in one place.

  • Codeium: AI-powered autocomplete for your code.

Get Creative

  • ElevenLabs: AI for creating realistic AI voices.

  • Suno, Udio: AI for creating songs and music from text prompts.

  • Midjourney, Ideogram, Playground: AI image generation tools.

  • Runway, Kling, Viggle: AI video generation.

  • Krea: AI creative canvas to make and enhance images and videos.

  • Photomroom: AI image editor for product photos and other visuals.

Learn or Grow

  • Rosebud: Interactive journal that utilizes AI for creating insights.

  • Good Inside: Parenting co-pilot that gives personalized support.

  • Ada Health: AI powered assessment of medical symptoms.

  • Ash: Personalized AI counselor/coach.

  • NotebookLM: Turn any document into an AI podcast.

  • Particle: AI news app that combines multiple sources into summarized articles.

Have Fun

  • Remix: Social app for creating and sharing AI images and videos.

  • Meta Imagine: AI for creating images of yourself, family, and friends in Meta apps.

  • Grok: A chatbot from xAI (use it here!)

  • Curio: AI powered toys for kids to talk to.

Conclusion

The AI revolution is well underway, and there are a growing range of AI tools available to users to help improve their lives. Consider this list as a starting point for your journey into the possibilities of Artificial intelligence.