Generative AI Product Tracker
Ithaka S+R’s Generative AI Product Tracker lists generative AI products that are either marketed specifically towards postsecondary faculty or students or appear to be actively in use by postsecondary faculty or students for teaching, learning, or research activities. It does not currently include discipline-specific or AI detection tools.
Thanks to Gary Price of Library Journal’s infoDOCKET for invaluable help keeping track of new product releases.
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NOTE: The tracker is being less frequently updated during the summer of 2025 while we undertake more comprehensive revisions/rethinking of the tracker behind the scenes.
Table of Contents
Research Workflow Tools
General Purpose Tools
Name | Purchasing Model | Description | Key Features | Pros | Limitations | Comments | Entry Last Updated |
Users charged for “model inference and customization”, see here for details | A service that offers a choice of foundational models through a single API along with capabilities for users to build GenAI applications. “Using Amazon Bedrock, you can easily experiment with and evaluate top FMs for your use case, privately customize them with your data using techniques such as fine-tuning and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and build agents that execute tasks using your enterprise systems and data sources.” | See here for a list of foundational models that Amazon Bedrock supports. | Aug 21 2024 | ||||
See Amazon Bedrock | Family of foundational models exclusive to Amazon Bedrock. Family includes text generation, image generation, and multimodal search models. | Scroll down for demos | Aug 21 2024 | ||||
“You deploy and run Amplify GenAI yourself in your own Amazon Web Services account. You pay for the Amazon Web Services costs and the token costs for the models you use” | “Open source enterprise GenAI platform for organizations” Now being used across Vanderbilt University: Built by team at Vanderbilt University, started with MIT-licensed Chatbot-UI. | Choose which model providers you use (from Anthropic, OpenAI, etc), build your own assistants, integrate your data, share across your organization | Privacy of your data determined by your organization’s agreement with Amazon Web Services and with model providers | Nov 27 2024 | |||
AI features integrated into Apple products (iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and further updated versions after this), ChatGPT integrated into Apple’s Siri and writing tools | See here for more on features (Math Notes, Smart Script) that could have uses in higher ed, especially for students iOS 18.4 update, March 2025, with new AI features, including “Sketch” | Axios overview + evaluation, Sept 2024 Axios analysis of Apple Intelligence data privacy policy, Dec 2024 | Apr 1 2025 | ||||
Pricing - Free/Plus/Pro tiers | LLM-powered chat. Release of GPT 4.5 announced Feb 2025 GPT 4.1 available in the API as of April 2025; excels at coding and instruction following | Plugins available with ChatGPT Plus. Enterprise features listed here. As of May 2024, GPT-4o “accepts as input any combination of text, audio, image, and video and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs.” 4o image generation (March 2025) creates photorealistic images, can take image input and transform, etc. Preview of o1 model (Sept 2024 release) designed for complex reasoning ChatGPT web search integrated as of Oct 2024. As of Dec 2024, Plus and Pro users have access to Sora (video generation) “Deep Research” Agent announced Feb 2025, limited queries per month for paid subscribers | Data privacy concerns with GPT-4o: WIRED article, July 2024 Ranked highest for producing copyrighted outputs by Patronus AI’s CopyrightCatcher | GPT-4 received a 48/100 score on Stanford HAI’s Transparency Index; see full results here. As of Nov 2023, users (Plus and Enterprise) can create GPTs, versions of ChatGPT for specific purposes (no coding required). Jan 2023 GPT Store opened. Note that tools listed below in this tracker (e.g. Consensus, ScholarAI, Scispace) have GPTs available in OpenAI’s store. Mixed review of GPT-4o’s release in the NY Times, May 2024 GPT-4o System Card, safety assessment What OpenAI Knows About You: details on data policies, Dec 2024 Open AI’s ‘deep research’ tool: is it useful for Scientists? Nature, Feb 2025 Review of deep research tools from OpenAI and Google, Axios, Feb 2025 Study mode launched July 2025 | July 30 2025 | ||
Pricing: contact sales | “a version of ChatGPT built for universities to responsibly deploy AI to students, faculty, researchers, and campus operations.” Powered by GPT-4o | Can build custom GPTs and share within university workspaces Data analytics, web browsing, document summarization | Inputs not used to train OpenAI models | Example of California State University system offering staff, students, faculty access to ChatGPT Edu. Announced Feb 2025. | Feb 5 2024 | ||
Claude, Anthropic | Free with usage limitations, or upgrade to Claude Pro or Max: pricing. Claude for Education university-wide plan | LLM-powered chat. API available. Claude 3 family (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus models) released March 2024. Claude 3.5 Sonnet released June 2024. Claude for Education is a institution-wide plan for universities, with access for staff, faculty, and “discounted rates” for students | Good for: complex reasoning, creativity, dialogue, coding, content creation. Can upload files to be read, analyzed, summarized. Can analyze inputted data in large amounts Artifacts feature released with 3.5 Sonnet: a workspace alongside chat where AI-generated content can be edited and integrated into user’s work. See here for analysis of this feature. | User inputs not used to train models unless user opts in. See Jisc evaluation. Good for long prompts (up to 100,000 tokens, approx. 75,000 words - Claude 2) Uses second model “Constitutional AI” to improve safety of outputs. When evaluated (Claude 2.1) with Patronus AI’s CopyrightCatcher, produced less copyrighted outputs than other major LLMs | Claude 2 received a 36/100 score on Stanford HAI’s Transparency Index; see full results here. How Claude Works (zdnet, Sept 2024) As of April 2025, Northeastern U, Champlain College, and London School of Economics have announced partnerships for Claude to leverage Claude for Education | Apr 10 2025 | |
(Previously Bing Chat/Bing Chat Enterprise; rebranded 11/2023.) | Free version on microsoft.copilot.com Copilot Pro $20/user/month Available in sidebar in Microsoft Edge Available with educational licenses with commercial data protection | LLM-powered chat. Previously marketed as Bing Chat, and Bing is still a part of Copilot. Conversational search, summarized answers from web, ask follow up questions, use as a “creative tool” to generate content. Includes Image Creator: text to image generation. | Copilot (free version) provides access to GPT-4 and 4 Turbo except during peak times. Can create images, use on the web, access to plug-ins and GPTs Copilot Pro gives priority access to GPT-4 and 4 Turbo during peak times, can be used in number of Microsoft 365 apps, and create images faster with DALL-E 3 New features Oct 2024: Copilot Voice: speaks with users in a “natural” way, “providing not only information but encouragement, feedback and advice.” Copilot Vision: sees your screen, can converse with you about it. Media coverage in Wired. | In comparing Bing Chat, Bard, and ChatGPT, Nielsen Norman Group found that Bing Chat had lower trustworthiness and helpfulness scores than the other two (Oct. 2023). | Details on Microsoft’s data privacy policies, Nov 2024 MSN on Copilot failing to live up to hype, user dissatisfaction, Nov 2024 AI-based Copilot mode in Edge browser, July 2025 | Dec 10 2024 | |
Eligible licenses: E3, E5, Business Standard, Business Premium, A3, A5. $30/user/month (annual commitment) | LLM-powered (including GPT-4) integration for 365 apps (Teams, Word, Outlook, Powerpoint, Excel, and others). In late April 2024 Copilot will be available in OneDrive. | Example use cases: producing written content (text, emails in Outlook), summarization (including of email threads), data visualization, give commands to apps, etc. New education-specific features release June 2024: teaching content generation, student feedback generation, interactive practice experiences | User inputs not used to train models. See Jisc evaluation. | June 26 2024 | |||
Open source MIT license | R1 excels in math/logic | China-based startup Notable for developing models spending much less money than other major LLMs MIT Tech Review, Jan 2025: on development of R1, matching performance of GPT o1 Axios, Jan 2025: on development of V3 AI x Education blog, Jan 2025: Why educators should care about DeepSeek Secrets of DeepSeek revealed in landmark paper, Nature Sept 2025 | Sept 17 2025 | ||||
Free | “Goblin.tools is a collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult.” | Convert text (to more/less formal), judge tone of text, create task list, etc. | “Most tools will use AI technologies in the back-end to achieve their goals. Currently this includes OpenAI's models. As the tools and backend improve, the intent is to move to an open source alternative.” Maintained by a freelance software engineer. Mentioned by JISC as useful tool for neurodivergent learners. | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Google Gemini (formerly Bard) | Gemini Advanced $19.99/month, first month free. Gemini for Business can also be added to Workspace plan. See here for more details on Gemini users from work or school accounts. Students can sign up for Google One AI Premium (access to Gemini Advanced) by June 30 2025 for one free year. | Three multimodal models: Pro, Ultra,, and Nano (latter for mobile phones). All are pre-trained on text, image, audio, video, codebases. Gemini 2.0 announced Dec 2024. Includes agentic feature “Deep Research”: creates research plan then does online research and writes a report. More here. Gemini 2.5 Pro Models (2.5 Pro Experimental released March 2025), “thinking”/reasoning models | As of summer 2024, features include Gemini Live (conversant voice mode) and Gemini for Android able to interact with what is on screen (see Axios here and here) Access to OpenStax textbooks (OER publisher) | Google collects data from users’ Gemini conversations – for data protections for users through work or school accounts, see here. Aug 2024: increased personalization features means more access to personal data (Axios) | Basic overview of Gemini from TechCrunch Preprint study of Gemini capabilities in comparison to OpenAI GPT models What Google’s AI Knows About You: data policy details, Nov 2024 Review of deep research tools from OpenAI and Google, Axios, Feb 2025 | July 22 2025 | |
LLM-based chat, often noted for its “wit” “humor” and “rebellious streak” (About) Grok 4 latest model as of July 2025 | Controversies around outputs (example from summer 2025) | Created by xAI, founded by Elon Musk in 2023 | July 10 2025 | ||||
HuggingChat, Hugging Face | Free open source | LLM chat | Feb 2024 launched HuggingChat Assistants, which allows users to create their own customizable chatbots, rivals OpenAI’s GPTs | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Latimer, FutureSum.AI | Tiered plans: Free (up to 25 queries/day), Basic, Plus, For Organizations | “A large language model trained with diverse histories & inclusive voices… built to more accurately reflect the experience, culture and history of Black and brown people” | API available | Dec 10 2024 | |||
Lumo, Proton | Pricing: Free/Plus tiers | AI assistant that prioritizes privacy (does not record conversations, Proton cannot access chat history, chat not used for training) | Sept 25 2025 | ||||
Pricing – free, Pro, and Team plans | Multifunctional product that includes: chat with numerous models (GPT, Claude, etc. models), image generation, code explainer, article and YouTube summarizer, chat with websites and documents, and more. | See website for full list of numerous tools and features. For Educators, specifically advertises creating quizzes from online books or lecture videos. | Aug 21 2024 | ||||
