The Best AI Tools.

Introduction

Text-to-text, text-to-image, text-to-video. From acquiring knowledge to managing knowledge to creating text, speech, video and general reasoning. AI is changing so much, so rapidly. A true advancement of humanity.

It’s crazy.

This post will try to collect and keep track of the coolest AI tools around. I will update this list from time to time. Feel fee to ping me if you got a recommendation!

B2B AI Tools

• OpenAI - The Grandfather of LLMs. Use it. The Mobile App is especially cool!
• Notebook LLM - Understands you content, can summarize it and even create podcasts. From Google.
• Perplexity - Like Google. But AI.
• Claude - Like chatGPT. Less known, but sometimes superior.
• Gemini 2.0 - Like chatGPT. But from Google. The new version caught up. You can use it for free.
• HeyGen. Translate and create AI videos featuring a copy of yourself. Crazy.
• ChatBox. UI for accessing multiple models locally. My default LLM interface right now.

AI Tools for Programmers

• Perplexity - Code completion on steroids.
• Ollama - Like Debian, but manages AI models locally. Cool!
• SambaNova Cloud - Cloud hosted LLM models. Designed their own chips. Really fast.
• Cursor - Next Generation Code Editor that understands code and can create whole applications.
• Zed - Next Generation Code Editor. Really well integrated with LLMs. understands code and can create whole applications.
• Aider - Command line tool that understands your codebase and can write code for you. Open Source.
• Grok - Yet another model. A lot less restrictive than other models when it comes to difficult topics. API is compatible with OpenAI. Worth a try!
• MiniMax - A Chinese Model with a huge context window (4M tokens, multiple Harry Potter books as of 2025-01-15). It’s also available over here: https://www.hailuo.ai/

AI Tools for Image Generation

• Midjourney - Midjourney. The reference when it comes to image generation.

AI Tools for Video Generation

• Runway - Video Generation
• Veo 2 - Video Generation By Google (some say it is the best tool)

Low Level AI Toolchain

• Claude - Great API and sometimes better than ChatGPT for coding and text summaries.