Available through community license agreement | AI tool that runs on Meta’s Llama models. | Definition of open source AI is debatable. Meta and Zuckerberg advocate for open source AI, but Open Source initiative claims that Llama 2 (latest model at that time, July 2023) is not fully open source according to their definition. | Axios analysis of how Meta uses user data: your public content (on Facebook, Instagram) + your interactions with AI features are used for training. (Nov 2024) See Stanford HAI’s Transparency Index 2024 results here. Llama models integrated into Microsoft’s Azure platform and Windows through Meta-Microsoft partnership. | Apr 21 2025 | |||
“A comprehensive family of out-of-the box and customizable APIs and scenario-based services to help developers and organizations rapidly create intelligent, cutting-edge, market-ready, responsible solutions” - AI Services description. Access to OpenAI models, including GPT-4. | Conversational AI, content creation, data grounding (analyze your data). See Microsoft’s sample use cases here. | Mar 7 2024 | |||||
Optimized commercial models: Mistral Small, Mistral Large, Mistral Embed. Mistral Large: more powerful + costly than Small. Embed for semantic search and RAGs. Mistral Large 2 released July 2024. Access via la Plateforme (Mistral AI’s infrastructure in Europe) or Large is also available via Microsoft Azure. Can also try out Small or Large using Mistral’s free chat interface, Le Chat. | Small, Large, and Mixtral 8x7B are fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German and strong in code. Embed only English. Mistral Large 2 features here | Have open source models | France-based startup | July 29 2024 | |||
OLMo-7B, Allen Institute for AI | Free open source | LLM, About | Model, pre-training data, and training code all openly available on Hugging Face | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Pi, Inflection AI | As of March 2024, Inflection 2.5 hosted on Microsoft Azure, following Inflection AI co-founders moving to Microsoft. | Chatbot designed to be “empathetic, helpful, and safe”. Runs on in-house model, latest version Inflection-2.5 released March 2024 After co-founder departure March 2024, Inflection AI said it would pivot towards “AI studio business” | Has real-time web search capabilities As of March 2024, API will be available soon | Was available through desktop app, pi.ai website, iOS or Android, and as of March 2024, Inflection 2.5 hosted on Microsoft Azure, following Inflection AI co-founders moving to Microsoft. Claims Inflection-2.5 “approaches GPT-4’s performance, but used only 40% of the amount of compute for training.” | Created by startup Inflection AI. Co-founders include co-founder of LinkedIn and co-founder of DeepMind. Descriptions from Medium and ZDNet (prior to Microsoft connection) | Mar 27 2024 | |
Poe, Quora | $19.99/month, $200/year Enterprise version being prepared, waitlist here | Aims to be “web browser for AI chatbots,” a chatbot platform where you can access numerous models including GPT-4, Claude, Llama 2 | Paying one subscription fee to access multiple models vs subscribing to different models Web, desktop, and mobile apps. API available | Mar 7 2024 | |||
In development. Key architectural components already developed are published on website with paper and code available. | Aims to create a foundational model for science, for “numerical datasets and scientific machine learning tasks,” that scientists can then fine-tune for their specific applications. Foundational model will have strong knowledge for shared general concepts across science. | Potential to be more effective for specific scientific tasks than generalist models. | Created by team that includes scientists from different domains Announcement of Polymathic AI, October 2023.. | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Qwen models, Alibaba | Open source | Open source LLMs | Coverage of QwQ32B’s release in VentureBeat, March 2025 | Mar 7 2025 | |||
Will release code. On Hugging Face: dataset, alpha reward model, alpha language model. | LLM trained by UC Berkeley researchers with Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback | Introduced by UC Berkeley Researchers Nov 2023. | Mar 7 2024 | ||||
Code available for public non-commercial use. Free demo. | Open-source chatbot, trained by fine-tuning LLaMA model on 70k user-shared conversations collected from shareGPT.com. | Open source | Developed by a team from UC Berkeley, CMU, Stanford, and UC San Diego. Info on training recipe and initial performance evaluation on website. Dataset not publicly available and website says no plans to release it. Builds on Alpaca model from Stanford–public demo of Alpaca was taken down, but info on model is here. | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Pricing: team and enterprise plans available | AI startup company that created Palmyra LLMs and Knowledge Graph tool (RAG that can be grounded in your company’s data). Spent much less money on training because trained on synthetic data. | Inputted data not used to train their LLMs | Oct 24 2024 | ||||
Plans: Free, Pro, Team, Enterprise | Multimodal (text, images, code, etc.) chatbot with web search capabilities. | Access to several major AI models AI Agents (Smart, Genius, Create, Research) each tailored to different user needs. Can also create Custom Agents. | API available | Nov 21 2024 |
Discovery Tools
Name | Purchasing Model | Description | Key Features | Pros | Limitations | Comments | Entry Last Updated |
Ask R Discovery, Cactus Communications | Free and Prime tiers. Also includes access to Chat PDF | “AI-powered tool that simplifies your literature search. Its advanced algorithms browse through papers from trusted aggregators like CrossRef, Unpaywall, PubMed, PubMed Central, Open Alex, and top publishing houses like Springer Nature, Elsevier, JAMA, IOP, Taylor & Francis, NEJM, BMJ, Karger, SAGE, Emerald Publishing and more, to recommend the top scholarly articles in your field of research.” – FAQ | Generates summary from top-ranked sources; article summaries powered by Scholarcy, literature maps/similar papers, recommended readings | https://support.researcher.life/support/solutions/3000005033 - FAQ | Sept 25 2025 | ||
Pilot available on bioRxiv site, under “Automated Services” | Pilot in collaboration with ScienceCast that provides 3 AI-generated summaries for preprints on bioRxiv: one aimed at a general audience, one for a reader with some expertise in the subject, and one for a reader with high level expertise in the subject. | Summaries based on entire paper, not just abstract | Featured in Nature article Nov 2023 | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Free/Pro/Deep tiers | “AI-powered scientific search engine” to summarize areas of consensus in academic research, drawing from 200M+ peer reviewed research papers | Save searches and individual citations Summarizes relevant findings when you search Provides list of specific citations used to generate summary | Corpus integrates 3 major sources: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Consensus’ crawl of scholarly web Consensus GPT available in OpenAI GPT store (use Consensus’ search and database in ChatGPT’s interface). | Sept 25 2025 | |||
Dimensions Research GPT and Dimensions Research GPT Enterprise, Digital Science | Research GPT used through ChatGPT Plus or Enterprise Accounts. Research GPT Enterprise used through ChatGPT Enterprise account. | Ask research-related questions and draw from the Dimensions database in ChatGPT interface. Offers access to source for answers. | In Feb 2024 released Dimensions GPT and Dimensions GPT Enterprise, which followed up on the Dimensions AI Assistant beta from summer 2023. | Sept 25 2025 | |||
Dimensions, Digital Science | Available to Dimensions users, both free web app and enhanced Dimensions platform | Dimensions is research data and analytics platform that now incorporates AI features | AI features include AI Query (natural language search) and summarization | Also Research Workflow category | Sept 25 2025 | ||
AI features for EBSCOhost and EBSCO Discovery Service: “AI Insights” and “Natural Language Search” | AI Insights: highlights 2-5 key points from a full-text article. Results grounded in the article text using RAG method. Natural Language Search: uses AI to better parse the query into keyword and noun phrases | Sept 25 2025 | |||||
AI-powered research assistant | Semantic search, generate customizable research reports, automate screening and data extraction of systematic literature reviews, store sources in a library. | Developed by the non-profit product-driven research lab Ought. Also Research Workflow category | Sept 25 2025 | ||||
A platform with a series of agents to help accelerate scientific research, created by nonprofit FutureHouse | Agents are specialized for tasks such as information retrieval and synthesis, data analysis | About: https://www.aiwire.net/2025/07/03/futurehouse-launches-ai-platform-to-accelerate-scientific-discovery/ | Sept 25 2025 | ||||
*Note that both JSTOR and Ithaka S+R are a part of ITHAKA. | Free to JSTOR-participating institutions | GenAI research tool, which appears on content pages on JSTOR | Assess content relevance by surfacing key points and arguments, discover related topics and materials across JSTOR corpus, use natural language to search JSTOR or ask questions about what you are reading. | Description in Scholarly Kitchen, July 2024 Also research workflow tool | Sept 25 2025 | ||
Platform to help students and researchers understand complex academic literature Data for results coming from OpenAlex | Lit review assistance for researchers and help understanding methods across disciplines, assistance comprehending academic papers for students | Norway-based Startup Video demo of Keenious by CEO from AI Tool-up Tuesdays “The Implementation of Keenious at Carnegie Mellon University” (March 2024) | Sept 25 2025 | ||||
Different tiers depending on client type | Platform for showcasing research publications and making it accessible to wide audiences with reader-friendly summaries, now using AI to generate summaries. More here. | This platform already emphasized proving easy-to-understand summaries of research to the public–now they’re using AI to speed up the process. | Sept 25 2025 | ||||
AI-powered search engine. | Summary answer with links to cited sources. Reads uploaded files and images (only with paid plans) and can summarize, analyze, or translate. Deep Research feature generates research report. | Startup Interview with founder in EdTech Digest, Jan 2025 | Sept 25 2025 | ||||
Basic version free, Pro and Team versions for a fee | Discovery tool for academic articles that also generates visualizations of relationships between articles Database: Crossref, Semantic Scholar, Open Alex | Search and discovery, visualization through “literature map,” share with others, monitor when other papers on topic come out | Sept 25 2025 | ||||
Oxford University Press Discovery Assistant, delivered via the Silverchair Platform | Beta, included with any subscription or purchase of content on Oxford Academic | “An intuitive search interface that delivers highly relevant results accompanied by AI-generated summaries.” | Lists and links to most relevant content from Oxford Academic with AI-generated synopsis wherever abstract is available. Can ask follow-up prompts. | 20 Mar 2025 | |||
Papers, ReadCube, Digital Science | Pricing: Essentials and Pro tiers. | AI search and article comprehension tool | Chat with PDF, chat with set of references in your library (summaries, identify themes), natural language search (Dimensions database). | Description in Scholarly Kitchen, July 2024 | Sept 25 2025 | ||
Search is free, can upgrade to Pro for $20/month or $200/year (GPT-4, and ability to upload files and ask q’s about them). | Advertised primarily as a search engine with an emphasis on finding accurate information and giving the citation of where the info comes from. Founder refers to it as an “answer engine,” as rather than giving a list of links in which one searches for the answer to their search question, Perplexity generates an answer and then points to its sources. Pages (new May 2024) tool to help users create customizable articles to share content Deep Research (non-subscribers have limited access) Perplexity Labs (Pro subscribers) | Real time search engine, cites sources, emphasis on accuracy. Search focus: narrow down the sources used to generate the response (can search just within academic papers, or within Youtube, for example) Copilot features asks follow up questions to narrow down your question to get more accurate results Can upload files (plain text, code, PDF) as content to generate response. “Spaces” feature allows users to organize threads and invite others to collaborate | Wiley-Perplexity agreement May 2025 integrates Wiley’s content into Perplexity’s search | Startup. Mentioned in this July 2023 article among other LLMs for academia as a tool “providing accurate scientific information.” Suggests Perplexity is a tool with potential uses for higher ed, though not marketed exclusively for it. Interview in Forbes with cofounder. Reviewed in the NYTimes Feb 2024. Academic Language Experts webinar that includes a brief demo and overview of this product. | June 2 2025 | ||
Primo Research Assistant, ExLibris, Clarivate | GenAI-powered conversational discovery for patrons exploring library materials | Answers natural language queries with references based on top 5 abstracts, based on results found in Ex Libris Central Discovery Index. Search suggestions to help users expand topic. Non-English search and answer support. More on features here. | Launched in Sept 2024 after beta that started in June 2024. Developed in partnership with collaborators from the library community. Based on RAG architecture. As of Jan 2025, being used by University of Kentucky Libraries | Sept 25 2025 | |||
ProQuest Research Assistant, Clarivate | Available in beta in all ProQuest One and ProQuest Subject products. They are part of product interface and included at no extra cost. | Provides rich document-level insights and helps users create better search queries. Answers are grounded in ProQuest’s large and vetted collection of full text scholarly works. Powered by Clarivate’s Academic AI Platform | Provides summary answers to queries, and lists sources selected as references to generate answers. Users can access selected sources as well as a longer list of results. Enhanced features available Sept 2024: offers users deeper engagement with full-text documents. Helps users turn generic searches into Boolean queries. Generates synonyms and related terms. Gives contextual explanations for important concepts. Suggests research topics based on document. | Emphasis on transparency: provides a description for the user of what the tool did when it performed the search. | Note that this could also be listed in the Teaching and Learning category, as the press release (Feb 2024) mentions students as key users. Demo available here | Aug 5 2025 | |
Free | “Search for papers and authors, monitor new literature, visualize research landscapes, and collaborate with colleagues.” -Mission statement Search powered by PubMed and Semantic Scholar | Create “collections” of papers and receive recommendations (“Spotify for papers”), visualize networks of papers and authorship, collaborate on collections. Emphasis on visualization-based searching. Zotero integration | Start up Description of tool, Aug 2023 | Sept 25 2025 | |||
Free/Basic/Premium/Teams Pricing (scroll down) | “Scholar AI helps students and researchers summarize papers, generate study materials, and organize knowledge–all in one AI-powered workspace.” | Searches peer-reviewed papers, preprints, and global patents from sources such as PubMed, arXiv, and Google Scholar. Generate key takeaways and notes. Writing assistant. Create study materials - flashcards, quizzes, outlines. | Video demo - from 2023, may be dated now. Also applies to Research Workflow and Teaching and Learning categories. | Sept 26 2025 | |||
Scite, Research Solutions, Inc. | Pricing: $20/month for personal use. Custom pricing for organizations. | Smart Citations: Helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. Scite Assistant: uses generative AI to answer questions by querying their citation index Sources of full text articles and metadata listed here | Chrome extension Enterprise version can track how research from across the institution is being cited Zotero plugin available API available | Startup, bought by Research Solutions in Nov 2023. Demo video of scite by CEO Resource for technical details Data sources from FAQ University of Manchester Library’s overview of scite | Sept 26 2025 | ||
Scopus AI, Elsevier | Elsevier institutional subscription only | Scopus AI provides easy-to-read topic summaries based on trusted content from over 27,000 academic journals, from more than 7,000 publishers worldwide, with over 1.8 billion citations, and includes over 17 million author profiles. Using ChatGPT hosted on Microsoft Azure | Generates summaries of articles from 27,000 Elsevier academic journals. Search engine retrieves information then LLM summarizes (retrieval-augmented generation). New features as of May 2024: concept map relationships, SML reranker, reflection layer, export to SciVal Copilot feature (Aug 2024), “to optimize responses to highly specific or complex queries”. | Content is vetted and selected by an independent review board. Provides suggested follow-up questions and links to original research. Working towards eliminating inaccurate responses by 1) citing returned abstracts in responses 2) searching on articles published since 2018 3) low “temperature” (doesn’t often deviate from most plausible words in its response). [See Nature] Cites references in responses. Searches are grounded in curated Scopus content Data inputted is not used to train ChatGPT Adheres to GDPR to ensure user privacy | Aug 2023, alpha release for limited # of Scopus subscribers. Full release was in Jan 2024. Research paper on the tool See discussion in Nature, Aug. 2023. Analysis of ScopusAI, March 2025 | Mar 25 2025 | |
SearchGPT, OpenAI | Prototype; sign up for waitlist to be among users testing | AI-powered search engine with real-time access to internet. As of Oct 2024, search integrated into ChatGPT. | Links to relevant sources, ability to ask follow-up questions. | In release statement say they are partnering with publishers, “prominently citing and linking to them in searches”. | Report from The Verge, July 2024 | Oct 31 2024 | |
Semantic Scholar / Semantic Reader, built by Ai2 | Free | Free, AI-driven search and discovery tools, and open resources for the global research community. Semantic Reader tool auto highlights key points to facilitate skimming and includes annotation and highlighting tools. An AI-powered augmented scientific reading application. Features: citation cards, TLDR summaries, table of contents to navigate quickly between sections. | Provides 1 sentence TLDR for journal articles, AI-generated. Ask This Paper and Generative Term Understanding features both use generative AI. API access available Institutional log-ins available | Sources for their database listed here. Created by a Research & Development team within Allen Institute for AI, a non-profit research institute. | Sept 26 2025 | ||
Research AI available to Statista users | Research AI tool responds to user queries with insights based on Statista’s base of curated data. Statista is “a global data and business intelligence platform with an extensive collection of statistics, reports, and insights.” | How Statista is used academia: https://www.statista.com/business/industry-academia | Sept 26 2025 | ||||
Talpa AI search, Syndetics Unbound | Available for a limited to Syndetics Unbound subscribers | AI-powered library search; authoritative book data comes from Syndetics Unbound, Bowker and LibraryThing. Uses LLMs from ClaudeAI and OpenAI to power its search | Aug 6 2025 | ||||
Tiered pricing; free tier is 10 searches/month analyzing limited # of papers | AI-powered scientific research assistant. Provides list of relevant articles for conversational search query + summary. Draws from Semantic Scholar database. Searches abstracts and metadata in Free tier; Pro tier searches full text of open access and preprint articles. | Brainstorm with AI, generate custom tables, evaluate relevance of paper to your research, can track in-line citations back to source paper. | Sept 26 2025 | ||||
Web of Science Research Assistant, Clarivate | Conversational discovery tool for Web of Science Core Collection. “The new generative AI-powered tool helps researchers find key papers faster, handle complex research tasks and visualize connections. The chat interface combined with the Web of Science knowledge graph allows researchers to get more out of their interactions with 120 years of trusted publication and citation data in the Web of Science Core Collection™”- Sept 2024 release | Natural language, multilingual queries; concise overviews and commentaries, dynamic visualizations; guided research walk-throughs; context-specific prompts; expert identification for developing collaboration strategies. Provides summary answer to query, and summary of sources selected as references to generate answer. User can access selected sources as well as a longer list of results. User can choose between core search and Research Assistant Can see visualization of documents published over time for your topic, topic map of related/connected concepts, and top authors for your topic. Journal finder tool: enter your title and abstract to find relevant journals to publish in. Agentic AI features added in 2025: for lit review (April 2025) and research intelligence analytics (August 2025). | Emphasis on transparency: provides a description for the user of what the tool did when it performed the search. | Demo available here Powered by Clarivate’s Academic AI Platform, which announced expansion into agentic AI in April 2025. | Apr 9 2025 | ||
Pricing (can try for free with account) | Users can ask research questions that ZAIA gives responses to based on analysis of academic papers in Zendy database. Responses are linked to academic sources they come from. | Zendy’s database spans major disciplines in arts, humanities, social sciences, STEM Zendy has licensing agreements with major publishers for its database | Info on Zendy content and publisher partners here | Mar 28 2025 |
Teaching & Learning Tools
Name | Purchasing Model | Description | Key Features | Pros | Limitations | Comments | Entry Last Updated |
AI Coach, Edthena | Scroll down for pricing: https://www.edthena.com/ai-coach-for-teachers/ | AI-powered virtual coach that guides teachers through improving their instruction. Uses video recording of teacher’s class session to offer observation tips based on teacher’s goals. Created by Edthena, founded in 2011 by former science teacher, creates video-powered professional learning tools. | Teacher can add time-stamped comments to their video. Virtual coach provides relevant resources for further reference in relation to teacher’s focus area. | Sept 26 2025 | |||
AI Design Assistant and AI Conversation for Blackboard, Anthology | Exclusively available in Blackboard Learn Ultra, need to opt in | AI capabilities embedding in Blackboard to assist instructors and instructional designers | AI Design Assistant: Simplify course creation by creating assignments, assessments, assessment tools (rubrics etc.) based on your course content. Provides visuals/image recommendations AI Conversation: allows instructors to test learners’ knowledge via interactive conversation | Powered by Azure OpenAI service Blog post about Anthology AI tools at University of Leeds | Sept 26 2025 | ||
AI Marketplace for Canvas LMS, Instructure | Can join waitlist on site | Collection of AI tools and services that integrate into Canvas, through collaboration with partners such as Khan Academy and Praxis | Currently available tools listed here. | Sept 26 2025 | |||
AI Reader, McGraw Hill | Available through McGraw Hill platforms Connect and GO | A new AI feature within McGraw Hill’s existing eBook platform for student engagement with texts. Available for select eBooks | Allows students to highlight text and ask for explanations, simpler language, or a quick quiz. | Aug 22 2024 | |||
AI Tutor, TutorOcean | Setting up student account free; price of online tutoring varies. | Personalized learning assistance. | Answers questions through chat, creates personalized lesson plans and practice exams, tracks your progress, provides writing assistance. Also offer an AI Copilot teaching assistant. | Claims can be used for any subject or grade level, from elementary school to university levels. Can also connect you with a human tutor from TutorOcean when needed. | Sept 26 2025 | ||
Alethea, Clarivate | Subscription model, contact Clarivate here for more details (bottom of page) | “Boosting students’ engagement with course readings and nurturing learning skills. Alethea flips the script on the use of AI, guiding students to the core of their course readings, helping them distill takeaways and prepare for effective class discussion using pedagogic practices.” Powered by Clarivate’s Academic AI Platform | Guides students through reading assignments with chat-based interactions. Instructor Assistant uses AI to help instructors craft reading assignments. Integrates with LMSs. | Claims to prioritize students’ metacognition and critical thinking. | First program released by Clarivate’s Academia and Government Innovation Incubator. Demo on their website Description in Scholarly Kitchen, July 2024 | Aug 14 2025 | |
Priced by course size, see homepage | Instructors can build customized AI teaching assistant for their course. | Builds exclusively from your selected content, adaptable (multiple answer types, follow up questions, etc), available 24/7 to students, accessible (150+ languages, WCAG 2.1 compliant, etc.) | Toronto-based AI EdTech company. Founded by professors at University of Toronto. | Sept 26 2025 | |||
Automated Feedback, FeedbackFruits | Website has contact form to book demo | AI-powered feedback coach: gives automated feedback to student work. Includes interface to streamline grading process. | Customizable feedback criteria. Individual and class-wide learning analytics dashboard. Can integrate with FeedbackFruits’ other tools and with Turnitin. | Integrates into your native Learning Management System (e.g., Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Teams) | Existed before post-Nov 2022 GenAI hype, since Oct 2023 has a GenAI-powered feature (Automated Feedback Coach) | Sept 26 2025 | |
14-day free trial, then tiered pricing plans | AI-powered slide deck creation. | Choose slide deck (“smart slide templates”) and enter ideas (can be notes in messy form) and tool will adapt and turn users’ content into polished slide. Or use DesignerBot tool, which allows users to enter description of desired slide deck and have it generated automatically, then are able to make edits. Can also generate images for slides based on text descriptions. | Slack, DropBox, Powerpoint, monday.com integrations | Appears primarily aimed at industry, but also aims to appeal to education market through offering one year free to students. | Sept 26 2025 | ||
Pricing: Starter or Premium plans available | AI-powered learning and question generation for students and educators | Text to questions, summarize text/key points, create study guides, audio transcription, chat. Students can upload course content and create different kinds of study questions and easy-to-understand summaries from it. Chat system can be used for further questions like a personalized tutor. Instructors can use it for study guide creation. | Startup founded by Dr. Michael Danquah, who also founded RxCalculations (for pharmaceutical calculations) | Spet 26 2025 | |||
Basic (free) / Unlimited / Enterprise | Multi-feature teaching and learning platform | Access multiple AI models, build custom AI chatbots, Coach Mode, upload docs for personalized responses, collaboration with other users facilitated | Aug 15 2025 | ||||
In beta, integrated in Cengage platforms | AI assistant embedded in Cengage’s online platforms | AI-powered insights dashboard (new Fall 2025) Helps students understand course materials, gives tailored feedback, guides them towards versus gives them correct answers - Knowledgespeak description | Developed based on Cengage research on how AI can enhance learning | Aug 14 2025 | |||
Pricing personalized | “An AI platform for higher education that empowers departments to build no-code AI agents to streamline support and reduce workloads.” | Virtual TA for students and instructors, plus AI Agent Builder capability. Not only teaching and learning product; also includes tools for student success, administrative assistance, etc. Integrates with major LMSs. | Sept 8 2025 | ||||
“An ed-tech startup committed to empowering educators and content creators with AI-driven tools that help to create engaging, personalized, and inclusive learning experiences with ensuring compliance with relevant data security regulations.” | “Smart coursepack” and “smart videobook” generation, and Privacy FERPA Tool (anonymization tool, consent management system) that integrates with your LMS. More details here. | Startup | Sept 26 2025 | ||||
Adds new GenAI features to Coursera for Campus offerings in the areas of assessment creation, grading and evaluation, academic integrity | Features include assessment generator, suggested scores and feedback, personalized AI tutor for guided practice, peer review assistant, plagiarism detector | Press release, June 2024 | Sept 26 2025 | ||||
LMS that includes AI-powered features | Announcement of GenAI features in Brightspace, June 2024 | Sept 19 2025 | |||||
Contact for demo | Provides in-depth analysis of student feedback (includes course evaluations, open-ended survey responses, posts on external websites) to optimize student learning and success and help instructors and institutions deal with an increasing amount of student feedback data | Featured in Educause’s Applications of AI Demo Day | June 24 2024 | ||||
Free/Plus/Pro/Ultra | Generates materials for teachers (and other fields - consultants, marketing, sales). | Generate websites, slide decks, documents. Brainstorm teaching activity ideas. | Startup. Not exclusively marketed to teachers, but used as one of examples of an available AI tool for teachers by Jisc, for creating powerpoints presentations for lectures. | Sept 26 2025 | |||
Pricing (for institution or program). Can try free for a semester | Student engagement-focused;collaboration and discussion tools that integrate into major LMSs. Uses ChatGPT | Generate customizable assignments, prompts, rubrics. AI Rubric Coach features gives students initial feedback based on instructor’s rubric even before submission | Featured in Educause’s Applications of AI Demo Day | Sept 26 2025 | |||
Free and open (MIT license) | Smart Input AI tool accelerates the content creation process for educators, creating interactive content for courses. | AI analyzes input sources (course materials) and turns into H5P content types (quizzes, flashcards, videos, etc.). Supported by any LMS with LTI support (Blackboard, Canvas, Moodle, etc.) | Oct 11 2024 | ||||
IgniteAI, Instructure | A unified AI “conductor” embedded across Instructor products (e.g., Canvas) that streamlines educator workflows. Powered by AWS Bedrock | LLM-enabled assignments, auto-summarization of discussions, smart search, translation tools, automatic quiz/re-assessment generation. IgniteAgent "enables conversation-based completion of the even the most complex workflows within Instructure products” – available as add-on in 2026 | Instructure Press release, July 2025 | Aug 12 2025 | |||
Informer AI Assistants, Entrinsik | Customizable GenAI assistants, with teaching and learning and student success applications as suggested use cases | Upload your data and customize AI assistant. Suggested uses include instructors creating an assistant for their course or students uploading info about campus life to ask questions about it | Featured in Educause’s Applications of AI Demo Day | June 24 2024 | |||
Virtual Teaching Assistant created by Georgia Tech researcher Ashok Goel in 2016, now with new version that runs on ChatGPT. Answers students’ questions based on course material. | "We address the hallucination issue by citing the documents from which information is obtained and verifying grounding using textual entailment. To prevent Jill Watson from answering unsafe questions or generating unsafe responses, we employ a classifier for question relevance, toxic text filters, and prompts that promote politeness in response generation. Further, Jill Watson is designed to answer questions based on multiple large documents which makes it well-suited for intelligent textbooks." - paper | Article on reducing hallucinations, June 2023 | June 13 2024 | ||||
Jungle (formerly Wisdolia) | Free/Super Learner tiers | Converts lecture slides, textbook material, videos, diagrams, webpages etc. into flashcards and multiple choice/free response/case questions. | Students type responses to flashcards and get feedback to identify areas where there isn’t full comprehension. Works with pdfs, web pages, YouTube. | Start up, formerly Wisdolia. | Sept 26 2025 | ||
AI-powered assessment tools. | Custom AI assessment models trained on your institution’s marking data. Teachers can create their own assessment model, upload rubrics, get feedback on assignments. | Originally developed by academic entrepreneurs team that spun out of University of Surrey | Sept 26 2025 | ||||
Demo available, price of institutional subscription unclear on website. | GenAI-powered study tools that enhance Kortext’s Arcturus study platform. | Summarization of content, creating study notes, q&a tool to reinforce learning, translation, citation generation, access to collection of educational resources, place to organize study materials and facilitate collaboration. See also features of Kortext’s Arcturus platform for faculty (includes learning analytics dashboard), librarians, and students. | Developed through Kortext partnership with Microsoft. UK-based. | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Platform free to build your own content; pre-built courses offered for $25/semester | Offers customizable digital textbooks with autograded online homework,videos and a clicker, Can also build your own. | Developed by a project scientist and a professor at UCLA. Example of UCLA humanities course run using this tool, Dec 2024 | Dec 9 2024 | ||||
Learn Your Way, Google Labs | Interactive textbook experience, a “research experiment” available on Google Labs | Personalized representations of content: immersive text, quizzes, slide and narration, audio lesson, mind map. | Sept 26 2025 | ||||
Free plan available, then tiers with increasing capabilities and prices. Pricing here | Creates slideshow presentations Mainly used as Google Slides extension. Need to install MagicSlides from Google Workspace Marketplace to use | Can take text or even URL of a YouTube video and create a slidedeck about it | Discussed on Inside Higher Ed’s The Pulse Podcast, Nov 2023, in comparison to SlidesGPT. | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Mastering and MyLab (Pearson) | AI features available with Mastering and MyLab Fall 2024 | AI features for Mastering and MyLab digital learning platforms for students and instructors. | For students: personalized guidance,content summarization, explaining difficult concepts. For instructors: design courses, design homework, track student progress.. | July 24 2024 | |||
Beta. Four tiers of pricing (basic version free). Institutional subscription available | Instructors can create a chatbot (or choose from already created chatbots) tailored to their course curriculum. Originally K-12 focused, but potential applications for university level | Uses text, image, audio, video Chatbots can grade students Teacher can review how student used AI, see chat history | Do not need coding knowledge to create custom chatbots Mizou claims chatbots are reliable because trained on “reliable educational blogs, articles, and forums” and draw from teachers’ inputted course content Data privacy assurances: do not share student data with third parties, not using student inputs to train AI models, FERPA compliant | Startup | May 9 2024 | ||
Pilot program. New users (teachers, limit 3 per school) can test for free through Fall 2024 | Teacher-developed tool that gives students feedback on their writing under instructor guidance, and encourages students to reflect and respond to feedback | Instructors choose type of feedback and can benefit from feedback library of feedback types other instructors have chosen. | Integrates with common LMSs Presents itself as human-centered, not aiming to replace teachers but complement their work, and engage students in critical thinking about AI and their writing | March 21 2024 | |||
Integrates into different educational management systems | AI-powered learning analytics platforms that integrates into many different learning (and other types of) management systems, such as Canvas | GAI-powered chat that helps teachers make sense of analytics data about their students and form data-driven decisions | Mar 7 2024 | ||||
Offer student-paid or institutional-paid, individual licensing for departments, or campus-wide pricing options. Contact for quote. Also offer 20-min demos upon request. | “Our platform acts as a ‘Digital TA’, giving every student an AI writing tutor and every instructor an AI grading assistant.” | Packback Questions: student discussion platform with AI-based writing coaching and community moderation. Packback Deep Dives: Platform with AI writing tutor for students and AI grading assistant for instructors. Detects AI-generated content | Note: also applicable to Writing Tools category. Existed before post-Nov 2022 GenAI hype | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Channels subscription, from $7.99/month | AI tutor and AI components to learning with videos for students. This is an AI tool addition to Pearson+ Channels platform, which offers learning reinforcement tools for students as supplements to textbooks. | AI tutors offer “clear, step-to-step guidance for easy understanding of tough problems”. Can offer video solutions and similar questions for practice. Learning with interactive videos: can pause video and talk with chatbot to answer questions | Writeup in Campus Technology, Sept 2024 | Dec 13 2024 | |||
Create and share custom bots for specific tasks related to teaching and learning. Runs on GPT-4o. Developed by Computational Policy Lab at Harvard Kennedy School. | None of the entered information is used to train OpenAI models. Integrated into Canvas. | Oct 24 2024 | |||||
Institutions can contact for trial/pilot | AI features include AI tutor for students and AI copilot for instructors | Conversational tutor for students, also generates practice quizzes and study schedules. Writing tool also generates outlines, text, and revises writing. | In addition to offering detailed explanations to student questions, also refers students to (human) local tutors for further help. Can choose between models (from OpenAI, Claude, Google, Mistral) Differs from ChatGPT interaction in that when you ask it to solve a math problem, it will walk through and explain most steps but leave it to student to find the answer. | Featured in Educause’s Applications of AI Demo Day Data privacy statement (in FAQ): “All queries to the AI Tutor will be recorded and made available to the university. All queries will be sent to the respective AI Engine Models to be processed for their responses. The AI Engine Models will not use these queries to train their model and will respect the privacy of these queries. However, please do not send any private or sensitive information to the AI Tutor.” During Educause Demo Day, mentioned that they can keep all data on the institution's cloud for maximum privacy at higher cost. Institutions such as Georgia State are currently trialing. | June 24 2024 | ||
Free plan does not include ability to download your presentations; $2.50/download. Enterprise tier beta | Creates slideshow presentations Uses ChatGPT API Primarily operates through web browser | Works with Google Slides and Powerpoint Can generate slides from just a title | Generates speaker notes | Can’t download presentations without paying. Otherwise can only access slideshow through webpage link Can’t adjust number of slides directly so may end up with more than you wanted | Discussed on Inside Higher Ed’s The Pulse Podcast, Nov 2023, in comparison to MagicSlides. | Mar 7 2024 | |
AI-powered English speaking coach | For students: record voice and get feedback, speaking and writing test simulators to prepare forIELTS test, ‘Daily Stories’ and ‘Courses’ for practice For teachers: use to assess English language level of students, get proficiency reports, gives students way of practicing on their own | SmallTalk is an ed tech company founded in 2020 | June 14 2024 | ||||
Text to speech and related tools. In education context: making learning more accessible for students | Features include AI dubbing, AI video generator, AI transcription Integrates in Chrome and Edge. Apps for Apple and Android devices | June 14 2024 | |||||
Enables faculty to adopt open and affordable resources tailored to their syllabi. | Finds materials that match your course syllabi, then allows you to generate supplementary materials (quizzes, lecture slides, etc.) | Dec 12 2024 | |||||
Free version: 5 generators/day + limited access to all generators. Standard and professional versions ($) include more generations per day and access all existing and upcoming generators. Organizational license also available. See Pricing Plans on homepage. | Teaching assistant that generates resources for the classroom. Also has generation tools for those in administrative or leadership roles in higher ed sector. | Input your desired topic and app can generate a variety of teaching materials, such as lesson objectives, multiple choice quizzes, work schemes, class questions, rubrics, glossaries, etc. | Input from over 300 teachers during tool’s development. Created by Innovative Learning Technologies Ltd., based in London. | Aug 14 2025 | |||
Free trial with account. Institutional packages available. | Generate notes, flashcards, quizzes, and a chatbot based on your uploaded content (audio, video, PDF). Geared towards students. | Startup | Feb 25 2025 | ||||
Available as extension to Turnitin Feedback Studio | Provides an “educator-guided AI assistance and a composition experience for students” (press release, March 2025) | Space to draft writing assignments for students, and instructors can set guidelines for when AI use is acceptable. Optional AI writing assistant feature that instructor can choose to enable. Feature allows instructor to see students’ drafting process (pasted text, construction time, etc) | Mar 3 2025 | ||||
Free version with very limited number of questions can ask “Eva”; paid Plus version with higher quotas | AI tutor for students, that solves and answers questions on uploaded problems/documents | DocSolver tools allows users to upload documents and have problems/questions solved, then chat with “Eva” who offers explanations AI CourseMate (beta) allows users to upload documents/textbooks from a course then ask “Eva” questions about them, have “Eva” map out course structure, etc. | Chrome extension available App for iOS/Android available | Startup | Mar 11 2024 | ||
Free or subscription versions | Problem-solver. Upload assignments, crop the problem you wanted solved, and AI will solve it for you, show step by step solution, and offer explanation. | Says for any subject though all examples on homepage feature math | Startup with little backend information on their website | Mar 11 2024 | |||
Basic version free, Pro and Pro Premium with fees. Educators and Students have separate pricing schemas. | Unlimited AI-generated practice math problems and answers | Generates problems at different difficulty levels in different areas of mathematics. Can provide hints, as well as step-by-step solutions (for Pro). Can create printable problem worksheets/quizzes. | Could be used for teachers to generate practice problems or worksheets, or students on their own to practice. | Mar 7 2024 |
Research Workflow Tools
Name | Purchasing Model | Description | Key Features | Pros | Limitations | Comments | Entry Last Updated |
Add-on to Acrobat plans, $4.99/month added to annual paid monthly plan | Built into Reader and Acrobat, can produce summaries of and answer questions about PDFs and other docs | In addition to Q&A and summaries, can also reformat its outputs (into emails, reports, etc.), gives citations to show source of its outputs, can be used on Word or PowerPoint files Contract AI tool helps break down complex terms in contracts. Ability to chat across multiple documents at once | Adobe says does not train AI models on customer’s data, more here | Aug 14 2025 | |||
Advanced Data Analysis (formerly Code Interpreter), OpenAI | Available with ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise subscriptions | Writes and runs code in Python to do data analysis, create charts, solve math problems. Runs on GPT-4 | Upload/edit/download files, can write and run code, run data analysis, solve math problems, create files and webpages | Because it can write and run code, potential usefulness for people who do not code (as argued here) | Review from Prof. Ethan Mollick’s oneusefulthing.org. Overview from the NYTimes. Explanation of how to use this tool from MIT | Mar 7 2024 | |
AI Scientist, Sakana AI | “The first comprehensive system for fully automatic scientific discovery, enabling Foundation Models such as Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform research independently.” Built in collaboration with scientists from University of Oxford and University of British Columbia. | “The AI Scientist automates the entire research lifecycle, from generating novel research ideas, writing any necessary code, and executing experiments, to summarizing experimental results, visualizing them, and presenting its findings in a full scientific manuscript.” “We also introduce an automated peer review process to evaluate generated papers, write feedback, and further improve results. It is capable of evaluating generated papers with near-human accuracy.” | VentureBeat on the product, Aug 2024 The Decoder on the product, Aug 2024 | Aug 22 2024 | |||
Free Forever plan (5 credits to test) / Passionate Researcher plan / Enterprise plan | Multi-feature research assistant that has search and discovery, “smart library” for articles, generates literature reviews complete with line-by-line citations. In addition to academic researchers, also markets itself to medical professionals, consultants, and financial experts. | Integrates with popular reference management tools like Zotero and Mendeley. Data privacy and security - say no data is shared with third parties. | Their research paper database is made up of open databases including arXiv, PubMed, and Semantic Scholar. | Aug 14 2025 | |||
Basic version free, Plus version $7/month. | Summarizes wide variety of file types including audio and video. Powered by ChatGPT. | Mar 7 2024 | |||||
Basic version free then a few tiers with fees | Upload documents (PDF, PPT, TXT, etc.) to “chat” with them | Can install directly on ChatGPT. Zotero plugin Chrome extension | Mentioned in Forbes article on GAI tools for research | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Ai2 Asta, Allen Institute for AI | “An agentic ecosystem that advanced scientific discovery.” Includes Asta agents to aid researchers, AstaBench, and Asta resources. | Asta Agents: Find papers (formerly Ai2 PaperFinder), summarize literature, analyze data (coming soon as of Sept 2025) | Sept 24 2025 | ||||
Basic version free, or annual subscription of £169 | Tool for summarizing research articles from database of over 15,000 open papers. | Creates “bite size” text or audio summaries (using OpenAI). Aims to make complex articles comprehensible to non-academic audiences. Recommends you papers based on your interests | Tool with appeal to non-academic users, as it focuses on making research accessible and comprehensible for non-academic audiences. Web app version available where users can access summaries without creating an account.. | Startup, UK based | Dec 3 2024 | ||
Basic version free, Premium and Enterprise versions also available | Upload PDFs for quicker reading/comprehension experience and audio version | Listen to uploaded PDF (full text or key statements), highlight and take notes, English to Spanish translation | Emphasis on audio and other accessibility-oriented features. | Startup, UK based | Mar 20 2024 | ||
Plans: Free/Professional/Premium | Research Assistant for reading research and producing outputs | Query and summarize uploaded research papers. Generate and revise text. Data analysis Interview transcription | FAQ notes they have a data privacy agreement that keeps your data private; your data is not used for training. Data hosted in GDPR compliant servers. | Nov 21 2024 | |||
Free, Plus ($5/month) | Summarize, compare, ask questions about uploaded files. Can also chat with multiple files. Supports various different file types beyond pdfs. | In addition to summarizing/chatting with documents, also can translate them. Additional tools on their platform: AI Scholar (natural language search to find research papers), AI Writer, AI Detector. | Startup | Aug 14 2025 | |||
Pricing: Free or Executive plans | Comprehension tool and workflow assistant for your uploaded documents through queries, summaries, graphics analysis, etc. | Summarization, query docs, search across uploaded docs, get citations from docs, analyze graphics and images, translate docs. Supports numerous file types including Word docs, PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, Ebooks, text files, websites, etc. | Works in 90+ languages | Sept 11 2024 | |||
Open source, MIT license | Pre-print (April 2024); “an automation platform that guides interacting LLM agents through a complete stepwise research process, while programmatically back-tracing information flow and allowing human oversight and interactions.” | Can take annotated data and create hypotheses, research plans, analysis codes, generate and interpret results, and write paper. Can backtrack through steps to trace and verify process. | July 30 2024 | ||||
Discounted rate available for students, teachers, and academics at $18/month/user. Institutional/enterprise pricing also available. More here. | Qualitative research software with AI assistant | AI chat, to review/discuss your codebook and brainstorm subcodes. AI assistant can also apply codes to transcripts for your review. | Review of Delve tool (from 2020, before current AI Assistant was added) | Nov 8 2024 | |||
Free version with limits on file uploads; paid and business plans also available. | Chat with uploaded documents or collections of documents. Embed chattable files on your website. | API available Supports pdf, csv, txt and docx files. | FAQ claims can chat in multiple languages. Uploaded documents are private unless you choose to make them public. Stored through Amazon S3 cloud storage service. | Startup Powered by ChatGPT | Mar 7 2024 | ||
Closed beta launched Sept 2025. Will be available for purchase Q1 2026. ScienceDirect AI customers also testing until end of year and will have access as part of subscription as of Q1 2026. | Multi-function research assistant that relies on certified content database – “publisher neutral and include[s] subscription and Open Access content” as well as ScienceDirect and Scopus content. | Multi-function research assistant features include: brainstorm ideas, plan projects, review literature, find collaborators, discover funding opportunities. | Sept 17 2025 | ||||
EndNote 2025, Clarivate | Reference management solution with AI features | Features include “Key Takeaway: A new generative AI-powered tool to expedite research discovery by extracting key insights and takeaways from individual papers.” EndNote Research Assistant, another AI-powered feature, coming later in 2025. | Apr 25 2025 | ||||
Free, upgraded versions for $12 or $20/month respectively. | Tool to help understand complex academic articles. Free version runs on ChatGPT-3.5, most expensive version runs on GPT-4.. | Upload PDFs of academic articles and ask for explanations of sections. More expensive versions generate summaries, search through papers, summarize multiple docs at once. | Mar 7 2024 | ||||
14 day free trial, then monthly or annual fee. Academic and Professional versions (40% discount for Academic), each has Basic and Pro options. | Summarization and research tool. | Keyword extraction and definition, semantic and query-based search within and across documents, summarisation of entire documents and sections within them. Chrome extension available | Only support English language files and documents (as of September 2023). | Include 3 use case examples on their website, one is Academic Writing. | Mar 7 2024 | ||
Some features can try on website for free (unclear what pricing is later), others ask you to sign up for waitlist | Manuscript feedback, search and discovery, generates summaries from search results, tracks trends in research field | Note: several of this product’s capabilities (search engine, detecting trends) would also make it well placed in Discovery section, above | Mar 7 2024 | ||||
Free starter plan up to 60 pgs processed, Pro version for $14.99/month | Upload documents then ask tool questions about it. Can summarize and create new writing for you based on the uploaded file. | Security: document data is not used to train their model, all data permanently deleted after 30 days. | Startup. Discussed in July 2023 NYTimes article. | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Illuminate, Google | Experimental tool, can try for free on website | Experimental tool that creates audio discussions based on research papers from arxiv.org. Objective is to make complex scientific papers more accessible and digestible. Q&A format in audio discussion, like listening to a podcast. | Can clarify intended audience (general audience, beginner, expert), the length/duration of generated audio discussion, and tone (casual, semi-professional, professional). Can view transcript of generating audio discussion. | Currently optimized for Computer Science but plans to expand. Users are currently permitted up to 5 audio generations/day. | Oct 30 2024 | ||
Enterprise subscription only. | A comprehensive platform for all your research processing: Smart search and a wide range of smart filters, reading list analysis, auto-generated summaries, autonomous extraction and systematizing of data. | Customizable workspace adaptable to range of disciplines Discovery and data analysis tools. | Bespoke algorithm that does not require ChatGPT Algorithm develops ‘specialization’ in researchers fields Allows users to upload/link to articles and data to be integrated into the workspace. Monitors PubMed and other OA sources and alerts user to new relevant content. | Video demo from AI Tool-up Tuesdays | Mar 7 2024 | ||
Free basic version, upgraded version also available for free | Analyze and visualize data | Chat to ask questions about and analyze data, generate data visualizations ChatGPT plugin called Chat With Your Data | When analyzing your data, executes Python code and shows you what it is doing for transparency | Data security - your data stored on user specific workspaces, when you delete data source all traces are deleted from their servers Runs on OpenAI and Anthropic Academic Language Experts webinar that includes a brief demo and overview of this product. | June 25 2024 | ||
Logically.app (formerly Afforai) | Free | Student ($4.99/month) | Professional ($9.99/month) | Unlimited ($19.99/month) (Discount available for annual subscriptions) | A bundled product suite featuring a reference manager, AI-powered file annotator, and document writer accessible through a single web platform. It leverages AI models including GPT-4o, Sonnet 3.7, and Gemini 2.0. | Reference manager (similar to Zotero); AI-powered file annotator; document writer with AI capabilities, including formatted bibliography creation | Mar 21 2025 | |||
“A tool for performing automatic, AI-assisted revisions of Manubot manuscripts.” | “The editor takes a human-centric approach to automating the writing process2: a person first writes the text, the LLM revises their work and then the author reviews the changes. The tool uses the version-control service GitHub to keep track of which portions of the text were contributed by the user and which by the model” - Nature, Aug 2024 | Aug 22 2024 | |||||
NotebookLM, Google | Experimental, try here | Virtual research assistant catered to the materials you upload. Helps more quickly understand and gather insights from your notes/data. Powered by Gemini 1.5 Pro. Can upload multimodal source materials to your notebook (YouTube public URLs, audio files, PDFs, Google docs and slides, websites, and more) | Summarize your notes, generate new ideas, translate your notes, ask questions about docs you’ve uploaded, find relevant info from other sources related to your notes, create presentations and reports from your notes. Audio overview transforms uploaded documents into a conversation between two AI moderators. Can share audio overview through public link. | Uploaded data not used to train other models or shared with third parties | Glossary of key terms, features update here New features update Sept 2024 - audio and video sources, sharing Audio Overviews MIT Tech Review on Audio Overview feature, Oct 2024 NotebookLM Detector: detects whether an audio file was generated by NotebookLM (note: this detector was not created by Google) | Oct 11 2024 | |
Notion (w/o AI) has free basic versions, with paid plus, enterprise, and business tiers. For AI add-on, $8-10/month/member. | All in one workspace for wikis, docs, and projects that now has AI add-on. | AI add-on can answer questions based on info in your stored content, generate drafts/summaries/insights, and autofill tables. | Your data not used for training AI models (they have agreement with their AI subprocessors for this). Privacy standards adhere to GDPR Free for students and teachers and discounts for schools. Unclear if this includes AI features. | Review from AI x Edu substack: “incredibly useful for teams of students working on projects, or individually for scheduling purposes, as it can create progress reports, summaries, and action items based on the information jotted in Notion workspaces.” | Mar 7 2024 | ||
Pricing here. Free version available for small teams | AI-powered solutions across your company’s docs, apps, and people MIT open source license | Connects to Slack, Google Drive, Github, Confluence, and many others, and local files Main features include direct Q&A with answers with source links, Intelligent Document Retrieval, and more | Detailed documentation on setup and a system overview Enterprise: can host on your own cloud or theirs | UC San Diego partnered with Onyx (formerly Danswer) to create their university’s custom AI platform, TritonGPT, highlighted in a S+R blog post | May 19 2025 | ||
AI research assistant for answering researcher queries. Retrieves from internet and arXiv corpus. | Ask questions, text summarization, paper recommendation, conversational follow-up, guides reseasrcher in clarifying query. | Aug 22 2024 | |||||
Free for 1 pdf upload + 500 questions per month. Pro/ultimate/enterprise versions with fee. Pricing here | Upload and query PDFs. Outside of more typical academic use cases of querying articles or books, also lists querying financial reports, user manuals, and legal documents among its use cases. | Chrome extension, Google Drive integration, Dropbox integration available Can take screenshot from pdf and ask questions directly (with Enterprise plan) Can chat with multiple pdfs at once OCR support, can chat with image-based pdfs Save your most frequent prompts in a library for reuse | Option for private document storage so that uploads don’t come into contact with their cloud storage, to ensure privacy Claims can read and chat in “any language” | Using GPT-3.5-turbo-16k, GPT-4 option (see here) | Mar 7 2024 | ||
Perlego’s Research Assistant | Included as part of Perlego subscription. Research Assistant is still in Beta | Perlego’s Research Assistant tool offers summarized responses to academic research questions that draw and cite from Perlego’s collection of 1.3 million academic and non-fiction titles. | Summary outputs include references to book titles. Can see a quote from the book, then can view more of book content as Perlego subscriber | Focus of tool is on referencing books, versus journal articles or papers as other tools do | Aug 14 2025 | ||
Free basic version or Plus version for $9.90/month | Multipurpose tool that works with your data in different ways Their description: “Powerdrill is built for bridging your data and AI. It provides the services and platform for no-code and one-stop integration of your data and OpenAI large language models (LLMs) for intelligent Q&As and ecosystem interaction.” | Chat based on your datasets (that advertises itself as more accurate than ChatGPT), no-code app builder, dataset sharing, advanced analytics, access to ChatGPT client tools w/o OpenAI account | Mentioned in Forbes article on GAI tools for research | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Student, Classroom, and Institution plans available; pricing here | Platform for student research workflow, now enhanced with generative AI | Core features are a browser plugin that allows students to annotate, track, and organize digital content. Also builds an outline based on your saved research content. Can reorganize research content in web app. GAI features assist with brainstorming, can ask for feedback/refine your output, can analyze your notes and suggest an intro, etc. See Pricing for clearer map of which AI features are available with each plan. | Note: could also apply to “Teaching and Learning” category; see use cases for educators. PowerNotes+ for institutions has ChatGPT integration. Can generate summaries of articles and assist with student writing. Integrates into LMSs and library systems. | Apr 19 2024 | |||
ReadCube Pro, Digital Science | Contact for demo | AI-powered expansion of ReadCube literature management and systematic review solutions. Leverages Dimensions database. | AI-assisted literature discovery, enhanced search algorithms, literature monitoring, “smart annotations” (AI-powered suggestions for key points and summarizes within PDFs). Integrates with Slack and Microsoft Teams | Oct 1 2024 | |||
Reliant Tabular, Reliant AI | Request demo from website | Data extraction tool. Based on Llama 3.1 + “other proprietary techniques”--more here | Startup | Sept 19 2024 | |||
Free, Personal ($9.99/month), academic institutional license ($8,000+/month) based on FTEs | Article summarization tool for uploaded docs | Browser extension available for Chrome and Edge Can create referenced summaries of articles that can be used to facilitate proper citations/summaries for insertion into papers. Creates links to open access versions of cited sources | User inputs not used to train models. See Jisc evaluation. | Does not work with any paywalled URLS | Startup Video demo from AI Tool-up Tuesdays | Mar 7 2024 | |
Science Pilot, LLMs4Europe Project | Collaboration (CrossLand, OpenAIRE, Athena Research Center, CNRS, CNR, BSC) to create LLM-based tools for researchers and policymakers. | Multilingual literature discovery, evidence synthesis, automated policy briefs in areas such as life sciences and social sciences. Connects to European Open Science Cloud. | Mar 25 2025 | ||||
ScienceDirect AI, Elsevier | Available for organizational subscription access. | Research tool that extracts information and summaries, grounded in ScienceDirect platform | “Ask ScienceDirect AI” (queries and summaries), “Reading Assistant” (chat with document), “Compare Experiments” (breaks down experiments in set of articles). See overview of features on infoDOCKET and from Elsevier. | Info is not used to train public models, data stored in protected environment (infoDOCKET) | Mar 12 2025 | ||
Basic version free, more advanced versions for individuals and teams also available for a fee. | Tool to help understand complex scientific articles. Search for science research papers within their database, or upload PDFs. Aims to accelerate literature review process. Data sources: OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, and “other trusted repositories.” | Gives summaries based on top 5 results. Can ask for summaries of specific aspects of results. Highlight text, equations, or tables to ask for simplified explanations. Google Chrome extension available. | Gives citations/sources when doing analysis/answering questions. | Founded 2015 as Typeset, rebranded in 2022. SciSpace GPT available in OpenAI’s GPT store. Academic Language Experts webinar that includes a brief demo and overview of this product. | July 15 2025 | ||
Provides summaries of uploaded text | Can extract key metadata and images from text, gives reading time estimation Chrome and Firefox extensions available | Mentioned in Forbes article on GAI tools for research | Mar 7 2024 | ||||
Pricing: Free, Pro, and Team tiers, + Enterprise option | Research and writing assistant | Comprehension/research assistant: extract info from a doc or set of docs (asking questions, summarizing). Writing assistant: highlight text and see relevant sources from internet, paraphrase, translate, AI autocomplete when writing, generate essay outlines, etc. Connected workspace for research team | Nov 6 2024 | ||||
WikiCrow, FutureHouse | Github page for PaperQA2 RAG model (Apache 2.0 license) | Wikicrow is an agent built on top of PaperQA2 (RAG model for scientific papers) that “produces summaries more accurate on average than actual articles on Wikipedia” – announcement Wikicrow.ai has WikiCrow-generated articles for genes in human genome | Open source code | Sept 27 2024 | |||
Free version then several tiers, pricing here. Most AI features included in free version | Zapier is a platform that connects your applications to automate workflows, with no coding knowledge needed. Now it is enhanced with AI features. | AI features: describe automating workflow you want in plain language and will receive a drafted plan for a “Zap” (the connected applications), add AI-generated notes to “Zaps”, create topic-specific chatbots. More here. | Mar 7 2024 | ||||
Need Zotero installed plus access to GPT4/ChatGPT Plus account + download their latest .xpi file from Github | Zotero plugin powered by GPT-4, answers questions based on papers in your library. | Compatible with Zotero 6, not yet with 7 | AGPL-3.0 license | Apr 30 2024 |
Writing Tools
Name | Purchasing Model | Description | Key Features | Pros | Limitations | Comments | Entry Last Updated |
DeepL Translator: Basic translator free, more advanced versions available at a fee. DeepL Write: beta version launched in January, free. | Offers two separate tools: a translator and writing assistant. Next-gen model released July 2024, available for Pro users, claims to outperform OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft LLMs in translation. | Translator translates inputted text or uploaded files. Writing assistant offers improvements on grammar, phrasing, tone, style, and word choice. | Mentioned here as a useful tool for researchers for whom English is not a native language for academic publishing purposes. | July 19 2024 | |||
Pricing: individual, team, and enterprise plans available | Language editing tool that offers revisions to writing. Works within Microsoft Word. | Features include simplify/clarify written content, change tone, translate to English, cleaning up transcribed content. Toolbar offers a number of specific types of revisions, such as reducing word count, enhancing fluency, making text more readable, etc. Highlight text, request revisions, and accept or reject. | Company has been creating professional editing software since 2009 Academic Language Experts webinar that includes a brief demo and overview of this product. | Aug 14 2025 | |||
AI features for Grammarly now available with Grammarly account. Free, Premium, Business, and Enterprise plans available. The plans with fees give more detailed writing assistance, see full feature comparison. | Communication/writing assistant. | Will generate writing based on prompts; revise writing for tone, clarity, and length; help generate ideas/brainstorm. Can input emails to ask it to draft responses. | User inputs may be used to train the model, according to Jisc evaluation in Sept 2023. | AI capabilities for Grammarly writing assistant, which was founded in 2009. Late August 2023 releasing new features geared towards allowing students to “augment–not replace–their critical thinking and communication skills,” including prompts for brainstorming, feedback on their writing, and auto-citations. Aug 2024 released Authorship tool that breaks down writing to determine if author or AI wrote it, if copied from another website, etc. Commentary from Anna Mills. | Sept 9 2024 | ||
Only plus (paid) version includes AI features. Individual and team plans available (pricing) | Highlights and proposes fixes for errors in users’ writing. Also highlights issues such as dense writing, too long sentences, etc., and rewrites. | Grammar correction, rephrase text, clarify writing (wordy phrases, passive voice), choose desired style/tone of writing | Only Plus (paid) version includes AI features. Desktop offline app does not. | June 21 2024 | |||
Free / Unlimited / Custom (for institutions) (Pricing) | Research and writing assistant. | Writing assistant: AI autocomplete, outline builder, improve writing through translate/simplify/explain features Suggested auto-citations, drawn from your uploaded PDFs and other sources. Generate from your uploaded files. Agentic AI Chat: understand and summarize your research papers and search for research | Startup | Aug 14 2025 | |||
Pricing. Can request a free trial. | A GenAI powered, web based, word processor | Chat with your chosen AI model about your writing. Uses AI for feedback on your draft, brainstorming ideas, rewriting, title ideas, plus other writing aids | Aug 14 2025 | ||||
Pricing, freemium | Research and writing assistant designed specifically for academic writing. | Sources finder, citation generator, plagiarism checker, AI detector, outline builder, AI-powered suggestions and drafting, paraphrasing, AI assistant/tutor. | Designed specifically for academic writing. | Only available as a web app. Currently supports English only. | Apr 30 2025 | ||
Paperpal, Cactus Communications | Pricing, Free or Prime tiers | AI academic writing assistant, with features to assist from ideation to submission. | Use on the web or via MS Word plug-in. Features include GenAI copilot, language/grammar correction, paraphrasing, pre-submission checks, plagiarism checker. | June 14 2024 | |||
Limited version free or upgrade to Premium. | Writing assistant | Paraphrasing tool, grammar checker, AI detector, AI humanizer, AI chat (generate ideas), translate, summarize text. Works in a variety of languages. | Aug 14 2025 | ||||
Rubriq (formerly Curie), American Journal Experts | Free version, individual premium version ($11.25/month), and group subscriptions available. | An AI-powered writing assistant designed specifically for academic papers. It provides intelligent suggestions, improves writing structure, enhances flow, and assists with citations to help you produce high-quality academic content. | Integrates into Microsoft Word. | Specifically designed for academic writing. Researcher’s writing is stored in personal workspace and not shared with 3rd parties. | April 22 2025 | ||
Trinka, Enago | Free version, Premium, Premium +, Enterprise | Advanced grammar and language AI tool for academic and technical writing | Grammar checker, paraphrasing tool, journal finder, AI content detector, academic phrasebank Install for Word, Chrome, Firefox, Edge…DocuMark tool (released May 2025) “guides students to verify and own their AI-assisted writing” | MS Word add ons and browser extensions | Does not use OpenAI GPT models; instead their “own proprietary patented AI technology for grammar corrections and suggestions.” | June 6 2025 | |
Basic version free, followed by tiered option prices. Business plan also available. | Writing assistant–paraphrases, corrects grammar, rewrites, and more. Also summarizes any text or YouTube video. | Appeal for non-native English speakers looking to write in English–can translate from several languages to English before editing the English text. | Integrates with Chrome, Edge, Google docs, and more. API available | Oct 24 2024 | |||
Writefull, Digital Science | Free for limited version, Premium has pricing plans. Offers group licenses for institutions, publishers, etc. | Edits academic and technical writing. Catered to the academic community, algorithms trained on technical scientific content (peer reviewed open access content). | In addition to language feedback offers a number of widgets: paraphrase, abstract generator, title generator, etc. Writefull for Overleaf (LaTeX editor) can paraphrase, revise, summarize, and explain text, released April 2024. | Because it is trained on academic and scientific writing, more likely to recognize technical, discipline-specific words, as well as revise writing using academic language. Creators claim it will work well across disciplines, as trained on texts from a wide variety of disciplines. | Developed as a writing assistant app about 10 years ago, then developed into version with AI capabilities later. Interview with applied linguist at Writefull. Writeful was acquired by Digital Science in Nov 2023. Video demo from AI Tool-up Tuesdays Analysis of Writefull’s “make concise” feature | Oct 11 2024 |
Coding Tools
Name | Purchasing Model | Description | Key Features | Pros | Limitations | Comments | Entry Last Updated |
Code Llama, Meta | Free for research and commercial use. | LLM that generates code and natural language about code, from both code and natural language prompts. Created by further training Llama 2 model on code-specific datasets. | 3 models: Code Llama Code Llama Python (specialized for Python) Code Llama Instruct (fine-tuned for understanding natural language instructions) As of Jan 2024 70B is newest version for all 3 of these models | Research paper from Meta. | Mar 7 2024 | ||
Beta enterprise release July 2023, individual release Sept. 2023 | Chat assistant to help users write code. | “Use GitHub Copilot Chat to learn new languages or frameworks, troubleshoot bugs, or get answers to coding questions in simple, natural language outputs.” Github Copilot in the CLI (beta) | User inputs not used to train models. See Jisc evaluation. | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Free limited version without an account. Plus and pro versions with enhanced features, including increased GPT-4 uses per day. Pricing here | Search engine optimized for developers and technical questions | Can use Phind Model (built on CodeLlama-34 B), GPT 3.5-Turbo, or GPT-4 Pair Programmer Mode - converses with you to help you build project Second search box to provide extra content to model (code, articles) for your search | Could also apply to “Discovery Tools” category, above Oct 2023 blog post announces that Phind Model exceeds GPT-4 in coding | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Overflow AI, Stack Overflow | Alpha launch of Overflow AI Search launched Sep. 2023. | GenAI-powered search of Stack Overflow’s public site. For Stack Overflow for Teams, Overflow AI will also include this enhanced search tool and “knowledge ingestion” (building knowledge bases for teams). | Search for public site and Teams, plus knowledge base-building for teams. Features for Teams version also includes Slack integration and Visual Studio Code extension. | Background on Search function. Note that this is not a tool for generating code but for coding assistance–developers have commonly relied on Stack Overflow’s knowledge base for coding help. News about recent increases in developers turning to GenAI tools rather than Slack Overflow for coding assistance. | Mar 7 2024 | ||
Qodo (formerly Codium) | Pricing for developer/teams/enterprise plans | AI-powered coding assistant | Numerous features including code behavior analysis, code review, bug detection, code auto-documentation, etc. | Startup | Nov 27 2024 | ||
Basic version free, Hacker and Pro versions with a fee. Can upgrade plans with add-ons for additional fees. | Code generator and coding assistant | Generate code, auto-complete code, edit/debug code, “explain” code/chat with code generator. Supports 16 programming languages, but performs best with Python and JavaScript. | In Oct 2023, released their language model as open source on Hugging Face. Announcement. | FAQ says Replit’s outputs come from LLMs trained on publicly available code tuned by Replit. | Mar 7 2024 | ||
Based on number of tokens needed for the model to perform the operation. | Code generator powered by GPT-3. Claims it can generate code in over 40 programming languages based on human description. Can also find errors in code. | Website is sparse. Powered on older version of ChatGPT. Does not present itself as being as well-developed as other coding tools. | Start up | Mar 7 2024 | |||
StarCoder and StarCoderBase | Publicly available under OpenRAIL license | Code LLM for code autocompletion, modification, explanation. Developed by BigCode community Trained on permissively licensed data from GitHub | Supports numerous coding languages, see paper | Research paper (Dec 2023) More info: Hugging Face blog, Clarifai, NVIDIA | May 9 2024 | ||
Short code completions free. Pro version allows for longer code completion and natural language to code completion. Enterprise version also available. Info here. | Code generator and coding assistant | Auto-completes code, generates code based on natural language (latter only available with Pro). Full list of IDEs and languages supported here. | Data is not stored or read by anyone else. Read more here and here. Can control whether Tabnine trains on your code or not. | Trained exclusively on permissive open-source repositories (noted on homepage) | Mar 7 2024 |
Image Generation Tools
Name | Purchasing Model | Description | Key Features | Pros | Limitations | Comments | Entry Last Updated |
Pricing here | Text-to-image, text to video, text to vector, image to video, remix images on a board (beta), scene to image (beta), etc. Access via Firefly web app or Firefly-powered features in Adobe apps (Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe Express, Adobe Stock, more possible in future). | Image generation, generative fill, add styles/textures to text, generative recolor, sketch to image, generate image from 3D scene. | Trained on Adobe Stock images + openly licensed and public domain content (see FAQ here). User inputs not used to train models. See Jisc evaluation. May 2024: Adobe codified pledge to not train AI on customer data | May 1 2025 | |||
Basic free version or a few tiers with fees. Pricing | Text to image generation | 3 primary modes of image: art, drawing, photo | Intended to be user friendly and accessible | Mar 7 2024 | |||
DALL-E 2: Use it through purchased credits, after creating an account. DALL-E 3 built natively on ChatGPT. | Text-to-image generation. | Image generation, outpainting (expanding images), inpainting (making edits to existing images), variation (creating variations of an original image). | Mar 7 2024 | ||||
Free with account | Text to image generation. Uses Emu, Meta’s image foundation model. | Concerns over historical inaccuracy and bias in outputs | Overview from when released in Dec 2023 | Apr 18 2024 | |||
Subscription plans, Basic $10/month | Text-to-image generation. | Prof Ethan Mollick says here that Midjourney has lowest learning curve and best quality images. | Need to have Discord account (free): access to Midjourney bot is through Discord for web browser, desktop app, or mobile app. Quick start guide. | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Free trial credits for 7 days, then tiers with fees: pricing | Image generation, as well as creating videos from images | Image to video, AI filters, sketch to image, remove background, etc. | Apr 9 2025 | ||||
Basic version free, then a few tiers with fees + an enterprise version. Pricing here | Number of different tools that include text to image and text to video. | Mentioned in Cornell University’s guidelines on AI in research | Mar 7 2024 | ||||
Download or use on the web via DreamStudio or Clipdrop. DreamStudio and Clipdrop have some free credits, after that purchase credits. | Text-to-image generator. | Open source. | Guide to using Stable Diffusion. Prof. Ethan Mollick says here it can produce great results but takes time to learn to craft prompts properly. Stable Diffusion 2 received a 47/100 score on Stanford HAI’s Transparency Index; see full results here. | Mar 7 2024 |
Other
Name | Purchasing Model | Description | Key Features | Pros | Limitations | Comments | Entry Last Updated |
Currently “experimental and free” | AI features for Arc web browser OpenAI and Anthropic subprocessors | Ask question about webpage, preview (brief summary of webpage without clicking link to it), renames tabs and downloads for shorter and “tidier” titles, “ask ChatGPT function” (requires ChatGPT account). | Shares data with OpenAI and Anthropic, see privacy policy. “Ask ChatGPT” function requires ChatGPT account. | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Basic version free, Premium with fee | AI assistant for Brave web browser Basic version gives access to Llama 2, Premium to Claude Instant and will add on different models. | Summarize, translate, rewrite webpages; answer questions about content | Privacy-focused. No account or login needed, chat conversations not recorded, inputs not used to train model | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Free | For testing out and comparing different LLMs. “An open crowdsourced platform to collect human feedback and evaluate LLMs under real-world scenarios” – About us | Chat with an LLM of your choice, compare anonymous LLMs (ask questions and compare responses until you identify a winner), see Leaderboard for performance scores. | Created through collaboration between LMSYS and SkyLab (UC Berkeley) | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Pricing: Access to Hub is (forever) free. Pro and Enterprise options available for a fee. | Platform for users to build and share Machine Learning (ML) models and datasets. Also has ML demos and offers support to users. | The Hub hosts: code repositories, web apps for demos, models, and datasets. | Providing access to models based on open source code to users, for free and state on website pricing that it will remain free. Esp. useful for those building tools. Championing open source AI and collaborative ML building. | French-American company, exists since 2016. See HuggingChat in general purpose tools, above | Mar 7 2024 | ||
Pricing structured depending on how many users, what context employing chatbot etc. | GenAI-powered conversational chatbots, aimed at higher ed, healthcare, and government contexts Geared towards student success- recruitment and enrollment | Claim inputted data not used to train OpenAI models | Used by 2 academic libraries in Canada for reference chatbot services | Sept 18 2025 | |||
Free | Not-for-profit organization with various large-scale machine learning models, tools, and datasets free and available to the public. List is here. | Open source and free to public; their mission is to democratize access to datasets, code, and machine learning models. | Mar 7 2024 | ||||
Available for free through participating libraries. | AI-powered research assistant with a host of features, targeted to libraries. Does information retrieval and a variety of creative tasks. | 500 subject-specific “channels,” Q&A (including answering questions about your library), summarizing, translating, creative tasks (generating games, art, story ideas). See homepage for full extensive list. | See Privacy statement (both pros and cons), on personal information they collect and certain security assurances, though also say cannot fully guarantee security. | Affiliated with Pronunciator LLC. | Mar 7 2024 | ||
Seamless Communication, Meta | Models publicly released on Hugging Face and Github | Suite of models that enable real-time translation, speech and text, inputs and outputs in nearly 100 different languages. Preserves vocal style, prosody, and emotion of speaker’s voice. | Release announcement and description on VentureBeat | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Whisper, OpenAI | MIT open source license, Github | Speech recognition and transcription | Able to distinguish accents, background noise, and technical language Supports several languages, and can translate from those languages to English | Mar 7 2024 | |||
Available to ChatGPT Plus users | Giving ChatGPT access “to powerful computation, accurate math, curated knowledge, real-time data and visualization through Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Language” | Announcement, March 2023. | Mar 7 2024 |